Beyond Modality Harmony: Orthogonal Purification and Topology-Guided MoE for Conflict-Aware Multimodal Recommendation

Multimodal Recommender Systems (MRSs) typically rely on a flawed "modality harmony" assumption, presuming that multimodal features are inherently beneficial and strictly aligned with users' collaborative interaction patterns. However, modality-topology conflicts are ubiquitous in real-world scenario