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most citedJust Ask for Music (JAM): Multimodal and Personalized Natural Language Music Recommendation

5 citations · 9 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.IR2026

SPRIG: Semantic-ID-enhanced Paths for Knowledge Graph-based Generative Recommendation

Justin Hangoebl, Marta Moscati, Alessandro B. Melchiorre +2

Recommender systems leveraging generative models often generate item identifiers directly, rather than ranking catalog items by a recommendation score. Recent work extends beyond p…

cs.CV2026

Face-voice Association across LAnguages and Gender (FLAG) 2027 Challenge Evaluation Plan

Marta Moscati, Swapnil Khandoker, Muhammad Saad Saeed +8

Face--voice association models may rely on language or gender cues in the voice rather than on speaker-specific voice characteristics, which can lead to a performance deterioration…

cs.CV2026

Learning Speaker Identity Beyond Language and Modality Constraints: Insights from the POLY-SIM 2026 Challenge

Marta Moscati, Muhammad Saad Saeed, Marina Zanoni +9

Multimodal speaker identification systems typically assume the availability of complete and homogeneous audio-visual modalities during both training and testing, and assume each sp…

cs.CV2026

SB-BEVFusion: Enhancing the Robustness against Sensor Malfunction and Corruptions

Markus Essl, Marta Moscati, Mubashir Noman +4

Multimodal sensor fusion has demonstrated remarkable performance improvements over unimodal approaches in 3D object detection for autonomous vehicles. Typically, existing methods t…

cs.CV2026

POLY-SIM: Polyglot Speaker Identification with Missing Modality Grand Challenge 2026 Evaluation Plan

Marta Moscati, Muhammad Saad Saeed, Marina Zanoni +8

Multimodal speaker identification systems typically assume the availability of complete and homogeneous audio-visual modalities during both training and testing. However, in real-w…

cs.IR2026

Adaptive Autoguidance for Item-Side Fairness in Diffusion Recommender Systems

Zihan Li, Gustavo Escobedo, Marta Moscati +2

Diffusion recommender systems achieve strong recommendation accuracy but often suffer from popularity bias, resulting in unequal item exposure. To address this shortcoming, we intr…

cs.CV2026

Robust Harmful Meme Detection under Missing Modalities via Shared Representation Learning

Felix Breiteneder, Mohammad Belal, Muhammad Saad Saeed +5

Internet memes are powerful tools for communication, capable of spreading political, psychological, and sociocultural ideas. However, they can be harmful and can be used to dissemi…

cs.SD2026

Distillation-based Layer Dropping (DLD): Effective End-to-end Framework for Dynamic Speech Networks

Abdul Hannan, Daniele Falavigna, Shah Nawaz +3

Edge devices operate in constrained and varying resource settings, requiring dynamic architectures that can adapt to limitations of the available resources. To meet such demands, l…

cs.CV2026

Face-Voice Association with Inductive Bias for Maximum Class Separation

Marta Moscati, Oleksandr Kats, Mubashir Noman +4

Face-voice association is widely studied in multimodal learning and is approached representing faces and voices with embeddings that are close for a same person and well separated…

cs.CV2025

Linking Faces and Voices Across Languages: Insights from the FAME 2026 Challenge

Marta Moscati, Ahmed Abdullah, Muhammad Saad Saeed +7

Over half of the world's population is bilingual and people often communicate under multilingual scenarios. The Face-Voice Association in Multilingual Environments (FAME) 2026 Chal…

cs.LG2025

RobustA: Robust Anomaly Detection in Multimodal Data

Salem AlMarri, Muhammad Irzam Liaqat, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer +3

In recent years, multimodal anomaly detection methods have demonstrated remarkable performance improvements over video-only models. However, real-world multimodal data is often cor…

cs.IR2025

Music Recommendation with Large Language Models: Challenges, Opportunities, and Evaluation

