Well Begun is Half Done: Training-Free and Model-Agnostic Semantically Guaranteed User Representation Initialization for Multimodal Recommendation.

@inproceedings{xu-2026-well, author = {Jinfeng Xu and Xuyun Zhang and Jinfeng Xu and Xuyun Zhang and Yifei Chen and Zheyu Chen and Jinze Li and Wai Lam and Yifei Chen and Zheyu Chen and Qiang He and Shuo Yang and Qiang He and Shuo Yang and Jinze Li and Wai Lam and Amin Beheshti and Hewei Wang and Jianheng Tang and Xiaolong Xu and Chao Yan and Wei Wang and Lianyong Qi and Xiping Hu and Edith C. H. Ngai}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Well Begun is Half Done: Training-Free and Model-Agnostic Semantically Guaranteed User Representation Initialization for Multimodal Recommendation}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {2096--2106}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809623}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809623} }