Molar: Multimodal LLMs with Collaborative Filtering Alignment for Enhanced Sequential Recommendation

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Autori principali: Luo, Yucong, Qin, Qitao, Zhang, Hao, Cheng, Mingyue, Yan, Ruiran, Wang, Kefan, Ouyang, Jie
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author Luo, Yucong
Qin, Qitao
Zhang, Hao
Cheng, Mingyue
Yan, Ruiran
Wang, Kefan
Ouyang, Jie
author_facet Luo, Yucong
Qin, Qitao
Zhang, Hao
Cheng, Mingyue
Yan, Ruiran
Wang, Kefan
Ouyang, Jie
contents Sequential recommendation (SR) systems have evolved significantly over the past decade, transitioning from traditional collaborative filtering to deep learning approaches and, more recently, to large language models (LLMs). While the adoption of LLMs has driven substantial advancements, these models inherently lack collaborative filtering information, relying primarily on textual content data neglecting other modalities and thus failing to achieve optimal recommendation performance. To address this limitation, we propose Molar, a Multimodal large language sequential recommendation framework that integrates multiple content modalities with ID information to capture collaborative signals effectively. Molar employs an MLLM to generate unified item representations from both textual and non-textual data, facilitating comprehensive multimodal modeling and enriching item embeddings. Additionally, it incorporates collaborative filtering signals through a post-alignment mechanism, which aligns user representations from content-based and ID-based models, ensuring precise personalization and robust performance. By seamlessly combining multimodal content with collaborative filtering insights, Molar captures both user interests and contextual semantics, leading to superior recommendation accuracy. Extensive experiments validate that Molar significantly outperforms traditional and LLM-based baselines, highlighting its strength in utilizing multimodal data and collaborative signals for sequential recommendation tasks. The source code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/Molar-8B06/.
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spellingShingle Molar: Multimodal LLMs with Collaborative Filtering Alignment for Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
Luo, Yucong
Qin, Qitao
Zhang, Hao
Cheng, Mingyue
Yan, Ruiran
Wang, Kefan
Ouyang, Jie
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Sequential recommendation (SR) systems have evolved significantly over the past decade, transitioning from traditional collaborative filtering to deep learning approaches and, more recently, to large language models (LLMs). While the adoption of LLMs has driven substantial advancements, these models inherently lack collaborative filtering information, relying primarily on textual content data neglecting other modalities and thus failing to achieve optimal recommendation performance. To address this limitation, we propose Molar, a Multimodal large language sequential recommendation framework that integrates multiple content modalities with ID information to capture collaborative signals effectively. Molar employs an MLLM to generate unified item representations from both textual and non-textual data, facilitating comprehensive multimodal modeling and enriching item embeddings. Additionally, it incorporates collaborative filtering signals through a post-alignment mechanism, which aligns user representations from content-based and ID-based models, ensuring precise personalization and robust performance. By seamlessly combining multimodal content with collaborative filtering insights, Molar captures both user interests and contextual semantics, leading to superior recommendation accuracy. Extensive experiments validate that Molar significantly outperforms traditional and LLM-based baselines, highlighting its strength in utilizing multimodal data and collaborative signals for sequential recommendation tasks. The source code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/Molar-8B06/.
title Molar: Multimodal LLMs with Collaborative Filtering Alignment for Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18176