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Sep 2026
Three Minds, One Student: Online Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Recommenders
Existing multimodal recommendation models using complex fusion mechanisms (e.g., attention) or multi-stage processes (e.g., early or late fusion) integrate different modalities. However, attention-based adaptive fusion is prone to shortcut learning, where dominant collaborative signals (ID) can overshadow other modalit...
Hang-Tong Xu, Yuanbo Xu, En Wang
· Proceedings of the Thirty-Fi... · 0 citations