Xi-Min Hu

MOTIF: Motivation-guided Topology Inference for Cold-start Multimodal Recommendation

Cold-start multimodal recommendation faces three coupled challenges: (i) sparse interactions obscure user intent, (ii) cold items remain topologically isolated, and (iii) similarity-based item graphs may cause semantic drift. To address these issues, we propose MOTIF, a Motivation-guided Topology Inference framework fo...