Multimodal Generative Recommendation for Fusing Semantic and Collaborative Signals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03713v1
• Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:39:35 GMT
• Title: Multimodal Generative Recommendation for Fusing Semantic and Collaborative Signals
• Authors: Moritz Vandenhirtz, Kaveh Hassani, Shervin Ghasemlou, Shuai Shao, Hamid Eghbalzadeh, Fuchun Peng, Jun Liu, Michael Louis Iuzzolino,
• Abstract summary: Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings.<n>To avoid the significant memory overhead of storing large item sets, the generative recommendation paradigm instead models each item as a series of discrete semantic codes.<n>These methods have yet to surpass traditional sequential recommenders on large item sets, limiting their adoption in the very scenarios they were designed to address.<n>We propose MSCGRec, a Multimodal Semantic and Collaborative Generative Recommender.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of storing large item sets, the generative recommendation paradigm instead models each item as a series of discrete semantic codes. Here, the next item is predicted by an autoregressive model that generates the code sequence corresponding to the predicted item. However, despite promising ranking capabilities on small datasets, these methods have yet to surpass traditional sequential recommenders on large item sets, limiting their adoption in the very scenarios they were designed to address. To resolve this, we propose MSCGRec, a Multimodal Semantic and Collaborative Generative Recommender. MSCGRec incorporates multiple semantic modalities and introduces a novel self-supervised quantization learning approach for images based on the DINO framework. Additionally, MSCGRec fuses collaborative and semantic signals by extracting collaborative features from sequential recommenders and treating them as a separate modality. Finally, we propose constrained sequence learning that restricts the large output space during training to the set of permissible tokens. We empirically demonstrate on three large real-world datasets that MSCGRec outperforms both sequential and generative recommendation baselines and provide an extensive ablation study to validate the impact of each component.

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