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ARXIV:2602.11799 · AI FOR RECOMMENDATIONS · SUBMITTED 17 MAR · 19:46 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2602.11799AI FOR RECOMMENDATIONSSUBMITTED 17 MAR · 19:46 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
Hi-SAM leverages multi-modal data to enhance large-scale recommendation systems for improved user engagement.
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Pain Hi-SAM leverages multi-modal data to enhance large-scale recommendation systems for improved user engagement.
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Hi-SAM leverages multi-modal data to enhance large-scale recommendation systems for improved user engagement. Semantic ID-based approaches effectively discretize this information into compact tokens.
Multi-modal recommendation has gained traction as items possess rich attributes like text and images. Semantic ID-based approaches effectively discretize this information into compact tokens.
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments on real-world datasets show consistent improvements over SOTA baselines, especially in cold-start scenarios.
AI for Recommendations moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
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Hi-SAM leverages multi-modal data to enhance large-scale recommendation systems for improved user engagement.
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10.48550/arXiv.2602.11799Hi-SAM leverages multi-modal data to enhance large-scale recommendation systems for improved user engagement.
Abstract
Multi-modal recommendation has gained traction as items possess rich attributes like text and images. Semantic ID-based approaches effectively discretize this information into compact tokens. However, two challenges persist: (1) Suboptimal Tokenization: existing methods (e.g., RQ-VAE) lack disentanglement between shared cross-modal semantics and modality-specific details, causing redundancy or collapse; (2) Architecture-Data Mismatch: vanilla Transformers treat semantic IDs as flat streams, ignoring the hierarchy of user interactions, items, and tokens. Expanding items into multiple tokens amplifies length and noise, biasing attention toward local details over holistic semantics. We propose Hi-SAM, a Hierarchical Structure-Aware Multi-modal framework with two designs: (1) Disentangled Semantic Tokenizer (DST): unifies modalities via geometry-aware alignment and quantizes them via a coarse-to-fine strategy. Shared codebooks distill consensus while modality-specific ones recover nuances from residuals, enforced by mutual information minimization; (2) Hierarchical Memory-Anchor Transformer (HMAT): splits positional encoding into inter- and intra-item subspaces via Hierarchical RoPE to restore hierarchy. It inserts Anchor Tokens to condense items into compact memory, retaining details for the current item while accessing history only through compressed summaries. Experiments on real-world datasets show consistent improvements over SOTA baselines, especially in cold-start scenarios. Deployed on a large-scale social platform serving millions of users, Hi-SAM achieved a 6.55% gain in the core online metric.
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PROBLEM
Hi-SAM leverages multi-modal data to enhance large-scale recommendation systems for improved user engagement. Semantic ID-based approaches effectively discretize this information into compact tokens.
METHOD
Multi-modal recommendation has gained traction as items possess rich attributes like text and images. Semantic ID-based approaches effectively discretize this information into compact tokens.
RESULT
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments on real-world datasets show consistent improvements over SOTA baselines, especially in cold-start scenarios.
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AI for Recommendations moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
Disentangled Semantic Tokenizer (DST): unifies modalities via geometry-aware alignment and quantizes them via a coarse-to-fine strategy. Shared codebooks distill consensus while modality-specific ones recover nuances from residuals
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Hierarchical Memory-Anchor Transformer (HMAT): splits positional encoding into inter- and intra-item subspaces via Hierarchical RoPE to restore hierarchy
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Deployed on a large-scale social platform serving millions of users, Hi-SAM achieved a 6.55% gain in the core online metric
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Experiments on real-world datasets show consistent improvements over SOTA baselines, especially in cold-start scenarios
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existing methods (e.g., RQ-VAE) lack disentanglement between shared cross-modal semantics and modality-specific details, causing redundancy or collapse
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vanilla Transformers treat semantic IDs as flat streams, ignoring the hierarchy of user interactions, items, and tokens. Expanding items into multiple tokens amplifies length and noise, biasing attention toward local details over holistic semantics
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The system's success heavily depends on the quality and richness of multi-modal input data, and its performance may degrade if data is sparse or inconsistent across modalities
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It inserts Anchor Tokens to condense items into compact memory, retaining details for the current item while accessing history only through compressed summaries
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