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...
By Yuanfeng Qiu
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.
By Ahmad Mousavi (Department of Mathematics,Statistics American University), Majid Alikhani (Independent Researcher), Yeon-Chang Lee (Department of Computer Science,Engineering Ulsan National Institute of Science,Technology), Roberto Corizzo (Department of Computer Science American University), Yeganeh Abdollahinejad (Department of Biosystems,Agricultural Engineering Michigan State University)
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.
By Anh Truong, John Trenkle, Yuanbo Chen, Honghong Zhao, Abdullah Alchihabi, Effy Fang, Michael Tamir
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.
By Kangning Zhang, Yingjie Qin, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Jianghao Lin
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.
By Trong Khiem Tran, Anh Duc Chu, Quang Hung Pham, Phi Le Nguyen, Trong Nghia Hoang