Do We Really Need to Drop Items with Missing Modalities in Multimodal Recommendation?
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| author | Malitesta, Daniele Rossi, Emanuele Pomo, Claudio Di Noia, Tommaso Malliaros, Fragkiskos D. |
| author_facet | Malitesta, Daniele Rossi, Emanuele Pomo, Claudio Di Noia, Tommaso Malliaros, Fragkiskos D. |
| contents | Generally, items with missing modalities are dropped in multimodal recommendation. However, with this work, we question this procedure, highlighting that it would further damage the pipeline of any multimodal recommender system. First, we show that the lack of (some) modalities is, in fact, a widely-diffused phenomenon in multimodal recommendation. Second, we propose a pipeline that imputes missing multimodal features in recommendation by leveraging traditional imputation strategies in machine learning. Then, given the graph structure of the recommendation data, we also propose three more effective imputation solutions that leverage the item-item co-purchase graph and the multimodal similarities of co-interacted items. Our method can be plugged into any multimodal RSs in the literature working as an untrained pre-processing phase, showing (through extensive experiments) that any data pre-filtering is not only unnecessary but also harmful to the performance. |
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| spellingShingle | Do We Really Need to Drop Items with Missing Modalities in Multimodal Recommendation? Malitesta, Daniele Rossi, Emanuele Pomo, Claudio Di Noia, Tommaso Malliaros, Fragkiskos D. Information Retrieval Generally, items with missing modalities are dropped in multimodal recommendation. However, with this work, we question this procedure, highlighting that it would further damage the pipeline of any multimodal recommender system. First, we show that the lack of (some) modalities is, in fact, a widely-diffused phenomenon in multimodal recommendation. Second, we propose a pipeline that imputes missing multimodal features in recommendation by leveraging traditional imputation strategies in machine learning. Then, given the graph structure of the recommendation data, we also propose three more effective imputation solutions that leverage the item-item co-purchase graph and the multimodal similarities of co-interacted items. Our method can be plugged into any multimodal RSs in the literature working as an untrained pre-processing phase, showing (through extensive experiments) that any data pre-filtering is not only unnecessary but also harmful to the performance. |
| title | Do We Really Need to Drop Items with Missing Modalities in Multimodal Recommendation? |
| topic | Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11767 |