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Robust Multimodal Recommendation via Graph Retrieval-Enhanced Modality Completion

sigir26-083 · Full research paper · Yuan Li, Jun Hu, Jiaxin Jiang, Bryan Hooi, Bingsheng He
Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervise · 50% Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervise · 25% Multimodal Denoising and Robustness · 25%
Abstract

Multimodal data plays a critical role in web-based recommendation systems, where information from diverse modalities such as vision and text enhances representation learning. However, real-world multimodal datasets often suffer from modality incompleteness due to sensor failures, annotation scarcity, or privacy constraints, which substantially degrade model performance and reliability. One effective solution to address this issue is modality completion, which reconstructs missing features to provide modality-complete graphs for downstream tasks. Given a query node with missing multimodal features, existing modality completion methods typically infer information from the node itself or its neighbors to reconstruct the missing modality. However, these methods may overlook semantically relevant context in the graph, which contains valuable cues that are non-trivial to capture through simple methods like neighborhood aggregation. In this work, we propose GRE-MC, a Graph Retrieval–Enhanced Modality Completion framework, to overcome these limitations. By introducing a modality-aware subgraph retrieval mechanism, GRE-MC selects semantically relevant subgraphs from the entire graph, providing richer contextual information for completing missing modalities. Subsequently, a graph transformer jointly encodes the query node and the retrieved subgraph via global attention to complete the missing features, while a learnable sparse-routing codebook regularizes latent embeddings into compact bases for improved robustness. Extensive experiments on multimodal recommendation benchmarks demonstrate that GRE-MC consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, validating the effectiveness of subgraph retrieval and joint-encoding graph transformer for robust modality completion.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Lianghao Xia
62
84 LightGCL: Simple Yet Effective Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
84 Automated Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
83 Self-Supervised Hypergraph Transformer for Recommender Systems (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
2 Jiuqiang Li 0002
60
62 Multi-view Semantic Contrastive Alignment for Multimodal Recommendation (2026) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
59 Graph Diffusive Self-Supervised Learning for Social Recommendation (2024) Social and Group Recommendation
47 Disentangled Contrastive Bundle Recommendation with Conditional Diffusion (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
3 Xubin Ren
55
70 LightGCL: Simple Yet Effective Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
70 SSLRec: A Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
69 Disentangled Contrastive Collaborative Filtering (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Leyu Lin 46
Area-chair candidates (4)
Leyu Lin assigned 4615 papers
Weiming Liu 0005 448 papers
Qiaoyu Tan 437 papers
Kun Gai 395 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Yinwei Wei COI: co-author 74 3
100 Modality-Independent Graph Neural Networks with Global Transformers for Multimodal Recommendation (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
100 Multi-modal Bipartite Graph Structure Learning with Information Bottleneck for Micro-video Recommendation (2026) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
2 Lianghao Xia assigned 62 3
84 LightGCL: Simple Yet Effective Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
84 Automated Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
3 Ke Wang 0038 60 3
85 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
85 Multi-aspect Graph Contrastive Learning for Review-enhanced Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
4 Jiuqiang Li 0002 assigned 60 3
62 Multi-view Semantic Contrastive Alignment for Multimodal Recommendation (2026) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
59 Graph Diffusive Self-Supervised Learning for Social Recommendation (2024) Social and Group Recommendation
5 Mengyuan Jing 60 3
70 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
70 Graph Contrastive Learning with Adaptive Augmentation for Recommendation (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
6 Yi Zhang 0103 56 3
84 MixRec: Individual and Collective Mixing Empowers Data Augmentation for Recommender Systems (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
84 Unveiling Contrastive Learning's Capability of Neighborhood Aggregation for Collaborative Filtering (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
7 Xubin Ren assigned 55 3
70 LightGCL: Simple Yet Effective Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
70 SSLRec: A Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
8 Dongxiao He 52 3
70 Self-Supervised Graph Neural Networks via Diverse and Interactive Message Passing (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
70 A New Mechanism for Eliminating Implicit Conflict in Graph Contrastive Learning (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
9 Wei Wei 0027 52 3
69 Multi-Modal Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
69 Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
10 Chunyang Wang 0001 51 3
