VIP5: Towards Multimodal Foundation Models for Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14302v2
• Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 18:09:31 GMT
• Title: VIP5: Towards Multimodal Foundation Models for Recommendation
• Authors: Shijie Geng and Juntao Tan and Shuchang Liu and Zuohui Fu and Yongfeng Zhang
• Abstract summary: We propose the development of a multimodal foundation model (MFM) to unify various modalities and recommendation tasks. To achieve this, we introduce multimodal personalized prompts to accommodate multiple modalities under a shared format. We also propose a parameter-efficient training method for foundation models, which involves freezing the P5 backbone and fine-tuning lightweight adapters.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Computer Vision (CV), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Recommender Systems (RecSys) are three prominent AI applications that have traditionally developed independently, resulting in disparate modeling and engineering methodologies. This has impeded the ability for these fields to directly benefit from each other's advancements. With the recent development of foundation models, large language models have emerged as a potential general-purpose interface for unifying different modalities and problem formulations. In light of this, we propose the development of a multimodal foundation model (MFM) considering visual, textual, and personalization modalities under the P5 recommendation paradigm, thus named VIP5 (Visual P5), to unify various modalities and recommendation tasks. This will enable the processing of multiple modalities in a shared architecture for improved recommendations. To achieve this, we introduce multimodal personalized prompts to accommodate multiple modalities under a shared format. Additionally, we propose a parameter-efficient training method for foundation models, which involves freezing the P5 backbone and fine-tuning lightweight adapters, resulting in improved recommendation performance and increased efficiency in terms of training time and memory usage. Code and data of VIP5 are available at https://github.com/jeykigung/VIP5.

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