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One of the most used approaches for providing recommendations in various online environments such as e-commerce is collaborative filtering. Although, this is a simple method for recommending items or services, accuracy and quality problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Nikolaos Polatidis , Christos K. Georgiadis

Many recommendation systems limit user inputs to text strings or behavior signals such as clicks and purchases, and system outputs to a list of products sorted by relevance. With the advent of generative AI, users have come to expect richer…

Multimodal learning, which integrates diverse data sources such as images, text, and structured data, has proven superior to unimodal counterparts in high-stakes decision-making. However, while performance gains remain the gold standard for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Kishore Sampath , Pratheesh , Ayaazuddin Mohammad , Resmi Ramachandranpillai

Purpose High dimensional, multimodal data can nowadays be analyzed by huge deep neural networks with little effort. Several fusion methods for bringing together different modalities have been developed. Given the prevalence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Christian Gapp , Elias Tappeiner , Martin Welk , Karl Fritscher , Elke Ruth Gizewski , Rainer Schubert

Multimodal recommender systems improve the performance of canonical recommender systems with no item features by utilizing diverse content types such as text, images, and videos, while alleviating inherent sparsity of user-item interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yu-Seung Roh , Joo-Young Kim , Jin-Duk Park , Won-Yong Shin

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 are a subset of information filtering systems designed to predict and suggest items that users may find interesting or relevant based on their preferences, behaviors, or interactions. By analyzing user data such as past…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mahamudul Hasan

We propose a novel recommender framework, MuSTRec (Multimodal and Sequential Transformer-based Recommendation), that unifies multimodal and sequential recommendation paradigms. MuSTRec captures cross-item similarities and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

This paper investigates the MM dynamics approach proposed by Han et al. (2022) for multi-modal fusion in biomedical classification tasks. The MM dynamics algorithm integrates feature-level and modality-level informativeness to dynamically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Laura Wenderoth

The world provides us with data of multiple modalities. Intuitively, models fusing data from different modalities outperform their uni-modal counterparts, since more information is aggregated. Recently, joining the success of deep learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yu Huang , Chenzhuang Du , Zihui Xue , Xuanyao Chen , Hang Zhao , Longbo Huang

With the development of multimedia systems, multimodal recommendations are playing an essential role, as they can leverage rich contexts beyond interactions. Existing methods mainly regard multimodal information as an auxiliary, using them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yifan Liu , Kangning Zhang , Xiangyuan Ren , Yanhua Huang , Jiarui Jin , Yingjie Qin , Ruilong Su , Ruiwen Xu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Multimodal learning seeks to utilize data from multiple sources to improve the overall performance of downstream tasks. It is desirable for redundancies in the data to make multimodal systems robust to missing or corrupted observations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Md Kaykobad Reza , Ashley Prater-Bennette , M. Salman Asif

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

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

Multimodal fusion focuses on integrating information from multiple modalities with the goal of more accurate prediction, which has achieved remarkable progress in a wide range of scenarios, including autonomous driving and medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Qingyang Zhang , Yake Wei , Zongbo Han , Huazhu Fu , Xi Peng , Cheng Deng , Qinghua Hu , Cai Xu , Jie Wen , Di Hu , Changqing Zhang

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

Learning multimodal representations involves integrating information from multiple heterogeneous sources of data. It is a challenging yet crucial area with numerous real-world applications in multimedia, affective computing, robotics,…

Multimodal recommender systems work by augmenting the representation of the products in the catalogue through multimodal features extracted from images, textual descriptions, or audio tracks characterising such products. Nevertheless, in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Daniele Malitesta , Emanuele Rossi , Claudio Pomo , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Tommaso Di Noia

In today's digital landscape, Deep Recommender Systems (DRS) play a crucial role in navigating and customizing online content for individual preferences. However, conventional methods, which mainly depend on single recommendation task,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xiangyu Zhao , Yichao Wang , Bo Chen , Jingtong Gao , Yuhao Wang , Xiaopeng Li , Pengyue Jia , Qidong Liu , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Accurately recommending products has long been a subject requiring in-depth research. This study proposes a multimodal paradigm for clothing recommendations. Specifically, it designs a multimodal analysis method that integrates clothing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Bingjie Huang , Qingyi Lu , Shuaishuai Huang , Xue-she Wang , Haowei Yang