Scalable and Explainable Outfit Generation

We present an end-to-end system for learning outfit recommendations. The core problem we address is how a customer can receive clothing/accessory recommendations based on a current outfit and what type of item the customer wishes to add to the outfit. Using a repository of coherent and stylish outfits, we leverage self-attention to learn a mapping from the current outfit and the customer-requested category to a visual descriptor output. This output is then fed into nearest-neighbor-based visual search, which, during training, is learned via triplet loss and mini-batch retrievals. At inference time, we use a beam search with a desired outfit composition to generate outfits at scale. Moreover, the attention networks provide a diagnostic look into the recommendation process, serving as a fashion-based sanity check.