Marta Moscati

I am a physicist turned computer scientist, currently a PhD student at the Multimedia Mining and Search Group of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. I am also Applied Scientist (L5) at Albatross AI.

My (current) fields of research are multimodal learning and recommender systems. I have a PhD in theoretical particle physics.

I love understanding and discussing maths and science. I have a passion for music and books. I enjoy doing sports. I have a thing for languages.

selected publications

SwapRec: Warming Up Cold Items Through Training-Time Similar-Content Swaps

Marta Moscati, Jan Malte Lichtenberg, Davide Abbattista, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of DaQuaMRec 2026, the 2nd International Workshop on Data Quality-Aware Multimodal Recommendation, co-located with the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2026), September 28 - October 2, 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA., Sep 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{Moscati2026SwapRec,
  title = {SwapRec: Warming Up Cold Items Through Training-Time Similar-Content Swaps},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Lichtenberg, Jan Malte and Abbattista, Davide and Candia, Antonio De and Boggia, Laura and Ruffini, Matteo},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of DaQuaMRec 2026, the 2nd International Workshop on Data Quality-Aware Multimodal Recommendation, co-located with the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2026), September 28 - October 2, 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  phd_relevant = {false}
}

Emotion-calibrated Music Recommendation

Marta Moscati, Emra Gurung, Shah Nawaz, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of MuRS 2026, the 4th Workshop Music Recommender Systems Workshop, co-located with the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2026), September 28 - October 2, 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA., Sep 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{Moscati2026EmotionCalibration,
  title = {Emotion-calibrated Music Recommendation},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Gurung, Emra and Nawaz, Shah and Swain, Monorama and Schedl, Markus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of MuRS 2026, the 4th Workshop Music Recommender Systems Workshop, co-located with the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2026), September 28 - October 2, 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  phd_relevant = {true}
}

Calibrating Recommendations on Ordinal Attributes

Marta Moscati, Varvara Toloknova, Oleg Lesota, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2026), Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, Sep 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{Moscati2026OrdinalCalibration,
  title = {Calibrating Recommendations on Ordinal Attributes},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Toloknova, Varvara and Lesota, Oleg and Schedl, Markus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2026)},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  location = {Minneapolis, Minnesota, US},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  phd_relevant = {true}
}

SPRIG: Semantic-ID-enhanced Paths for Knowledge Graph-based Generative Recommendation

Justin Hangoebl, Marta Moscati, Alessandro B. Melchiorre, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM), Rome, Italy, Nov 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{JustinHangoebl2026SPRIG,
  title = {SPRIG: Semantic-ID-enhanced Paths for Knowledge Graph-based Generative Recommendation},
  author = {Hangoebl, Justin and Moscati, Marta and Melchiorre, Alessandro B. and Nawaz, Shah and Schedl, Markus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM)},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  location = {Rome, Italy},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  phd_relevant = {false}
}

Networked Tastes: Homophily for Music Recommendation

Marta Moscati, Xinwei Xu, and Markus Schedl

In Workshops Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), Gothenburg, Sweden, Jun 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{Moscati2026NetworkedTastes,
  title = {Networked Tastes: Homophily for Music Recommendation},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Xu, Xinwei and Schedl, Markus},
  booktitle = {Workshops Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP)},
  location = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  phd_relevant = {false}
}

Parameter-Efficient Single Collaborative Branch for Recommendation

Marta Moscati, Shah Nawaz, and Markus Schedl

In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Sep 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Moscati2025CoBraR,
  title = {Parameter-Efficient Single Collaborative Branch for Recommendation},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Nawaz, Shah and Schedl, Markus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3705328.3759302},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3705328.3759302},
  pages = {1256–1260},
  year = {2025},
  month = sep,
  phd_relevant = {false}
}

Audio, Lyrics, Videoclips, Interactions? An Analysis of Uni- and Multi-Modal Music Retrieval Systems in Terms of Accuracy and Beyond-Accuracy Aspects

