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Biological multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged as powerful foundation models for scientific discovery. However, existing models are specialized to a single modality, limiting their ability to solve inherently cross-modal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wonbin Lee , Dongki Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

There are a wide range of applications that involve multi-modal data, such as cross-modal retrieval, visual question-answering, and image captioning. Such applications are primarily dependent on aligned distributions of the different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Vishaal Udandarao , Abhishek Maiti , Deepak Srivatsav , Suryatej Reddy Vyalla , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Motion retrieval is crucial for motion acquisition, offering superior precision, realism, controllability, and editability compared to motion generation. Existing approaches leverage contrastive learning to construct a unified embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shiyao Yu , Zi-An Wang , Kangning Yin , Zheng Tian , Mingyuan Zhang , Weixin Si , Shihao Zou

We propose a meta-learning method for semi-supervised learning that learns from multiple tasks with heterogeneous attribute spaces. The existing semi-supervised meta-learning methods assume that all tasks share the same attribute space,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai

Answering multiple-choice questions in a setting in which no supporting documents are explicitly provided continues to stand as a core problem in natural language processing. The contribution of this article is two-fold. First, it describes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-15 George-Sebastian Pîrtoacă , Traian Rebedea , Stefan Ruseti

Learning multimodal representations involves integrating information from multiple heterogeneous sources of data. It is a challenging yet crucial area with numerous real-world applications in multimedia, affective computing, robotics,…

Traditional recommender systems heavily rely on ID features, which often encounter challenges related to cold-start and generalization. Modeling pre-extracted content features can mitigate these issues, but is still a suboptimal solution…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Xiuqi Deng , Lu Xu , Xiyao Li , Jinkai Yu , Erpeng Xue , Zhongyuan Wang , Di Zhang , Zhaojie Liu , Guorui Zhou , Yang Song , Na Mou , Shen Jiang , Han Li

DNN-based cross-modal retrieval has become a research hotspot, by which users can search results across various modalities like image and text. However, existing methods mainly focus on the pairwise correlation and reconstruction error of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Xin Huang , Yuxin Peng

With the emergence of deep learning, metric learning has gained significant popularity in numerous machine learning tasks dealing with complex and large-scale datasets, such as information retrieval, object recognition and recommendation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Imam Mustafa Kamal , Hyerim Bae , Ling Liu

Music retrieval and recommendation applications often rely on content features encoded as embeddings, which provide vector representations of items in a music dataset. Numerous complementary embeddings can be derived from processing items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Andres Ferraro , Jaehun Kim , Sergio Oramas , Andreas Ehmann , Fabien Gouyon

This paper introduces self-paced task selection to multitask learning, where instances from more closely related tasks are selected in a progression of easier-to-harder tasks, to emulate an effective human education strategy, but applied to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-20 Keerthiram Murugesan , Jaime Carbonell

Learning the embedding space, where semantically similar objects are located close together and dissimilar objects far apart, is a cornerstone of many computer vision applications. Existing approaches usually learn a single metric in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Vadim Tschernezki , Uta Büchler , Björn Ommer

Similarity between objects is multi-faceted and it can be easier for human annotators to measure it when the focus is on a specific aspect. We consider the problem of mapping objects into view-specific embeddings where the distance between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-08 Liwen Zhang , Subhransu Maji , Ryota Tomioka

Remote sensing image segmentation faces persistent challenges in distinguishing morphologically similar categories and adapting to diverse scene variations. While existing methods rely on implicit representation learning paradigms, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xuechao Zou , Yue Li , Shun Zhang , Kai Li , Shiying Wang , Pin Tao , Junliang Xing , Congyan Lang

There is a recent surge of interest in cross-modal representation learning corresponding to images and text. The main challenge lies in mapping images and text to a shared latent space where the embeddings corresponding to a similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Pradyumna Narayana , Aniket Pednekar , Abishek Krishnamoorthy , Kazoo Sone , Sugato Basu

With the rapid growth of social media platforms, users are sharing billions of multimedia posts containing audio, images, and text. Researchers have focused on building autonomous systems capable of processing such multimedia data to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Muhammad Saad Saeed , Shah Nawaz , Muhammad Haris Khan , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Karthik Nandakumar , Muhammad Haroon Yousaf , Arif Mahmood

Training recommender systems for next-item recommendation often requires unique embeddings to be learned for each item, which may take up most of the trainable parameters for a model. Shared embeddings, such as using content information,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 M. Jeffrey Mei , Florian Henkel , Samuel E. Sandberg , Oliver Bembom , Andreas F. Ehmann

Deep metric learning maps visually similar images onto nearby locations and visually dissimilar images apart from each other in an embedding manifold. The learning process is mainly based on the supplied image negative and positive training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Chang-Hui Liang , Wan-Lei Zhao , Run-Qing Chen

Learning semantically meaningful sentence embeddings is an open problem in natural language processing. In this work, we propose a sentence embedding learning approach that exploits both visual and textual information via a multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Miaoran Zhang , Marius Mosbach , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

Learning from human feedback has shown to be a useful approach in acquiring robot reward functions. However, expert feedback is often assumed to be drawn from an underlying unimodal reward function. This assumption does not always hold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Vivek Myers , Erdem Bıyık , Nima Anari , Dorsa Sadigh