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Multi-behavior sequential recommendation aims to capture users' dynamic interests by modeling diverse types of user interactions over time. Although several studies have explored this setting, the recommendation performance remains…

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The rise of online multi-modal sharing platforms like TikTok and YouTube has enabled personalized recommender systems to incorporate multiple modalities (such as visual, textual, and acoustic) into user representations. However, addressing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yangqin Jiang , Lianghao Xia , Wei Wei , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin , Chao Huang

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

With the increasing multimedia information, multimodal recommendation has received extensive attention. It utilizes multimodal information to alleviate the data sparsity problem in recommendation systems, thus improving recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Hewei Wang , Edith C. -H. Ngai

In recent years, the rapid growth of online multimedia services, such as e-commerce platforms, has necessitated the development of personalised recommendation approaches that can encode diverse content about each item. Indeed, modern…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Zixuan Yi , Zijun Long , Iadh Ounis , Craig Macdonald , Richard Mccreadie

Multimodal recommendation systems (MMRS) have received considerable attention from the research community due to their ability to jointly utilize information from user behavior and product images and text. Previous research has two main…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Guojiao Lin , Zhen Meng , Dongjie Wang , Qingqing Long , Yuanchun Zhou , Meng Xiao

Leveraging information across diverse modalities is known to enhance performance on multimodal segmentation tasks. However, effectively fusing information from different modalities remains challenging due to the unique characteristics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Md Kaykobad Reza , Ashley Prater-Bennette , M. Salman Asif

Domain-specific adaptation is critical to maximizing the performance of pre-trained language models (PLMs) on one or multiple targeted tasks, especially under resource-constrained use cases, such as edge devices. However, existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Peter Schafhalter , Shun Liao , Yanqi Zhou , Chih-Kuan Yeh , Arun Kandoor , James Laudon

Multimodal learning has become a pivotal approach in developing robust learning models with applications spanning multimedia, robotics, large language models, and healthcare. The efficiency of multimodal systems is a critical concern, given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhe Gao , Jian Huang , Ting Li , Xueqin Wang

Multispectral pedestrian detection is capable of adapting to insufficient illumination conditions by leveraging color-thermal modalities. On the other hand, it is still lacking of in-depth insights on how to fuse the two modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Kailai Zhou , Linsen Chen , Xun Cao

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

The online emergence of multi-modal sharing platforms (eg, TikTok, Youtube) is powering personalized recommender systems to incorporate various modalities (eg, visual, textual and acoustic) into the latent user representations. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wei Wei , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chuxu Zhang

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

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

There is a rapidly-growing research interest in engaging users with multi-modal data for accurate user modeling on recommender systems. Existing multimedia recommenders have achieved substantial improvements by incorporating various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Dong Yao , Shengyu Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Jieming Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Rui Zhang , Xiaofei He , Fei Wu

New contributions in the field of iterative optimisation heuristics are often made in an iterative manner. Novel algorithmic ideas are not proposed in isolation, but usually as an extension of a preexisting algorithm. Although these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Diederick Vermetten , Fabio Caraffini , Anna V. Kononova , Thomas Bäck

Multi-modal learning has made significant advances across diverse pattern recognition applications. However, handling missing modalities, especially under imbalanced missing rates, remains a major challenge. This imbalance triggers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Binyu Zhao , Wei Zhang , Zhaonian Zou

Multimodal fusion leverages information across modalities to learn better feature representations with the goal of improving performance in fusion-based tasks. However, multimodal datasets, especially in medical settings, are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares , Farah E. Shamout

In recent years, multimodal recommendation has received significant attention and achieved remarkable success in GCN-based recommendation methods. However, there are two key challenges here: (1) There is a significant amount of redundant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xiangchen Pan , Wei Wei

Multi-Modal Entity Alignment aims to discover identical entities across heterogeneous knowledge graphs. While recent studies have delved into fusion paradigms to represent entities holistically, the elimination of features irrelevant to…

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