Dual-Diffusional Generative Fashion Recommendation
Abstract
Personalized generative recommender systems have emerged as a promising solution for fashion recommendation. However, existing methods primarily rely on implicit visual embeddings from historical interactions, which often contain preference-irrelevant information and result in insufficient user behavior modeling. Moreover, these models typically generate only item images, providing limited interpretability. To address these limitations, we propose DualFashion, a Dual-Diffusional Generative Fashion Recommendation Architecture that jointly models image and text modalities for personalized and explainable recommendation. DualFashion adopts a dual-diffusion Transformer with image and text branches, where structured attribute-level captions and visual outfit information are jointly used as conditioning signals to model user behavior. The proposed architecture produces both fashion item images and textual descriptions, ensuring visual compatibility while providing explicit semantic interpretability. Furthermore, we introduce a text-augmented fine-tuning strategy that enhances generation diversity and enables effective cross-modal knowledge transfer without incurring heavy computational costs. Extensive experiments on iFashion and Polyvore-U across Personalized Fill-in-the-Blank and Generative Outfit Recommendation tasks demonstrate that DualFashion achieves strong performance in behavior modeling, interpretability, and efficiency compared to state-of-the-art methods. Our code and model checkpoints are available at https://github.com/LinkMingzhe/DualFashion.
Assigned reviewers
| # | Reviewer | Match | Why (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy) | |
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| 1 | Yongxin Ni | 61 | 69 A Content-Driven Micro-Video Recommendation Dataset at Scale (2025) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation 63 Online Distillation-enhanced Multi-modal Transformer for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multimodal Generative Recommendation 62 Multi-Modality is All You Need for Transferable Recommender Systems (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation |
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| 2 | Junchen Fu | 56 | 69 A Content-Driven Micro-Video Recommendation Dataset at Scale (2025) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation 63 Are Multimodal Embeddings Truly Beneficial for Recommendation? A Deep Dive into Whole vs. Individual Modalities (2026) Multimodal Generative Recommendation 61 NineRec: A Benchmark Dataset Suite for Evaluating Transferable Recommendation (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation |
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| 3 | Dan Luo 0004 | 45 | 62 Scaling Collaborative Filtering with Multimodal Contrastive Fine-tuning (2026) Multimodal Generative Recommendation 57 Generating Negative Samples for Multi-Modal Recommendation (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation 56 Flow Matching Based Sequential Recommender Model (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders |
Area chair
| Area chair | Match | |
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| Leyu Lin | 44 |
Area-chair candidates (5)
| Weiming Liu 0005 COI: co-author | 50 | 8 papers | |
| Leyu Lin assigned | 44 | 15 papers | |
| Yanan Niu | 44 | 15 papers | |
| Maolin Wang 0001 | 43 | 15 papers | |
| Kun Gai | 43 | 5 papers |
Candidates from the panel ranked by match score
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| 1 | Yongxin Ni assigned | 61 | 3 | 69 A Content-Driven Micro-Video Recommendation Dataset at Scale (2025) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation 63 Online Distillation-enhanced Multi-modal Transformer for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multimodal Generative Recommendation |
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| 2 | Zhengyi Yang 0007 | 56 | 3 | 55 On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based Recommenders (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 55 Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion (2023) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders |
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| 3 | Junchen Fu assigned | 56 | 3 | 69 A Content-Driven Micro-Video Recommendation Dataset at Scale (2025) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation 63 Are Multimodal Embeddings Truly Beneficial for Recommendation? A Deep Dive into Whole vs. Individual Modalities (2026) Multimodal Generative Recommendation |
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| 4 | Lantao Hu | 50 | 3 | 58 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 55 Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders |
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| 6 | Jiangxia Cao | 50 | 3 | 63 A Multi-modal Modeling Framework for Cold-start Short-video Recommendation (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation 60 QARM: Quantitative Alignment Multi-Modal Recommendation at Kuaishou (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation |
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| 7 | Jiuqiang Li 0002 | 49 | 3 | 55 Disentangled Contrastive Bundle Recommendation with Conditional Diffusion (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 40 Graph Diffusive Self-Supervised Learning for Social Recommendation (2024) Social and Group Recommendation |
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| 8 | Shuchang Liu 0001 | 48 | 3 | 59 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 58 Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders |
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| 9 | Chunyang Wang 0001 | 47 | 3 | 70 Multi-aspect Graph Contrastive Learning for Review-enhanced Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 60 Learning Aspect-Aware High-Order Representations from Ratings and Reviews for Recommendation (2023) Graph Learning for Text-Attributed and Heterogeneous Networks |