Elena V. Epure, Yashar Deldjoo, Bruno Sguerra +2

Music Recommender Systems (MRSs) have long relied on an information retrieval framing, where progress is measured mainly through accuracy on retrieval-oriented subtasks. While effe…

cs.CV2025

Face-voice Association in Multilingual Environments (FAME) 2026 Challenge Evaluation Plan

Marta Moscati, Ahmed Abdullah, Muhammad Saad Saeed +7

The advancements of technology have led to the use of multimodal systems in various real-world applications. Among them, audio-visual systems are among the most widely used multimo…

cs.IR2025

Single-Branch Network Architectures to Close the Modality Gap in Multimodal Recommendation

Christian Ganhör, Marta Moscati, Anna Hausberger +2

Traditional recommender systems rely on collaborative filtering, using past user-item interactions to help users discover new items in a vast collection. In cold start, i.e., when…

cs.MM2025

Music4All A+A: A Multimodal Dataset for Music Information Retrieval Tasks

Jonas Geiger, Marta Moscati, Shah Nawaz +1

Music is characterized by aspects related to different modalities, such as the audio signal, the lyrics, or the music video clips. This has motivated the development of multimodal…

cs.IR2025

Parameter-Efficient Single Collaborative Branch for Recommendation

Marta Moscati, Shah Nawaz, Markus Schedl

Recommender Systems (RS) often rely on representations of users and items in a joint embedding space and on a similarity metric to compute relevance scores. In modern RS, the modul…

cs.CL2025

Investigating Gender Bias in LLM-Generated Stories via Psychological Stereotypes

Shahed Masoudian, Gustavo Escobedo, Hannah Strauss +1

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used across different applications, concerns about their potential to amplify gender biases in various tasks are rising. Prior rese…

cs.IR2025★ 5 cited

Just Ask for Music (JAM): Multimodal and Personalized Natural Language Music Recommendation

Alessandro B. Melchiorre, Elena V. Epure, Shahed Masoudian +4

Natural language interfaces offer a compelling approach for music recommendation, enabling users to express complex preferences conversationally. While Large Language Models (LLMs)…

cs.SD2025

AI-Generated Song Detection via Lyrics Transcripts

Markus Frohmann, Elena V. Epure, Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal +2

The recent rise in capabilities of AI-based music generation tools has created an upheaval in the music industry, necessitating the creation of accurate methods to detect such AI-g…

cs.CL2025

Double Entendre: Robust Audio-Based AI-Generated Lyrics Detection via Multi-View Fusion

Markus Frohmann, Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal, Markus Schedl +1

The rapid advancement of AI-based music generation tools is revolutionizing the music industry but also posing challenges to artists, copyright holders, and providers alike. This n…

cs.CV2025

PAEFF: Precise Alignment and Enhanced Gated Feature Fusion for Face-Voice Association

Abdul Hannan, Muhammad Arslan Manzoor, Shah Nawaz +3

We study the task of learning association between faces and voices, which is gaining interest in the multimodal community lately. These methods suffer from the deliberate crafting…

cs.IR2025

Familiarizing with Music: Discovery Patterns for Different Music Discovery Needs

Marta Moscati, Darius Afchar, Markus Schedl +1

Humans have the tendency to discover and explore. This natural tendency is reflected in data from streaming platforms as the amount of previously unknown content accessed by users.…

cs.LG2024

Simultaneous Unlearning of Multiple Protected User Attributes From Variational Autoencoder Recommenders Using Adversarial Training

Gustavo Escobedo, Christian Ganhör, Stefan Brandl +2

In widely used neural network-based collaborative filtering models, users' history logs are encoded into latent embeddings that represent the users' preferences. In this setting, t…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

A Multimodal Single-Branch Embedding Network for Recommendation in Cold-Start and Missing Modality Scenarios

Christian Ganhör, Marta Moscati, Anna Hausberger +2

Most recommender systems adopt collaborative filtering (CF) and provide recommendations based on past collective interactions. Therefore, the performance of CF algorithms degrades…