| Challenge: | Empirical studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach to cross-media user profiling tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a uniform user embedding learning approach to address cross-media user profiling by bridging the knowledge between the source and target media. |
| Outcome: | Empirical results show that the proposed approach performs well on two cross-media user profiling tasks. |
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