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Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in recommendation systems. However, the effective application of MLLMs to multimodal sequential recommendation remains unexplored: A)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Haoyu Wang , Yitong Wang , Jining Wang

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities for recommendation systems, though current approaches such as TALLRec face challenges in explainability and cold-start scenarios. We present ExplainRec, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bo Ma , LuYao Liu , ZeHua Hu , Simon Lau

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' future interactions by modeling collaborative filtering (CF) signals from historical behaviors of similar users or items. Traditional sequential recommenders predominantly rely on ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yingzhi He , Xiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Multi-interest recommendation has gained attention, especially in industrial retrieval stage. Unlike classical dual-tower methods, it generates multiple user representations instead of a single one to model comprehensive user interests.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Zhibo Wu , Yunfan Wu , Quan Liu , Lin Jiang , Ping Yang , Yao Hu

Acquiring valuable data from the rapidly expanding information on the internet has become a significant concern, and recommender systems have emerged as a widely used and effective tool for helping users discover items of interest. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Steven Hoi , Edith Ngai

Recommendation systems effectively guide users in locating their desired information within extensive content repositories. Generally, a recommendation model is optimized to enhance accuracy metrics from a user utility standpoint, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xu Huang , Jianxun Lian , Hao Wang , Defu Lian , Xing Xie

Multimodal recommendation is commonly framed as a feature fusion problem, where textual and visual signals are combined to better model user preference. However, the effectiveness of multimodal recommendation may depend not only on how…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ty Valencia , Burak Barlas , Varun Singhal , Ruchir Bhatia , Wei Yang

As one of the main solutions to the information overload problem, recommender systems are widely used in daily life. In the recent emerging micro-video recommendation scenario, micro-videos contain rich multimedia information, involving…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Breda Lim , Shubhi Bansal , Ahmed Buru , Kayla Manthey

The surge in multimedia content has led to the development of Multi-Modal Recommender Systems (MMRecs), which use diverse modalities such as text, images, videos, and audio for more personalized recommendations. However, MMRecs struggle…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hongji Li , Hanwen Du , Youhua Li , Junchen Fu , Chunxiao Li , Ziyi Zhuang , Jiakang Li , Yongxin Ni

Unsupervised pre-training has shown great success in skeleton-based action understanding recently. Existing works typically train separate modality-specific models, then integrate the multi-modal information for action understanding by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shengkai Sun , Daizong Liu , Jianfeng Dong , Xiaoye Qu , Junyu Gao , Xun Yang , Xun Wang , Meng Wang

The modeling of users' behaviors is crucial in modern recommendation systems. A lot of research focuses on modeling users' lifelong sequences, which can be extremely long and sometimes exceed thousands of items. These models use the target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kaiming Shen , Xichen Ding , Zixiang Zheng , Yuqi Gong , Qianqian Li , Zhongyi Liu , Guannan Zhang

Advanced recommender systems usually involve multiple domains (such as scenarios or categories) for various marketing strategies, and users interact with them to satisfy diverse demands. The goal of multi-domain recommendation (MDR) is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zixuan Xu , Penghui Wei , Shaoguo Liu , Weimin Zhang , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

The main idea of multimodal recommendation is the rational utilization of the item's multimodal information to improve the recommendation performance. Previous works directly integrate item multimodal features with item ID embeddings,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yan Zhou , Jie Guo , Hao Sun , Bin Song , Fei Richard Yu

Multimodal machine learning has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential for integrating information from multiple modalities to enhance learning and decision-making processes. However, it is commonly observed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Sahiti Yerramilli , Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli , Jonathan Francis , Eric Nyberg

We propose Meta-Prod2vec, a novel method to compute item similarities for recommendation that leverages existing item metadata. Such scenarios are frequently encountered in applications such as content recommendation, ad targeting and web…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Flavian Vasile , Elena Smirnova , Alexis Conneau

How to extract meaningful information in user historical behavior plays a crucial role in recommendation. User behavior sequence often contains multiple conceptually distinct items that belong to different item groups and the number of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Jiashu Zhao , Long Xia , Dawei Yin

The recommender system (RS) has been an integral toolkit of online services. They are equipped with various deep learning techniques to model user preference based on identifier and attribute information. With the emergence of multimedia…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Qidong Liu , Jiaxi Hu , Yutian Xiao , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingtong Gao , Wanyu Wang , Qing Li , Jiliang Tang

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

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been introduced into recommender systems (RSs), either to enhance traditional recommendation models (TRMs) or serve as recommendation backbones. However, existing LLM-based RSs often do not fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Bowen Zheng , Xiaolei Wang , Enze Liu , Xi Wang , Lu Hongyu , Yu Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Recent years witnessed several advances in developing multi-goal conversational recommender systems (MG-CRS) that can proactively attract users' interests and naturally lead user-engaged dialogues with multiple conversational goals and…

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