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| 10 | Ke Wang 0038 | 47 | 3 | 58 LLM-Grounded Diffusion for Cross-Domain Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 53 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 11 | Han Li 0005 | 47 | 3 | 59 DiffusionGS: Generative Search with Query Conditioned Diffusion in Kuaishou (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 48 OneSug: The Unified End-to-End Generative Framework for E-commerce Query Suggestion (2026) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 12 | James Caverlee | 47 | 3 | 72 Consistency-Aware Recommendation for User-Generated Item List Continuation (2020) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications 70 A Hierarchical Self-Attentive Model for Recommending User-Generated Item Lists (2019) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications |
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| 13 | Hao Deng 0011 | 46 | 3 | 61 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs 50 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking |
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| 14 | Qijiong Liu | 46 | 3 | 66 Boosting Deep CTR Prediction with a Plug-and-Play Pre-trainer for News Recommendation (2022) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction 63 Multimodal Pretraining, Adaptation, and Generation for Recommendation: A Survey (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation |
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| 15 | Qiang Luo 0004 | 46 | 3 | 60 DiffGRM: Diffusion-based Generative Recommendation Model (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 47 OneLoc: Geo-Aware Generative Recommender Systems for Local Life Service (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs |
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| 16 | Xuanhua Yang | 46 | 3 | 58 Towards Personalized Bundle Creative Generation with Contrastive Non-Autoregressive Decoding (2022) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 47 GenRec: A Preference-Oriented Generative Framework for Large-Scale Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking |
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| 17 | Bowen Zheng 0005 | 46 | 3 | 49 Bridging Textual-Collaborative Gap through Semantic Codes for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs 48 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs |
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| 18 | Mengyuan Jing | 45 | 3 | 70 Generating Difficulty-aware Negative Samples via Conditional Diffusion for Multi-modal Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 51 Interest-Aware Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation With Diffusion-Based Augmentation (2026) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 19 | Dan Luo 0004 assigned | 45 | 3 | 62 Scaling Collaborative Filtering with Multimodal Contrastive Fine-tuning (2026) Multimodal Generative Recommendation 57 Generating Negative Samples for Multi-Modal Recommendation (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation |
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| 20 | Yu Zhang 0206 | 45 | 3 | 63 Distribution-Guided Auto-Encoder for User Multimodal Interest Cross Fusion (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation 59 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization |
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| 21 | Yupeng Hou | 45 | 3 | 52 Review-Enhanced Universal Sequence Representation Learning for Recommender Systems (2025) Text Embedding and Representation Learning 52 Inductive Generative Recommendation via Retrieval-based Speculation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs |
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| 22 | Yang Song 0008 | 45 | 3 | 46 Mixed Attention Network for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation 45 UniSAR: Modeling User Transition Behaviors between Search and Recommendation (2024) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 23 | Fei Sun 0001 | 45 | 3 | 46 Personalized re-ranking for recommendation (2019) Recommendation with Search and Ranking 46 SDM: Sequential Deep Matching Model for Online Large-scale Recommender System (2019) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation |
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| 24 | Jinxin Hu | 44 | 3 | 61 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs 50 RCLRec: Reverse Curriculum Learning for Modeling Sparse Conversions in Generative Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking |
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| 25 | Jianling Wang | 44 | 3 | 46 A Hierarchical Self-Attentive Model for Recommending User-Generated Item Lists (2019) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation 46 Fresh Content Needs More Attention: Multi-funnel Fresh Content Recommendation (2023) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation |
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| 28 | Wei Guo 0006 | 44 | 3 | 51 Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Unifying Retrieval and Ranking with a Single Generative Recommendation Model (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking 44 Multi-Behavior Sequential Transformer Recommender (2022) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation |
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| 29 | Ching Law | 44 | 3 | 55 MoFu: Scale-Aware Modulation and Fourier Fusion for Multi-Subject Video Generation (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 55 Uni-Layout: Integrating Human Feedback in Unified Layout Generation and Evaluation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders |
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| 30 | Hao Liu 0078 | 44 | 3 | 47 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment 44 MCRPL: A Pretrain, Prompt, and Fine-tune Paradigm for Non-overlapping Many-to-one Cross-domain Recommendation (2024) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR |
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| 31 | Bo Chen 0023 | 44 | 3 | 49 Generative Representational Learning of Foundation Models for Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking 45 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 32 | Wei Wei 0027 | 43 | 3 | 63 DiffMM: Multi-Modal Diffusion Model for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 53 PromptMM: Multi-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Recommendation with Prompt-Tuning (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation |
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| 33 | Jiancan Wu | 43 | 3 | 52 Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion (2023) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 49 Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders |