9 papers
When Text-as-Vision Meets Semantic IDs in Generative Recommendation: An Empirical Study
Shutong Qiao, Wei Yuan, Tong Chen +3
Semantic ID learning is a key interface in Generative Recommendation (GR) models, mapping items to discrete identifiers grounded in side information, most commonly via a pretrained…
Integrating Vision-Centric Text Understanding for Conversational Recommender Systems
Wei Yuan, Shutong Qiao, Tong Chen +3
Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have attracted growing attention for their ability to deliver personalized recommendations through natural language interactions. To more…
Efficient Content-based Recommendation Model Training via Noise-aware Coreset Selection
Hung Vinh Tran, Tong Chen, Hechuan Wen +3
Content-based recommendation systems (CRSs) utilize content features to predict user-item interactions, serving as essential tools for helping users navigate information-rich web s…
Learning Reconfigurable Representations for Multimodal Federated Learning with Missing Data
Duong M. Nguyen, Trong Nghia Hoang, Thanh Trung Huynh +2
Multimodal federated learning in real-world settings often encounters incomplete and heterogeneous data across clients. This results in misaligned local feature representations tha…
Towards Propagation-aware Representation Learning for Supervised Social Media Graph Analytics
Wei Jiang, Tong Chen, Wei Yuan +3
Social media platforms generate vast, complex graph-structured data, facilitating diverse tasks such as rumor detection, bot identification, and influence modeling. Real-world appl…
Controllable and Stealthy Shilling Attacks via Dispersive Latent Diffusion
Shutong Qiao, Wei Yuan, Junliang Yu +3
Recommender systems (RSs) are now fundamental to various online platforms, but their dependence on user-contributed data leaves them vulnerable to shilling attacks that can manipul…