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Multimodal Recommendation (MMR) systems are crucial for modern platforms but are often hampered by inherent noise and uncertainty in modal features, such as blurry images, diverse visual appearances, or ambiguous text. Existing methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xinzhuo Wu , Hongbo Wang , Yuan Lin , Kan Xu , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Multimodal recommender systems leverage diverse data sources, such as user interactions, content features, and contextual information, to address challenges like cold-start and data sparsity. However, existing methods often suffer from one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Adamya Shyam , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Bharti Rana , Vikas Kumar

Generally, items with missing modalities are dropped in multimodal recommendation. However, with this work, we question this procedure, highlighting that it would further damage the pipeline of any multimodal recommender system. First, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Daniele Malitesta , Emanuele Rossi , Claudio Pomo , Tommaso Di Noia , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

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

Multimedia content is of predominance in the modern Web era. Investigating how users interact with multimodal items is a continuing concern within the rapid development of recommender systems. The majority of previous work focuses on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jinghao Zhang , Yanqiao Zhu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Shuhui Wang , Liang Wang

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

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

Recommendation systems have lately been popularized globally, with primary use cases in online interaction systems, with significant focus on e-commerce platforms. We have developed a machine learning-based recommendation platform, which…

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

Multimodal recommender systems enhance personalized recommendations in e-commerce and online advertising by integrating visual, textual, and user-item interaction data. However, existing methods often overlook two critical biases: (i) modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jie Yang , Chenyang Gu , Zixuan Liu

Multimodal recommendation has emerged as a promising solution to alleviate the cold-start and sparsity problems in collaborative filtering by incorporating rich content information, such as product images and textual descriptions. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sibei Liu , Yuanzhe Zhang , Xiang Li , Yunbo Liu , Chengwei Feng , Hao Yang

Robust multimodal systems must remain effective when some modalities are noisy, degraded, or unreliable. Existing multimodal fusion methods often learn modality selection jointly with representation learning, making it difficult to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Roland Bertin-Johannet , Lara Scipio , Leopold Maytié , Rufin VanRullen

Multimodal information (e.g., visual, acoustic, and textual) has been widely used to enhance representation learning for micro-video recommendation. For integrating multimodal information into a joint representation of micro-video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Fan Liu , Wenjie Wang , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

One of the key factors of enabling machine learning models to comprehend and solve real-world tasks is to leverage multimodal data. Unfortunately, annotation of multimodal data is challenging and expensive. Recently, self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Elad Amrani , Rami Ben-Ari , Daniel Rotman , Alex Bronstein

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

As multimodal learning finds applications in a wide variety of high-stakes societal tasks, investigating their robustness becomes important. Existing work has focused on understanding the robustness of vision-and-language models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Gaurav Verma , Vishwa Vinay , Ryan A. Rossi , Srijan Kumar

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

Accurate news representation is critical for news recommendation. Most of existing news representation methods learn news representations only from news texts while ignore the visual information in news like images. In fact, users may click…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

Short video platforms have become important channels for news dissemination, offering a highly engaging and immediate way for users to access current events and share information. However, these platforms have also emerged as significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Weihao Zhong , Yinhao Xiao , Minghui Xu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Multimodal deep learning, especially vision-language models, have gained significant traction in recent years, greatly improving performance on many downstream tasks, including content moderation and violence detection. However, standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Zhuokai Zhao , Harish Palani , Tianyi Liu , Lena Evans , Ruth Toner