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New MOTIF framework enhances cold-start multimodal recommendation

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Researchers have developed MOTIF, a novel framework designed to improve cold-start multimodal recommendation systems. This framework addresses challenges such as sparse user interactions, isolated cold items, and semantic drift in item graphs. MOTIF integrates several components, including Semantic Motivation Reasoning and Knowledge-enhanced Graph Reconstruction, to infer user motivations and reconstruct item topology without relying on generated text for predictions. Experiments demonstrate that MOTIF achieves significant performance gains over existing baselines on multimodal recommendation tasks. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Chang Han ·

    MOTIF: Motivation-guided Topology Inference for Cold-start Multimodal Recommendation

    Cold-start multimodal recommendation faces three coupled challenges: (i) sparse interactions obscure user intent, (ii) cold items remain topologically isolated, and (iii) similarity-based item graphs may cause semantic drift. To address these issues, we propose MOTIF, a Motivatio…

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