We present Team Semiintelligencn's solution for the ACM RecSys 2026 TalkPlayData Challenge, addressing conversational music recommendation through a multi-modal and personalized conversational recomme...
arXiv:2608.23484v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present Team Semiintelligencn's solution for the ACM RecSys 2026 TalkPlayData Challenge, addressing conversational music recommendation through a mu...
By Naman Garg, Sarika Jain, George Fazekas
arXiv:2511. 05550v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large audio language models (LALMs) leverage multimodal representations to generate open-ended answers to natural language queries about audio.
By Daniel Chenyu Lin, Michael Freeman, John Thickstun
arXiv:2509. 09685v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present TalkPlayData 2, a synthetic dataset for multimodal conversational music recommendation generated by an agentic data pipeline.
By Keunwoo Choi, Seungheon Doh, Juhan Nam
The paper introduces Omni-Interactive Universal Embedder (OmniUE), a unified embedding framework that learns a single representation space for text, video, and audio using learnable tokens and intermediate-layer representations. OmniUE supports omni-interactive querying, allowing users to input text, visual regions, or audio spans, which are processed by segmenters and an omni-LLM to generate user-conditioned embeddings. The authors evaluate OmniUE on the new OmniCHOIR benchmark and other multimodal tasks, reporting significant performance gains over state‑of‑the‑art baselines across textual, audio, and visual interactive settings.
By Wei-Yao Wang, Kazuya Tateishi, Shuyang Cui, Christian Simon, Takashi Shibuya, Shusuke Takahashi, Yuki Mitsufuji
EXAM$^2$ is a new benchmark for audio understanding that covers six languages and multiple modalities—speech, sound, music, mixed-audio, and visual images—providing 5,667 multiple-choice questions, 22,614 image instances, and 135,684 multilingual translations. It evaluates large audio language models (LALMs) and multimodal large language models (LLMs), revealing significant gaps in multilingual and cross‑modal performance. The authors also introduce Gemma3n-EXAM$^2$, a lightweight fusion model that improves multilingual results by up to 12.4% and multimodal results by 21.7% over a strong baseline.
By Jiawen Wang, Xiaoxue Gao, Zi Haur Pang, Nancy F. Chen
arXiv:2603. 00610v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind.
By Yinghao Ma, Haiwen Xia, Hewei Gao, Weixiong Chen, Yuxin Ye, Yuchen Yang, Sungkyun Chang, Mingshuo Ding, Yizhi Li, Ruibin Yuan, Simon Dixon, Emmanouil Benetos
arXiv:2607. 06929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Music aesthetic assessment is a challenging yet underexplored problem, requiring models to capture fine-grained, multi-dimensional human perceptual judgments.
By Sirui Zhang, Tianle Wang, Xinyi Tong, Peiyang Yu, Jishang Chen, Liangke Zhao, Haoxin Zhang, Duo Xu, Xin Jin, Feng Yu, Songchun Zhu
arXiv:2508. 16170v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: MultiModal Recommendation (MMR) systems have emerged as a promising solution for improving recommendation quality by leveraging rich item-side modality information, prompting a surge of diverse methods.
By Xiaoxiong Zhang, Xin Zhou, Zhiwei Zeng, Yongjie Wang, Zhiqi Shen
arXiv:2609.06188v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition in conversations demand effective modeling of heterogeneous interactions across textual, acoustic...
By Pengfei Shao, Jisheng Dang, Jiawen Fang, Ning Liu, Wencan Zhang, Bimei Wang, Jingwen Zhao, Jianhuang Lai, Qi Tian, Tat-Seng Chua
arXiv:2607. 29213v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern recommender systems in food delivery increasingly leverage multimodal signals, including images, text, and user interaction histories, to enhance user experience, yet effective fusion of these heterogeneous modalities remains challenging, hindering both the joint modeling of multimodal signals and adaptation to evolving user intent.
By Jiping Liu, Zhongmin Zhang, Zisen Sang, Zhijia Fang, Tao Ouyang, Ma Jiang, Shaopeng Liang, Zeyang Hou, Guodong Cao, Jia Jia
arXiv:2511. 23304v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-Modal Scene Graph with Kolmogorov-Arnold Expert Network for Audio-Visual Question Answering (SHRIKE).
By Zijian Fu, Changsheng Lv, Xianlin Zhang, Mengshi Qi, Huadong Ma