GP-BPR: Personalized Compatibility Modeling for Clothing Matching

Clothing matching has become an indispensable aspect of people's daily life, where complementary fashion items (e.g., the tops and bottoms) are coordinated to make proper outfits. Owing to the recent advances in the multimedia processing domain and the publicly available large-scale real-world data provided by online fashion communities, like the IQON and Chictopia, researchers are enabled to investigate the automatic clothing matching solutions. In a sense, existing methods mainly focus on modeling the general item-item compatibility from the aesthetic perspective, but fail to incorporate the user factor. In fact, aesthetics can be highly subjective, as different people may hold different clothing preferences. In light of this, in this work, we attempt to tackle the problem of personalized compatibility modeling from not only the general aesthetics but also the personal preference perspectives. In particular, we present a personalized compatibility modeling scheme GP-BPR, comprising of two essential components: general compatibility modeling and personal preference modeling, which characterize the item-item and user-item interactions, respectively. In particular, due to the concern that both the modalities (e.g., the image and context description) of fashion items can deliver important cues regarding user personal preference, we present a comprehensive personal preference modeling method. Moreover, for evaluation, we create a large-scale dataset, IQON3000, from the online fashion community IQON. Extensive experiment results on IQON3000 verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. As a byproduct, we have released the dataset, codes, and involved parameters to benefit other researchers.