Hang-Tong Xu

Three Minds, One Student: Online Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Recommenders

Existing multimodal recommendation models using complex fusion mechanisms (e.g., attention) or multi-stage processes (e.g., early or late fusion) integrate different modalities. However, attention-based adaptive fusion is prone to shortcut learning, where dominant collaborative signals (ID) can overshadow other modalit...