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Hierarchy-Aware Multimodal Distillation for Recommendation
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DOI：10.1109/TMM.2026.3651049.png)
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Beyond behavioral interaction records, multimedia recommendation scenarios possess abundant semantic signals, which provide excellent data support for user interest mining. Recently, the multimodal enhanced interaction graph has been actively explored and has achieved great progress. However, these methods overlook the capability disparity of various modalities in learning users' interests and lack the ability to explore the hierarchical relationships of interests in modality, resulting in suboptimal recommendation performance. Therefore, this work investigates intra-modality hierarchical learning and inter-modality guidance, proposing a hyperbolic self-distillation (HSD) model for multimedia recommendation. In each modality space, HSD introduces a hyperbolic propagation to filter users' hierarchical interests from the interaction graph effectively. Inter-modality interests are aligned further by a two-level self-distillation strategy to designate multimodal interactions to teach single-modal learning, aiming at teaching and learning to promote each other. Extensive experiments on four public datasets demonstrate that the proposed HSD outperforms leading baselines for multimedia recommendation, verifying the effectiveness of hierarchical propagation and two-level self-distillation in mining users' hierarchical interests.
Keywords:
Embedding learning
hyperbolic space
knowledge distillation
multimedia recommendation
user interest
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