Agents as Knowledge Integrator and Utilizer in Multimodal Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29410v1
• Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:25:18 GMT
• Title: Agents as Knowledge Integrator and Utilizer in Multimodal Recommendation
• Abstract summary: multimodal content should be interpreted together with user behavior before it is used to construct recommendation graphs or adjust rankings.<n>We propose AgentMMRec, an agent-based multimodal recommendation framework with two coordinated roles.<n> Experiments on three Amazon multimodal recommendation datasets show that AgentMMRec consistently improves Recall and NDCG over recent multimodal baselines.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Online platforms increasingly rely on multimodal recommender systems to rank products, media, and other Web content. Existing methods usually inject visual and textual features into item representations or build homogeneous graphs from modality-level similarity, but the resulting signals can remain misaligned with the recommendation objective. We study this semantic gap from a knowledge-integration perspective: multimodal content should be interpreted together with user behavior before it is used to construct recommendation graphs or adjust rankings. We propose AgentMMRec, an agent-based multimodal recommendation framework with two coordinated roles. The Integrator Agent infers behavior- and multimodal-aware user preferences and item properties from training interactions and item content, then stores them in a reusable knowledge memory. The Utilizer Agent consumes this memory to refine modality-specific item-item graphs, construct behavior-aware homogeneous graphs, and rerank candidate lists under a frozen evaluation-time memory. This design differs from direct LLM feature augmentation and pure LLM reranking because the generated knowledge is first converted into graph structure and model representations before recommendation. Experiments on three Amazon multimodal recommendation datasets show that AgentMMRec consistently improves Recall and NDCG over recent multimodal baselines, remains effective under sparsity and item cold-start settings, and can transfer its constructed knowledge to existing backbones.

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