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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…

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An increasing number of media streaming services have expanded their offerings to include entities of multiple content types. For instance, audio streaming services that started by offering music only, now also offer podcasts, merchandise…

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Current conversational recommendation systems focus predominantly on text. However, real-world recommendation settings are generally multimodal, causing a significant gap between existing research and practical applications. To address this…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zihan Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Yongkang Liu , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang

Retrieval-augmented systems are typically evaluated in settings where information required to answer the query can be found within a single source or the answer is short-form or factoid-based. However, many real-world applications demand…

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The Music Emotion Recognition (MER) field has seen steady developments in recent years, with contributions from feature engineering, machine learning, and deep learning. The landscape has also shifted from audio-centric systems to bimodal…

Multimodal recommendation systems are increasingly popular for their potential to improve performance by integrating diverse data types. However, the actual benefits of this integration remain unclear, raising questions about when and how…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Hongyu Zhou , Yinan Zhang , Aixin Sun , Zhiqi Shen

Human perception and experience of music is highly context-dependent. Contextual variability contributes to differences in how we interpret and interact with music, challenging the design of robust models for information retrieval.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Kleanthis Avramidis , Shanti Stewart , Shrikanth Narayanan

With the growing interest in Multimodal Recommender Systems (MRSs), collecting high-quality datasets provided with multimedia side information (text, images, audio, video) has become a fundamental step. However, most of the current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Giuseppe Spillo , Alessandro Petruzzelli , Cataldo Musto , Marco de Gemmis , Pasquale Lops , Giovanni Semeraro

While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by establishing a comprehensive…

State-of-the-art music recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering, which builds upon learning similarities between users and songs from the available listening data. These approaches inherently face the cold-start problem, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Paul Magron , Cédric Févotte

This work present a music dataset named MusicTM-Dataset, which is utilized in improving the representation learning ability of different types of cross-modal retrieval (CMR). Little large music dataset including three modalities is…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Donghuo Zeng , Yi Yu , Keizo Oyama

Many tasks in music information retrieval, such as recommendation, and playlist generation for online radio, fall naturally into the query-by-example setting, wherein a user queries the system by providing a song, and the system responds…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2011-05-13 Brian McFee , Luke Barrington , Gert Lanckriet

While both the data volume and heterogeneity of the digital music content is huge, it has become increasingly important and convenient to build a recommendation or search system to facilitate surfacing these content to the user or consumer…

Multimedia recommendation aims to fuse the multi-modal information of items for feature enrichment to improve the recommendation performance. However, existing methods typically introduce multi-modal information based on collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Haokai Ma , Zhuang Qi , Xinxin Dong , Xiangxian Li , Yuze Zheng , Xiangxu Mengand Lei Meng

Over the years, Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has proposed various models pretrained on large amounts of music data. Transfer learning showcases the proven effectiveness of pretrained backend models with a broad spectrum of downstream…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yan-Martin Tamm , Anna Aljanaki

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

Sequential recommender systems explore users' preferences and behavioral patterns from their historically generated data. Recently, researchers aim to improve sequential recommendation by utilizing massive user-generated multi-modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Meng Yan , Haibin Huang , Ying Liu , Juan Zhao , Xiyue Gao , Cai Xu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao

Recommender systems (RSs) provide an effective way of alleviating the information overload problem by selecting personalized choices. Online social networks and user-generated content provide diverse sources for recommendation beyond…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Guang-Neng Hu , Xin-Yu Dai , Yunya Song , Shu-Jian Huang , Jia-Jun Chen

This work formulates a novel song recommender system as a matrix completion problem that benefits from collaborative filtering through Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and content-based filtering via total variation (TV) on graphs.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-14 Kirell Benzi , Vassilis Kalofolias , Xavier Bresson , Pierre Vandergheynst

Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction for text to music systems requires evaluating both overall musical quality and text prompt alignment. This paper introduces WhisQ, a multimodal architecture that addresses this dual-assessment challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jakaria Islam Emon , Kazi Tamanna Alam , Md. Abu Salek