100 Guiding Graph Learning with Denoised Modality for Multi-modal Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
85 Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
11 Xin Zhang 0091 48 3
48 Multi-Modal Correction Network for Recommendation (2025) Multimodal Denoising and Robustness
43 Deep Dynamic Interest Learning With Session Local and Global Consistency for Click-Through Rate Predictions (2022) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
12 Yongjing Hao 46 3
83 LMACL: Improving Graph Collaborative Filtering with Learnable Model Augmentation Contrastive Learning (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
83 Meta-optimized Structural and Semantic Contrastive Learning for Graph Collaborative Filtering (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
14 Miaomiao Cai 0001 45 3
54 I3-MRec: Invariant Learning with Information Bottleneck for Incomplete Modality Recommendation (2025) Multimodal Denoising and Robustness
54 Multimodality Invariant Learning for Multimedia-Based New Item Recommendation (2024) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation
15 Xiaolong Liu 0012 45 3
60 Graph-based Alignment and Uniformity for Recommendation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning
59 Group Identification via Transitional Hypergraph Convolution with Cross-view Self-supervised Learning (2023) Social and Group Recommendation
16 Lantao Hu 45 3
70 Towards Robust Recommendation via Decision Boundary-aware Graph Contrastive Learning (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
58 Soft Contrastive Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
17 Hao Deng 0011 45 3
50 ESANS: Effective and Semantic-Aware Negative Sampling for Large-Scale Retrieval Systems (2025) Multimodal Denoising and Robustness
44 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
19 Bowen Zheng 0005 44 3
84 Enhancing Graph Contrastive Learning with Reliable and Informative Augmentation for Recommendation (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
43 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
20 Chen Wang 0052 43 3
60 Graph-based Alignment and Uniformity for Recommendation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning
48 Group Identification via Transitional Hypergraph Convolution with Cross-view Self-supervised Learning (2023) Social and Group Recommendation
21 Jiancan Wu 43 3
84 Self-supervised Graph Learning for Recommendation (2021) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
82 Graph Contrastive Learning With Negative Propagation for Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
23 Yong He 0009 43 3
60 Global-Aware Model-Free Self-distillation for Recommendation System (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
44 The Devil is in the Sources! Knowledge Enhanced Cross-Domain Recommendation in an Information Bottleneck Perspective (2024) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR
24 Min Hou 0004 43 3
54 Unified Representation Learning for Discrete Attribute Enhanced Completely Cold-Start Recommendation (2025) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
54 Multimodality Invariant Learning for Multimedia-Based New Item Recommendation (2024) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation
25 Yixin Liu 0001 COI: co-author 42 3
70 Learning Strong Graph Neural Networks with Weak Information (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
70 Beyond Smoothing: Unsupervised Graph Representation Learning with Edge Heterophily Discriminating (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
26 Jiangxia Cao 42 3
58 QARM: Quantitative Alignment Multi-Modal Recommendation at Kuaishou (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
44 Disentangled Representations Learning for Multi-target Cross-domain Recommendation (2023) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR
27 Mingdai Yang 42 3
60 Graph-based Alignment and Uniformity for Recommendation (2023) Graph-based User and Item Representation Learning
59 Group Identification via Transitional Hypergraph Convolution with Cross-view Self-supervised Learning (2023) Social and Group Recommendation
28 Lingling Yi 42 3
72 Dual Interests-Aligned Graph Auto-Encoders for Cross-domain Recommendation in WeChat (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
67 Item-Provider Co-learning for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
29 Lichan Hong 41 3
60 Self-supervised Learning for Large-scale Item Recommendations (2021) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
44 Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
30 Yongxin Ni 41 3
55 Teach Me How to Denoise: A Universal Framework for Denoising Multi-modal Recommender Systems via Guided Calibration (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
46 Causality-Inspired Fair Representation Learning for Multimodal Recommendation (2025) Bias Mitigation Methods
31 Riwei Lai 41 3
53 Disentangled Negative Sampling for Collaborative Filtering (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
40 DAR: Dimension-Adaptive Recommendation with Multi-Granular Noise Control (2025) Robustness to Noise and Distribution Shift
32 Jinxin Hu 41 3
59 Distribution-Guided Auto-Encoder for User Multimodal Interest Cross Fusion (2025) Content-Based Transferable Recommendation
50 ESANS: Effective and Semantic-Aware Negative Sampling for Large-Scale Retrieval Systems (2025) Multimodal Denoising and Robustness
33 Ed H. Chi 41 3
60 Self-supervised Learning for Large-scale Item Recommendations (2021) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
44 Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs