Anchored Alignment: Preventing Positional Collapse in Multimodal Recommender Systems

Code Introduction

We develop AnchorRec based on MMRec. Please refer to MMRec for data preparation and basic usage.

We add the following files for AnchorRec implementation:

src/anchorrec.py
src/configs/model/ANCHORREC.yaml

To run AnchorRec, you can either modify MMRec to include these files or simply run the provided bash run.sh script.

Environment Setup

To create the conda environment, run:

conda env create -f env.yaml

• python 3.8
• Torch 2.4.1