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Main Authors: Wu, Xinglong, Huang, Anfeng, Yang, Hongwei, He, Hui, Tai, Yu, Zhang, Weizhe
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05420
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author Wu, Xinglong
Huang, Anfeng
Yang, Hongwei
He, Hui
Tai, Yu
Zhang, Weizhe
author_facet Wu, Xinglong
Huang, Anfeng
Yang, Hongwei
He, Hui
Tai, Yu
Zhang, Weizhe
contents Multi-modal recommendation greatly enhances the performance of recommender systems by modeling the auxiliary information from multi-modality contents. Most existing multi-modal recommendation models primarily exploit multimedia information propagation processes to enrich item representations and directly utilize modal-specific embedding vectors independently obtained from upstream pre-trained models. However, this might be inappropriate since the abundant task-specific semantics remain unexplored, and the cross-modality semantic gap hinders the recommendation performance. Inspired by the recent progress of the cross-modal alignment model CLIP, in this paper, we propose a novel \textbf{CLIP} \textbf{E}nhanced \textbf{R}ecommender (\textbf{CLIPER}) framework to bridge the semantic gap between modalities and extract fine-grained multi-view semantic information. Specifically, we introduce a multi-view modality-alignment approach for representation extraction and measure the semantic similarity between modalities. Furthermore, we integrate the multi-view multimedia representations into downstream recommendation models. Extensive experiments conducted on three public datasets demonstrate the consistent superiority of our model over state-of-the-art multi-modal recommendation models.
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spellingShingle Towards Bridging the Cross-modal Semantic Gap for Multi-modal Recommendation
Wu, Xinglong
Huang, Anfeng
Yang, Hongwei
He, Hui
Tai, Yu
Zhang, Weizhe
Information Retrieval
Multi-modal recommendation greatly enhances the performance of recommender systems by modeling the auxiliary information from multi-modality contents. Most existing multi-modal recommendation models primarily exploit multimedia information propagation processes to enrich item representations and directly utilize modal-specific embedding vectors independently obtained from upstream pre-trained models. However, this might be inappropriate since the abundant task-specific semantics remain unexplored, and the cross-modality semantic gap hinders the recommendation performance. Inspired by the recent progress of the cross-modal alignment model CLIP, in this paper, we propose a novel \textbf{CLIP} \textbf{E}nhanced \textbf{R}ecommender (\textbf{CLIPER}) framework to bridge the semantic gap between modalities and extract fine-grained multi-view semantic information. Specifically, we introduce a multi-view modality-alignment approach for representation extraction and measure the semantic similarity between modalities. Furthermore, we integrate the multi-view multimedia representations into downstream recommendation models. Extensive experiments conducted on three public datasets demonstrate the consistent superiority of our model over state-of-the-art multi-modal recommendation models.
title Towards Bridging the Cross-modal Semantic Gap for Multi-modal Recommendation
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05420