Graph Collaborative Filtering models have achieved remarkable success in recommendation systems. However, they inherently suffer from a catastrophic representation collapse in strict cold-start scenar...
MURAL is a multimodal recommendation framework that replaces static similarity graphs with a dynamic topology discovery process. It uses an Adaptive Edge Learner to find latent item-item correlations efficiently and an Uncertainty-Aware Fusion module to down‑weight noisy modality signals based on aleatoric uncertainty. The model also incorporates a contrastive teacher‑student alignment to stabilize training and has been shown to outperform state‑of‑the‑art baselines on large‑scale TikTok and Amazon datasets, providing both higher accuracy and interpretability.
arXiv:2606. 06225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative filtering and graph-based recommendation models are highly effective because they leverage observed user interactions, but this dependence creates a fundamental cold-start challenge when newly added content has no interaction history.
arXiv:2606. 12245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cold-start item recommendation remains a persistent challenge in real-world systems due to the absence of interaction histories.
arXiv:2604. 10882v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph Neural Network pretraining is pivotal for leveraging unlabeled graph data.
arXiv:2608.23400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete Diffusion Models (DDMs) have recently been introduced to recommendation systems, modeling user history as a token generation process via ite...
arXiv:2604. 25693v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most multi-modal knowledge graph completion (MMKGC) models use one embedding scorer to conduct both retrieval over the full entity set and final link prediction.
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.
Discrete Diffusion Models (DDMs) have recently been introduced to recommendation systems, modeling user history as a token generation process via iterative denoising. However, while effective at captu...
arXiv:2606. 10504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal knowledge distillation (CMKD) studies how a (large) teacher model trained on one type of data (e.
arXiv:2512. 12477v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Estimating node importance in heterogeneous knowledge graphs is a fundamental problem underlying recommendation, search, and knowledge decision systems.
REGER is a unified framework that enhances generative recommendation by explicitly modeling inter-item relations through semantic pretraining, history encoding, and SID generation. It pretrains the model to generate semantic neighbors’ IDs, uses combined global and local attention to capture historical context, and introduces a hierarchical preference decomposition over the SID prefix tree. The approach also distills a discriminative teacher’s full conditional distributions to improve next-token predictions, yielding consistent performance gains on real-world datasets.