Teach Multimodal Recommendation Model to See via Personalized Visual Extraction and Adaptive Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09082v1
• Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:28:25 GMT
• Title: Teach Multimodal Recommendation Model to See via Personalized Visual Extraction and Adaptive Learning
• Abstract summary: We propose Teach Multimodal Recommendation Model to See via Personalized Visual Extraction and Adaptive Learning (REVEAL)<n>REVEAL is a plug-and-play framework that enhances visual representation learning and cross-modal optimization without modifying the original recommendation backbone.<n> Experiments on multiple real-world datasets and MSR backbones demonstrate that REVEAL consistently improves recommendation performance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Multimodal sequential recommendation (MSR) incorporates textual and visual information to improve recommendation quality. However, recent studies and our empirical analysis show that visual features are often underutilized, thereby contributing far less than textual signals. We attribute this issue to two factors: insufficient visual representation learning (pretrained encoders fail to capture preference-relevant cues) and unbalanced visual-text optimization (textual features dominate the learning process). To address these issues, we propose Teach Multimodal Recommendation Model to See via Personalized Visual Extraction and Adaptive Learning (REVEAL), a plug-and-play framework that enhances visual representation learning and cross-modal optimization without modifying the original recommendation backbone. REVEAL consists of Feedback-Guided Visual Extraction (FVE), which refines prompt-guided visual extraction through task-level feedback, and Adaptive Visual Learning (AVL), which dynamically reweights visual learning to alleviate modality imbalance. Experiments on multiple real-world datasets and MSR backbones demonstrate that REVEAL consistently improves recommendation performance. Further analysis shows that these gains arise from more effective attention to preference-relevant visual regions and better visual utilization during training. The code is available at https://github.com/YutongLi2024/REVEAL.

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