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Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict the subsequent behaviors of users by understanding their successive historical behaviors. Recently, some methods for SR are devoted to alleviating the data sparsity problem (i.e., limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ziyang Wang , Huoyu Liu , Wei Wei , Yue Hu , Xian-Ling Mao , Shaojian He , Rui Fang , Dangyang chen

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

Training multimodal models requires a large amount of labeled data. Active learning (AL) aim to reduce labeling costs. Most AL methods employ warm-start approaches, which rely on sufficient labeled data to train a well-calibrated model that…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Meng Shen , Yake Wei , Jianxiong Yin , Deepu Rajan , Di Hu , Simon See

Semi-supervised learning is a challenging problem which aims to construct a model by learning from a limited number of labeled examples. Numerous methods have been proposed to tackle this problem, with most focusing on utilizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Peng Tu , Yawen Huang , Rongrong Ji , Feng Zheng , Ling Shao

Multimedia recommendation has received much attention in recent years. It models user preferences based on both behavior information and item multimodal information. Though current GCN-based methods achieve notable success, they suffer from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Penghang Yu , Zhiyi Tan , Guanming Lu , Bing-Kun Bao

We study the problem of inferring substitutable and complementary items, which underpins applications such as alternative and follow-up purchase suggestions. Existing approaches typically learn from behavior-derived item-item associations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Junting Wang , Chenghuan Guo , Jiao Yang , Yanhui Guo , Hari Sundaram , Yan Gao

One primary topic of multimodal learning is to jointly incorporate heterogeneous information from different modalities. However most models often suffer from unsatisfactory multimodal cooperation which cannot jointly utilize all modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yake Wei , Ruoxuan Feng , Zihe Wang , Di Hu

Recently self supervised learning has seen explosive growth and use in variety of machine learning tasks because of its ability to avoid the cost of annotating large-scale datasets. This paper gives an overview for best self supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Naman Goyal

Session-based recommendation targets next-item prediction by exploiting user behaviors within a short time period. Compared with other recommendation paradigms, session-based recommendation suffers more from the problem of data sparsity due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xin Xia , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Yingxia Shao , Lizhen Cui

Multimodal recommendation combines the user historical behaviors with the modal features of items to capture the tangible user preferences, presenting superior performance compared to the conventional ID-based recommender systems. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuzhuo Dang , Xin Zhang , Zhiqiang Pan , Yuxiao Duan , Wanyu Chen , Fei Cai , Honghui Chen

We propose a meta-learning method for learning from multiple noisy annotators. In many applications such as crowdsourcing services, labels for supervised learning are given by multiple annotators. Since the annotators have different skills…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Taishi Nishiyama , Yasutoshi Ida , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Multimodal models often over-rely on dominant modalities, failing to achieve optimal performance. While prior work focuses on modifying training objectives or optimization procedures, data-centric solutions remain underexplored. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Seong-Hyeon Hwang , Soyoung Choi , Steven Euijong Whang

To overcome the imbalanced multimodal learning problem, where models prefer the training of specific modalities, existing methods propose to control the training of uni-modal encoders from different perspectives, taking the inter-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yake Wei , Siwei Li , Ruoxuan Feng , Di Hu

In many machine learning systems that jointly learn from multiple modalities, a core research question is to understand the nature of multimodal interactions: how modalities combine to provide new task-relevant information that was not…

The burgeoning presence of multimodal content-sharing platforms propels the development of personalized recommender systems. Previous works usually suffer from data sparsity and cold-start problems, and may fail to adequately explore…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Xu Guo , Tong Zhang , Fuyun Wang , Xudong Wang , Xiaoya Zhang , Xin Liu , Zhen Cui

While recommender systems with multi-modal item representations (image, audio, and text), have been widely explored, learning recommendations from multi-modal user interactions (e.g., clicks and speech) remains an open problem. We study the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Simone Borg Bruun , Krisztian Balog , Maria Maistro

Multimodal data plays a critical role in web-based recommendation systems, where information from diverse modalities such as vision and text enhances representation learning. However, real-world multimodal datasets often suffer from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yuan Li , Jun Hu , Jiaxin Jiang , Bryan Hooi , Bingsheng He

Employing clustering strategy to assign unlabeled target images with pseudo labels has become a trend for person re-identification (re-ID) algorithms in domain adaptation. A potential limitation of these clustering-based methods is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Suncheng Xiang , Yuzhuo Fu , Mengyuan Guan , Ting Liu

Recent years have witnessed growing interests in multimedia recommendation, which aims to predict whether a user will interact with an item with multimodal contents. Previous studies focus on modeling user-item interactions with multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jinghao Zhang , Yanqiao Zhu , Qiang Liu , Mengqi Zhang , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

In practical domains, high-dimensional data are usually associated with diverse semantic labels, whereas traditional feature selection methods are designed for single-label data. Moreover, existing multi-label methods encounter two main…

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