arXiv:2610.19578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph Collaborative Filtering models have achieved remarkable success in recommendation systems. However, they inherently suffer from a catastrophic...
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.
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: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...
Cross-modal knowledge distillation (CMKD) studies how a (large) teacher model trained on one type of data (e. g.
arXiv:2604. 10882v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph Neural Network pretraining is pivotal for leveraging unlabeled graph data.
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.
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:2603. 17450v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sequential Recommendation (SR) in multimodal settings typically relies on small frozen pretrained encoders, which limits semantic capacity and prevents Collaborative Filtering (CF) signals from being fully integrated into item representations.