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Complex natural language understanding modules in dialog systems have a richer understanding of user utterances, and thus are critical in providing a better user experience. However, these models are often created from scratch, for specific…

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Multimodal recommendation aims to enhance user preference modeling by leveraging rich item content such as images and text. Yet dominant systems fuse modalities in the spatial domain, obscuring the frequency structure of signals and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Wei Yang , Rui Zhong , Yiqun Chen , Shixuan Li , Heng Ping , Chi Lu , Peng Jiang

Opportunistic photo capture (e.g., slides, exhibits, or artifacts) is a common strategy for preserving information encountered in information-rich environments for later revisitation. While fast and minimally disruptive, such photo…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ashwin Ram , Aeneas Leon Sommer , Martin Schmitz , Jürgen Steimle

The user purchase behaviors are mainly influenced by their intentions (e.g., buying clothes for decoration, buying brushes for painting, etc.). Modeling a user's latent intention can significantly improve the performance of recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Guanfeng Liu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Victor S. Sheng

Understanding human perceptions presents a formidable multimodal challenge for computers, encompassing aspects such as sentiment tendencies and sense of humor. While various methods have recently been introduced to extract…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Hao Sun , Ziwei Niu , Xinyao Yu , Jiaqing Liu , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to predict the following item a user will interact with during an ongoing session. Most existing SBR models focus on designing sophisticated neural-based encoders to learn a session representation,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Minjin Choi , Hye-young Kim , Hyunsouk Cho , Jongwuk Lee

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) has recently advanced into the multimodal domain, where user-generated content often combines text and images. However, existing multimodal ABSA (MABSA) models struggle to filter noisy visual signals,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Adamu Lawan , Haruna Yunusa

Multimodal sentiment analysis has currently identified its significance in a variety of domains. For the purpose of sentiment analysis, different aspects of distinguishing modalities, which correspond to one target, are processed and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jiaqian Wang , Donghong Gu , Chi Yang , Yun Xue , Zhengxin Song , Haoliang Zhao , Luwei Xiao

To realize trajectory prediction, most previous methods adopt the parameter-based approach, which encodes all the seen past-future instance pairs into model parameters. However, in this way, the model parameters come from all seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Chenxin Xu , Weibo Mao , Wenjun Zhang , Siheng Chen

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success on complex multi-modal tasks. However, it remains insufficiently explored whether they exhibit $\textbf{modality preference}$, a tendency to favor one modality over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yu Zhang , Jinlong Ma , Yongshuai Hou , Xuefeng Bai , Kehai Chen , Yang Xiang , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

Current image generation systems produce high-quality images but struggle with ambiguous user prompts, making interpretation of actual user intentions difficult. Many users must modify their prompts several times to ensure the generated…

Grounded on pre-trained language models (PLMs), dense retrieval has been studied extensively on plain text. In contrast, there has been little research on retrieving data with multiple aspects using dense models. In the scenarios such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xiaojie Sun , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Xinyu Ma , Fan Yixing , Hongyu Shan , Qishen Zhang , Zhongyi Liu

Sequential recommender infers users' evolving psychological motivations from historical interactions to recommend the next preferred items. Most existing methods compress recent behaviors into a single vector and optimize it toward a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yicheng Di , Yuan Liu , Zhi Chen , Jingcai Guo

Understanding human intent in complex multi-turn interactions remains a fundamental challenge in human-computer interaction and behavioral analysis. While existing intent recognition datasets focus mainly on single utterances or simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shufang Lin , Muyang Chen , Xiabing Zhou , Rongrong Zhang , Dayou Zhang , Fangxin Wang

Multi-behavior sequential recommendation (MBSR) aims to learn the dynamic and heterogeneous interactions of users' multi-behavior sequences, so as to capture user preferences under target behavior for the next interacted item prediction.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruochen Yang , Xiaodong Li , Jiawei Sheng , Jiangxia Cao , Xinkui Lin , Shen Wang , Shuang Yang , Zhaojie Liu , Tingwen Liu

Learning from demonstrations is a common way for users to teach robots, but it is prone to spurious feature correlations. Recent work constructs state abstractions, i.e. visual representations containing task-relevant features, from…

In the landscape of contemporary recommender systems, user-item interactions are inherently dynamic and sequential, often characterized by various behaviors. Prior research has explored the modeling of user preferences through sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jingsong Su , Xuetao Ma , Mingming Li , Qiannan Zhu , Yu Guo

Emotion represents an essential aspect of human speech that is manifested in speech prosody. Speech, visual, and textual cues are complementary in human communication. In this paper, we study a hybrid fusion method, referred to as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Zexu Pan , Zhaojie Luo , Jichen Yang , Haizhou Li

Multimodal sentiment analysis benefits various applications such as human-computer interaction and recommendation systems. It aims to infer the users' bipolar ideas using visual, textual, and acoustic signals. Although researchers affirm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sana Rahmani , Saeid Hosseini , Raziyeh Zall , Mohammad Reza Kangavari , Sara Kamran , Wen Hua

In this paper, we propose a novel sequence-aware recommendation model. Our model utilizes self-attention mechanism to infer the item-item relationship from user's historical interactions. With self-attention, it is able to estimate the…

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