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Context-aware recommendation systems improve upon classical recommender systems by including, in the modelling, a user's behaviour. Research into context-aware recommendation systems has previously only considered the sequential ordering of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Mufhumudzi Muthivhi , Terence L. van Zyl , Hairong Wang

Recommendation systems have faced significant challenges in cold-start scenarios, where new items with a limited history of interaction need to be effectively recommended to users. Though multimodal data (e.g., images, text, audio, etc.)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Van-Khang Nguyen , Duc-Hoang Pham , Huy-Son Nguyen , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Hoang-Quynh Le , Duc-Trong Le

Accurate news representation is critical for news recommendation. Most of existing news representation methods learn news representations only from news texts while ignore the visual information in news like images. In fact, users may click…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

Modern recommender systems face critical challenges in handling information overload while addressing the inherent limitations of multimodal representation learning. Existing methods suffer from three fundamental limitations: (1) restricted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zheyu Chen , Jinfeng Xu , Hewei Wang , Shuo Yang , Zitong Wan , Haibo Hu

Multimodal recommendation aims to recommend user-preferred candidates based on her/his historically interacted items and associated multimodal information. Previous studies commonly employ an embed-and-retrieve paradigm: learning user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song , Weili Guan , Yuan-Fang Li , Liqiang Nie

This paper presents an open-source toolbox, MMRec for multimodal recommendation. MMRec simplifies and canonicalizes the process of implementing and comparing multimodal recommendation models. The objective of MMRec is to provide a unified…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Xin Zhou

Multimodal recommendation systems are increasingly popular for their potential to improve performance by integrating diverse data types. However, the actual benefits of this integration remain unclear, raising questions about when and how…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Hongyu Zhou , Yinan Zhang , Aixin Sun , Zhiqi Shen

Multimodal data has significantly advanced recommendation systems by integrating diverse information sources to model user preferences and item characteristics. However, these systems often struggle with redundant and irrelevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hui Wang , Jinghui Qin , Wushao Wen , Qingling Li , Shanshan Zhong , Zhongzhan Huang

Large language models have recently shown promise for multimodal recommendation, particularly with text and image inputs. Yet real-world recommendation signals extend far beyond these modalities. To reflect this, we formalize recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zijie Lei , Tao Feng , Zhigang Hua , Yan Xie , Guanyu Lin , Shuang Yang , Ge Liu , Jiaxuan You

Multimodal recommendation has emerged as an effective paradigm for enhancing collaborative filtering by incorporating heterogeneous content modalities. Existing multimodal recommenders predominantly focus on reinforcing cross-modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hao Zhan , Yihui Wang , Yonghui Yang , Danyang Yue , Yu Wang , Pengyang Shao , Fei Shen , Fei Liu , Le Wu

ID-based Recommender Systems (RecSys), where each item is assigned a unique identifier and subsequently converted into an embedding vector, have dominated the designing of RecSys. Though prevalent, such ID-based paradigm is not suitable for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Pengpeng Zhao , Qi Guo , Fajie Yuan , Xiaofang Zhou

This paper presents LightFusionRec, a novel lightweight cross-domain recommendation system that integrates DistilBERT for textual feature extraction and FastText for genre embedding. Important issues in recommendation systems, such as data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Vansh Kharidia , Dhruvi Paprunia , Prashasti Kanikar

Sequential recommendations have drawn significant attention in modeling the user's historical behaviors to predict the next item. With the booming development of multimodal data (e.g., image, text) on internet platforms, sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Changhong Li , Zhiqiang Guo

Generative recommendation models often struggle with two key challenges: (1) the superficial integration of collaborative signals, and (2) the decoupled fusion of multimodal features. These limitations hinder the creation of a truly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yuzhen Lin , Hongyi Chen , Xuanjing Chen , Shaowen Wang , Ivonne Xu , Dongming Jiang

Personalized recommendation serves as a ubiquitous channel for users to discover information tailored to their interests. However, traditional recommendation models primarily rely on unique IDs and categorical features for user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Qijiong Liu , Jieming Zhu , Yanting Yang , Quanyu Dai , Zhaocheng Du , Xiao-Ming Wu , Zhou Zhao , Rui Zhang , Zhenhua Dong

We propose HyMoERec, a novel sequential recommendation framework that addresses the limitations of uniform Position-wise Feed-Forward Networks in existing models. Current approaches treat all user interactions and items equally, overlooking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kunrong Li , Zhu Sun , Kwan Hui Lim

Micro-video recommendation aims to capture user preferences from the collaborative and context information of the interacted micro-videos, thereby predicting the appropriate videos. This target is often hindered by the inherent noise within…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinxin Dong , Haokai Ma , Yuze Zheng , Yongfu Zha , Yonghui Yang , Xiaodong Wang

Multimedia content is of predominance in the modern Web era. Investigating how users interact with multimodal items is a continuing concern within the rapid development of recommender systems. The majority of previous work focuses on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jinghao Zhang , Yanqiao Zhu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Shuhui Wang , Liang Wang

Session-based recommendation is devoted to characterizing preferences of anonymous users based on short sessions. Existing methods mostly focus on mining limited item co-occurrence patterns exposed by item ID within sessions, while ignoring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Fenglong Ma , Chenliang Li , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Nowadays, the recommendation systems are applied in the fields of e-commerce, video websites, social networking sites, etc., which bring great convenience to people's daily lives. The types of the information are diversified and abundant in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Junmei Lv , Bin Song , Jie Guo , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani