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LightCRS: Lightweight Multi-Domain Conversational Recommendation System

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Briefings

LightCRS is a query-conditioned framework that unifies multi-domain conversational recommendation by precomputing multimodal representations offline and using a shared 5.3M-parameter module for online fusion. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the MM-R2A-25 benchmark, improving HR@1 by 35.4% over the strongest baseline and reducing per-query latency by 266 times. Joint multi-domain training also boosts HR@1 by 15.2% compared to single-domain models.

Key points

• LightCRS uses a shared 5.3M-parameter module to fuse multimodal representations for each dialogue via query-conditioned cross-attention.
• The framework achieves state-of-the-art HR@1 improvement of 35.4% over the strongest baseline on the MM-R2A-25 benchmark.

Context

Conversational recommender systems recently adopted vision-language models to match user dialogue with product information, but extending these methods to many domains faces a dilemma: deploying a separately adapted VLM per domain scales cost linearly with the number of domains, while naively merging all domains into a single VLM degrades accuracy due to varying product characteristics across categories.

Limitations

The evaluation is limited to the MM-R2A-25 benchmark constructed from Reddit conversations and Amazon listings. The framework's performance on other domains or specific product categories remains unverified, and the 266x latency reduction is a per-query metric without broader latency context.

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