Challenge: Existing research focuses solely on text, leaving a gap with practical applications.
Approach: They propose to synthesize a multimodal conversational recommendation dataset using multimodal large language models to automatically synthesized data from 7,000 conversations in the Clothing domain.
Outcome: The proposed dataset contains 83,148 utterances from 7,000 conversations centered around the Clothing domain.

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