arXiv AI

HMGCLIP: Heterogeneous Multi-Granularity Contrastive Learning for E-commerce Representation Learning

HMGCLIP is a unified multimodal embedding framework that uses a heterogeneous hypergraph to capture both fine‑grained and coarse‑grained product attributes. By mining structure‑aware hard negatives and aligning multi‑granular semantics at relation and hyperedge levels, it enables a dual‑granularity inference mechanism that dynamically fuses attribute evidence. Experiments on a new fine‑grained e‑commerce dataset and the public MAVE benchmark show that HMGCLIP outperforms strong multimodal encoders, MLLMs, and e‑commerce baselines.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

One Model, Many Graphs: Learning over Attributed Graphs across Heterogeneous Modalities with Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 19128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) provide a unified representation space for textual and visual information, yet their potential as general-purpose backbones for graph-structured data remains largely unexplored.

By Jiayi Yang, Yifang Chen, Yuanfu Sun, Jiajin Liu, Qiaoyu Tan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

GraspLLM: Towards Zero-Shot Generalization on Text-Attributed Graphs with LLMs

arXiv:2606. 11898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research on Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) has gained significant attention recently due to its broad applications across various real-world data scenarios, such as citation networks, e-commerce platforms, social media, and web pages.

By Hengyi Feng, Zeang Sheng, Meiyi Qiang, Meiyi Qiang, Wentao Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

POI Recommendation with LLM-Augmented Multi-Graph Learning and Contrastive Alignment

arXiv:2608. 16407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation models based on graph neural networks achieve strong performance by propagating collaborative signals over user-item interactions, yet they struggle with the cold-start problem, where items with few or no interactions are not represented.

By Burak Tamer, Wolfram H\"opken, Zehui Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Hypergraph-based Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Incremental Refinement

arXiv:2608. 16628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (M-RAG) systems are fundamentally limited by the binary connectivity paradigm of traditional simple graphs, which fails to capture the intricate, high-order correlations among heterogeneous entities, such as the N-ary relationships between a visual chart, its scattered textual descriptions, and underlying numerical data.

By Shenao Chen, Yidan Xu, Xiangmin Han, Rundong Xue, Duanpo Wu, Yuhan Gao, Chenggang Yan, Yue Gao
arXiv AI
Aug 7

ViSR-KGC: Visual Subgraph Reasoning with Vision-Language Models for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion

arXiv:2608. 05833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph completion (KGC) aims to infer missing entities or relations from incomplete graph structures, and has evolved into multimodal knowledge graph completion (MMKGC), where entities are associated with multiple modalities such as text and images.

By Jiafan Li, Mengxue Yang, Jiaqi Zhu, Liang Chang, Ying Li, Hongan Wang