The Best is Yet to Come: Graph Convolution in the Testing Phase for Multimodal Recommendation
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| author | Xu, Jinfeng Chen, Zheyu Yang, Shuo Li, Jinze Ngai, Edith C. H. |
| author_facet | Xu, Jinfeng Chen, Zheyu Yang, Shuo Li, Jinze Ngai, Edith C. H. |
| contents | The efficiency and scalability of graph convolution networks (GCNs) in training recommender systems remain critical challenges, hindering their practical deployment in real-world scenarios. In the multimodal recommendation (MMRec) field, training GCNs requires more expensive time and space costs and exacerbates the gap between different modalities, resulting in sub-optimal recommendation accuracy. This paper critically points out the inherent challenges associated with adopting GCNs during the training phase in MMRec, revealing that GCNs inevitably create unhelpful and even harmful pairs during model optimization and isolate different modalities. To this end, we propose FastMMRec, a highly efficient multimodal recommendation framework that deploys graph convolutions exclusively during the testing phase, bypassing their use in training. We demonstrate that adopting GCNs solely in the testing phase significantly improves the model's efficiency and scalability while alleviating the modality isolation problem often caused by using GCNs during the training phase. We conduct extensive experiments on three public datasets, consistently demonstrating the performance superiority of FastMMRec over competitive baselines while achieving efficiency and scalability. |
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| spellingShingle | The Best is Yet to Come: Graph Convolution in the Testing Phase for Multimodal Recommendation Xu, Jinfeng Chen, Zheyu Yang, Shuo Li, Jinze Ngai, Edith C. H. Information Retrieval The efficiency and scalability of graph convolution networks (GCNs) in training recommender systems remain critical challenges, hindering their practical deployment in real-world scenarios. In the multimodal recommendation (MMRec) field, training GCNs requires more expensive time and space costs and exacerbates the gap between different modalities, resulting in sub-optimal recommendation accuracy. This paper critically points out the inherent challenges associated with adopting GCNs during the training phase in MMRec, revealing that GCNs inevitably create unhelpful and even harmful pairs during model optimization and isolate different modalities. To this end, we propose FastMMRec, a highly efficient multimodal recommendation framework that deploys graph convolutions exclusively during the testing phase, bypassing their use in training. We demonstrate that adopting GCNs solely in the testing phase significantly improves the model's efficiency and scalability while alleviating the modality isolation problem often caused by using GCNs during the training phase. We conduct extensive experiments on three public datasets, consistently demonstrating the performance superiority of FastMMRec over competitive baselines while achieving efficiency and scalability. |
| title | The Best is Yet to Come: Graph Convolution in the Testing Phase for Multimodal Recommendation |
| topic | Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18489 |