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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have become increasingly important due to their state-of-the-art performance and ability to integrate multiple data modalities, such as text, images, and audio, to perform complex tasks with high…

Traditional recommender systems primarily rely on a single type of user-item interaction, such as item purchases or ratings, to predict user preferences. However, in real-world scenarios, users engage in a variety of behaviors, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kyungho Kim , Sunwoo Kim , Geon Lee , Jinhong Jung , Kijung Shin

The common multimodal recommendation pipeline involves (i) extracting multimodal features, (ii) refining their high-level representations to suit the recommendation task, (iii) optionally fusing all multimodal features, and (iv) predicting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Matteo Attimonelli , Danilo Danese , Angela Di Fazio , Daniele Malitesta , Claudio Pomo , Tommaso Di Noia

Multimodal recommendation systems utilize various types of information, including images and text, to enhance the effectiveness of recommendations. The key challenge is predicting user purchasing behavior from the available data. Current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ke Shi , Yan Zhang , Miao Zhang , Lifan Chen , Jiali Yi , Kui Xiao , Xiaoju Hou , Zhifei Li

Different from most conventional recommendation problems, sequential recommendation focuses on learning users' preferences by exploiting the internal order and dependency among the interacted items, which has received significant attention…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Liwei Pan , Weike Pan , Meiyan Wei , Hongzhi Yin , Zhong Ming

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

Traditional recommender systems heavily rely on ID features, which often encounter challenges related to cold-start and generalization. Modeling pre-extracted content features can mitigate these issues, but is still a suboptimal solution…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Xiuqi Deng , Lu Xu , Xiyao Li , Jinkai Yu , Erpeng Xue , Zhongyuan Wang , Di Zhang , Zhaojie Liu , Guorui Zhou , Yang Song , Na Mou , Shen Jiang , Han Li

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to improve the diversity of Top-N recommendations while maintaining accuracy. Our approach employs a user-centric pre-processing strategy aimed at exposing users to a wide array of content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Manel Slokom , Savvina Danil , Laura Hollink

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Recommender systems aim to provide item recommendations for users, and are usually faced with data sparsity problem (e.g., cold start) in real-world scenarios. Recently pre-trained models have shown their effectiveness in knowledge transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Zheni Zeng , Chaojun Xiao , Yuan Yao , Ruobing Xie , Zhiyuan Liu , Fen Lin , Leyu Lin , Maosong Sun

With the ever-growing volume of online information, recommender systems have been an effective strategy to overcome such information overload. The utility of recommender systems cannot be overstated, given its widespread adoption in many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Yi Tay

With the increasing development of e-commerce and online services, personalized recommendation systems have become crucial for enhancing user satisfaction and driving business revenue. Traditional sequential recommendation methods that rely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Kunzhe Song , Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Kai Zheng , Yaming Yang

As a paradigm that delves into the deep seated drivers of user behavior, motivation-based recommendation systems have emerged as a prominent research direction in the field of personalized information retrieval. Unlike traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yicheng Di

Multimodal recommendation has emerged as a mainstream paradigm, typically leveraging text and visual embeddings extracted from pre-trained models such as Sentence-BERT, Vision Transformers, and ResNet. This approach is founded on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yu Ye , Junchen Fu , Yu Song , Kaiwen Zheng , Joemon M. Jose

Multi-modal recommendation greatly enhances the performance of recommender systems by modeling the auxiliary information from multi-modality contents. Most existing multi-modal recommendation models primarily exploit multimedia information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xinglong Wu , Anfeng Huang , Hongwei Yang , Hui He , Yu Tai , Weizhe Zhang

In the real world, where information is abundant and diverse across different modalities, understanding and utilizing various data types to improve retrieval systems is a key focus of research. Multimodal composite retrieval integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Suyan Li , Fuxiang Huang , Lei Zhang

Influenced by the great success of deep learning in computer vision and language understanding, research in recommendation has shifted to inventing new recommender models based on neural networks. In recent years, we have witnessed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Le Wu , Xiangnan He , Xiang Wang , Kun Zhang , Meng Wang

The rise of generative models has driven significant advancements in recommender systems, leaving unique opportunities for enhancing users' personalized recommendations. This workshop serves as a platform for researchers to explore and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Wenjie Wang , Yang Zhang , Xinyu Lin , Fuli Feng , Weiwen Liu , Yong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yang Song , Xiangnan He

Conventional recommendation systems succeed in identifying relevant content but often fail to provide users with surprising or novel items. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) possess the world knowledge and multimodal understanding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haoting Wang , Jianling Wang , Hao Li , Fangjun Yi , Mengyu Fu , Youwei Zhang , Yifan Liu , Liang Liu , Minmin Chen , Ed H. Chi , Lichan Hong , Haokai Lu

Multimodal Recommender Systems aim to improve recommendation accuracy by integrating heterogeneous content, such as images and textual metadata. While effective, it remains unclear whether their gains stem from true multimodal understanding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Claudio Pomo , Matteo Attimonelli , Danilo Danese , Fedelucio Narducci , Tommaso Di Noia