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most citedEfficient and Effective Adaptation of Multimodal Foundation Models in Sequential Recommendation

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cs.CV2026

I-KAN: Interpretable Intra- and Inter-Modal Multi-Pathway Representation Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Xiaoting Xie, Feng Qiao, Xianwei Zhang +5

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to infer sentiment by integrating linguistic, acoustic, and visual information. However, many fusion methods integrate modality-specific re…

cs.CV2026

A Comprehensive Review of Multimodal Facial State Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Resources

Xuri Ge, Tianshuo Zhang, Ruihan Li +6

Facial state analysis plays a crucial role in understanding human expressions, psychological modeling, and human computer interaction. Traditional unimodal vision-based methods are…

cs.CL2026

Target-Aware Calibration Data Selection for Preserving Uncertainty in Quantized Language Models

Zhen Yang, Sizai Hou, Kaiwen Zheng +4

Quantization is widely used to deploy large language models, but its effect on uncertainty behavior, such as confidence, margins, and abstention, is rarely treated as a primary obj…

cs.AI2026

Do We Really Need Multimodal Emotion Language Models Larger Than 1B Parameters?

Kaiwen Zheng, Junchen Fu, Wenhao Deng +3

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved the performance of multimodal emotion recognition (MER) and enabled interpretable descriptio…

cs.IR2026

RecRec: Latent Interests Recursive Reasoning for Sequential Recommendation

Wenhao Deng, Junchen Fu, Hanwen Du +6

Sequential recommender systems rely on a single forward pass to encode user interaction histories and predict the next item. Increasing inference-time computation through latent re…

cs.IR2026

Stream-aware Side Adaptation for Large Pre-trained Multimodal Embedding Models in Sequential Recommendation

Junchen Fu, Kaiwen Zheng, Ioannis Arapakis +4

Recently, large pretrained multimodal embedding models such as Qwen3-VL Embedding have shown strong promise for sequential recommendation, as they provide reusable semantic item re…

cs.CL2026

Training-Free Test-Time Contrastive Learning for Large Language Models

Kaiwen Zheng, Kai Zhou, Jinwu Hu +3

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities, but their performance often degrades under distribution shift. Existing test-time adaptation (TTA) methods r…

cs.MM2026

Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Missing Modality Completion in Product Catalogues

Junchen Fu, Wenhao Deng, Kaiwen Zheng +5

Missing-modality information on e-commerce platforms, such as absent product images or textual descriptions, often arises from annotation errors or incomplete metadata, impairing b…

cs.CV2026

Focal-RegionFace: Generating Fine-Grained Multi-attribute Descriptions for Arbitrarily Selected Face Focal Regions

Kaiwen Zheng, Junchen Fu, Songpei Xu +4

In this paper, we introduce an underexplored problem in facial analysis: generating and recognizing multi-attribute natural language descriptions, containing facial action units (A…

cs.IR2025

Are Multimodal Embeddings Truly Beneficial for Recommendation? A Deep Dive into Whole vs. Individual Modalities

Yu Ye, Junchen Fu, Yu Song +2

Multimodal recommendation has emerged as a mainstream paradigm, typically leveraging text and visual embeddings extracted from pre-trained models such as Sentence-BERT, Vision Tran…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Representation Learning Techniques for Comprehensive Facial State Analysis

Kaiwen Zheng, Xuri Ge, Junchen Fu +2

Multimodal foundation models have significantly improved feature representation by integrating information from multiple modalities, making them highly suitable for a broader set o…

cs.IR2025

CROSSAN: Towards Efficient and Effective Adaptation of Multiple Multimodal Foundation Models for Sequential Recommendation

Junchen Fu, Yongxin Ni, Joemon M. Jose +4

In this paper, we explore a less-studied yet practically important problem: how to efficiently and effectively adapt multiple (2) multimodal foundation models (MFMs) for the seq…

cs.CL2025

LLMPopcorn: Exploring LLMs as Assistants for Popular Micro-video Generation

Junchen Fu, Xuri Ge, Kaiwen Zheng +5

In an era where micro-videos dominate platforms like TikTok and YouTube, AI-generated content is nearing cinematic quality. The next frontier is using large language models (LLMs)…

cs.IR2024★ 10 cited

Efficient and Effective Adaptation of Multimodal Foundation Models in Sequential Recommendation

Junchen Fu, Xuri Ge, Xin Xin +5

Multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have revolutionized sequential recommender systems through advanced representation learning. While Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning (PEFT) is com…