Clothing Recommendation with Multimodal Feature Fusion: Price Sensitivity and Personalization Optimization

The rapid growth in the global apparel market and the rise of online consumption underscore the necessity for intelligent clothing recommendation systems that balance visual compatibility with personalized preferences, particularly price sensitivity. Existing recommendation systems often neglect nua...

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Main Authors: Chunhui Zhang, Xiaofen Ji, Liling Cai
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
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description The rapid growth in the global apparel market and the rise of online consumption underscore the necessity for intelligent clothing recommendation systems that balance visual compatibility with personalized preferences, particularly price sensitivity. Existing recommendation systems often neglect nuanced consumer price behaviors, limiting their ability to deliver truly personalized suggestions. To address this gap, we propose DeepFMP, a multimodal deep learning framework that integrates visual, textual, and price features through an enhanced DeepFM architecture. Leveraging the IQON3000 dataset, our model employs ResNet-50 and BERT for image and text feature extraction, alongside a comprehensive price feature module capturing individual, statistical, and category-specific price patterns. An attention mechanism optimizes multimodal fusion, enabling robust modeling of user preferences. Comparative experiments demonstrate that DeepFMP outperforms state-of-the-art baselines (LR, FM, Wide & Deep, GP-BPR, and DeepFM), achieving AUC improvements of 1.6–12.2% and NDCG@10 gains of up to 3.2%. Case analyses further reveal that DeepFMP effectively improves the recommendation accuracy, offering actionable insights for personalized marketing. This work advances multimodal recommendation systems by emphasizing price sensitivity as a pivotal factor, providing a scalable solution for enhancing user satisfaction and commercial efficacy in fashion e-commerce.
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spelling doaj-art-d34d9700b86e43f590fc6d4f95a37e112025-08-20T02:28:16ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172025-04-01158459110.3390/app15084591Clothing Recommendation with Multimodal Feature Fusion: Price Sensitivity and Personalization OptimizationChunhui Zhang0Xiaofen Ji1Liling Cai2School of Fashion Design and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, ChinaInternational Fashion Technology College, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, ChinaInternational Fashion Technology College, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, ChinaThe rapid growth in the global apparel market and the rise of online consumption underscore the necessity for intelligent clothing recommendation systems that balance visual compatibility with personalized preferences, particularly price sensitivity. Existing recommendation systems often neglect nuanced consumer price behaviors, limiting their ability to deliver truly personalized suggestions. To address this gap, we propose DeepFMP, a multimodal deep learning framework that integrates visual, textual, and price features through an enhanced DeepFM architecture. Leveraging the IQON3000 dataset, our model employs ResNet-50 and BERT for image and text feature extraction, alongside a comprehensive price feature module capturing individual, statistical, and category-specific price patterns. An attention mechanism optimizes multimodal fusion, enabling robust modeling of user preferences. Comparative experiments demonstrate that DeepFMP outperforms state-of-the-art baselines (LR, FM, Wide & Deep, GP-BPR, and DeepFM), achieving AUC improvements of 1.6–12.2% and NDCG@10 gains of up to 3.2%. Case analyses further reveal that DeepFMP effectively improves the recommendation accuracy, offering actionable insights for personalized marketing. This work advances multimodal recommendation systems by emphasizing price sensitivity as a pivotal factor, providing a scalable solution for enhancing user satisfaction and commercial efficacy in fashion e-commerce.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/8/4591deep learningmultimodal fusionconsumer preferencegarment recommendationprice sensitivity
spellingShingle Chunhui Zhang
Xiaofen Ji
Liling Cai
Clothing Recommendation with Multimodal Feature Fusion: Price Sensitivity and Personalization Optimization
Applied Sciences
deep learning
multimodal fusion
consumer preference
garment recommendation
price sensitivity
title Clothing Recommendation with Multimodal Feature Fusion: Price Sensitivity and Personalization Optimization
title_full Clothing Recommendation with Multimodal Feature Fusion: Price Sensitivity and Personalization Optimization
title_fullStr Clothing Recommendation with Multimodal Feature Fusion: Price Sensitivity and Personalization Optimization
title_full_unstemmed Clothing Recommendation with Multimodal Feature Fusion: Price Sensitivity and Personalization Optimization
title_short Clothing Recommendation with Multimodal Feature Fusion: Price Sensitivity and Personalization Optimization
title_sort clothing recommendation with multimodal feature fusion price sensitivity and personalization optimization
topic deep learning
multimodal fusion
consumer preference
garment recommendation
price sensitivity
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/8/4591
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