1.School of Computer Science and Engineering, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, China
2.Key Laboratory of Characteristic Agrometeorological Disaster Monitoring, Early Warning and Risk Management in Arid Regions China Meteorological Administration, Yinchuan 750002, China
3.Ningxia Key Lab of Meteorological Disaster Prevention and Reduction, Yinchuan 750002, China
4.Institute of Meteorological Sciences in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan 750002, China
Recommendation systems often suffer from insufficient utilization of multi-modal information and noisy interaction data. To address these issues, this paper proposes a hierarchical topology-enhanced multi-modal recommendation method from an interaction denoising perspective. The method employs hierarchical anchor topology embedding, which performs stratified anchor sampling based on node activity levels to model global relationships, thereby mitigating over-smoothing and capturing long-range dependencies. Based on self-supervised learning, a learnable generator is designed to produce user multi-modal preferences and denoised interaction graphs, enabling bidirectional collaborative updating between user preferences and interaction graphs. A "graph-structure-modality" consistency constraint is incorporated to effectively suppress interaction noise. Experiments conducted on three real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves average improvements of 2.37% and 3.27% on Recall@20 and NDCG@20 metrics, respectively, compared with 13 baseline models.
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