Marta Moscati, Gustavo Escobedo, Eduardo Hernandez, and 2 more authors

In Proc. of the Workshop on Music Recommender Systems (MuRS) co-located with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), Prague, Czech Republic, Sep 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{moscati2025multimodal_music_retrieval,
  title = {Audio, Lyrics, Videoclips, Interactions? An Analysis of Uni- and Multi-Modal Music Retrieval Systems in Terms of Accuracy and Beyond-Accuracy Aspects},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Escobedo, Gustavo and Hernandez, Eduardo and Pech\'{e}, Jonas and Schedl, Markus},
  booktitle = {Proc. of the Workshop on Music Recommender Systems (MuRS) co-located with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys)},
  location = {Prague, Czech Republic},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4045/},
  month = sep,
  phd_relevant = {true}
}

Familiarizing with Music: Discovery Patterns for Different Music Discovery Needs

Marta Moscati, Afchar Darius, Markus Schedl, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, New York, NY, United States, Jun 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Moscati2025UMAP_discoveryPattern,
  title = {Familiarizing with Music: Discovery Patterns for Different Music Discovery Needs},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Darius, Afchar and Schedl, Markus and Bruno, Sguerra},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3699682.3728333},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3699682},
  pages = {63-73},
  month = jun,
  location = {New York, NY, United States},
  year = {2025},
  phd_relevant = {false}
}

A Multimodal Single-Branch Embedding Network for Recommendation in Cold-Start and Missing Modality Scenarios

Christian Ganhör^*, Marta Moscati^*, Anna Hausberger, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), Bari, Italy, Oct 2024

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{ganhoer_moscati2024sibrar,
  title = {A Multimodal Single-Branch Embedding Network for Recommendation in Cold-Start and Missing Modality Scenarios},
  author = {Ganhör, Christian and Moscati, Marta and Hausberger, Anna and Nawaz, Shah and Schedl, Markus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys)},
  publisher = {*\textbf{Equal contributions}},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3688138},
  doi = {10.1145/3640457.3688138},
  pages = {380–390},
  location = {Bari, Italy},
  year = {2024},
  month = oct,
  phd_relevant = {true}
}

Emotion-Based Music Recommendation from Quality Annotations and Large-Scale User-Generated Tags

Marta Moscati, Hannah Strauß, Peer-Ole Jacobsen, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), Cagliari, Italy, Jun 2024

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Moscati2024emomrs,
  title = {Emotion-Based Music Recommendation from Quality Annotations and Large-Scale User-Generated Tags},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Strauß, Hannah and Jacobsen, Peer-Ole and Peintner, Andreas and Zangerle, Eva and Zentner, Marcel and Schedl, Markus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP)},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3627043.3659540},
  location = {Cagliari, Italy},
  year = {2024},
  month = jun,
  phd_relevant = {true}
}

Integrating the ACT-R Framework with Collaborative Filtering for Explainable Sequential Music Recommendation

Marta Moscati, Christian Wallmann, Markus Reiter-Haas, and 3 more authors

In Proc. of ACM RecSys, Singapore, Sep 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{Moscati2023actr_cf_music,
  title = {Integrating the ACT-R Framework with Collaborative Filtering for Explainable Sequential Music Recommendation},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Wallmann, Christian and Reiter-Haas, Markus and Kowald, Dominik and Lex, Elisabeth and Schedl, Markus},
  booktitle = {Proc. of ACM RecSys},
  location = {Singapore},
  year = {2023},
  month = sep,
  phd_relevant = {false}
}

Music4All-Onion – A Large-Scale Multi-Faceted Content-Centric Music Recommendation Dataset

Marta Moscati, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Yashar Deldjoo, and 2 more authors

In Proc. of CIKM, Oct 2022

Bib

@inproceedings{onion,
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Parada-Cabaleiro, Emilia and Deldjoo, Yashar and Zangerle, Eva and Schedl, Markus},
  title = {Music4All-Onion -- A Large-Scale Multi-Faceted Content-Centric Music Recommendation Dataset},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {Proc. of CIKM},
  pages = {4339–4343},
  numpages = {5},
  month = oct,
  phd_relevant = {true}
}

Face-Voice Association with Inductive Bias for Maximum Class Separation

Marta Moscati, Oleksandr Kats, Mubashir Noman, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{Moscati2026ICASSP_MSM,
  title = {Face-Voice Association with Inductive Bias for Maximum Class Separation},
  author = {Moscati, Marta and Kats, Oleksandr and Noman, Mubashir and Zaheer, Muhammad Zaigham and Hou, Yufang and Schedl, Markus and Nawaz, Shah},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  year = {2026},
  month = may,
  phd_relevant = {false}
}