arxivcs.IRcs.LG2026-07-31
GALA: Generative Aligned Learning for Adaptive Multimodal Representation in the Taobao Shangou Recommender System
Jiping Liu, Zhongmin Zhang, Zisen Sang, Zhijia Fang, Tao Ouyang, Ma Jiang, et al.
Modern recommender systems in food delivery increasingly leverage multimodal signals, including images, text, and user interaction histories, to enhance user experience, yet effective fusion of these heterogeneous modalities remains challenging, hindering both the joint modeling…