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Multimodal learning seeks to combine data from multiple input sources to enhance the performance of different downstream tasks. In real-world scenarios, performance can degrade substantially if some input modalities are missing. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Niki Nezakati , Md Kaykobad Reza , Ameya Patil , Mashhour Solh , M. Salman Asif

Effective fusion of data from multiple modalities, such as video, speech, and text, is challenging due to the heterogeneous nature of multimodal data. In this paper, we propose adaptive fusion techniques that aim to model context from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Gaurav Sahu , Olga Vechtomova

We develop new algorithms for simultaneous learning of multiple tasks (e.g., image classification, depth estimation), and for adapting to unseen task/domain distributions within those high-level tasks (e.g., different environments). First,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Kiran Lekkala , Laurent Itti

Multimodal few-shot learning is challenging due to the large domain gap between vision and language modalities. Existing methods are trying to communicate visual concepts as prompts to frozen language models, but rely on hand-engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ivona Najdenkoska , Xiantong Zhen , Marcel Worring

Artificial intelligence for graphs has achieved remarkable success in modeling complex systems, ranging from dynamic networks in biology to interacting particle systems in physics. However, the increasingly heterogeneous graph datasets call…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yasha Ektefaie , George Dasoulas , Ayush Noori , Maha Farhat , Marinka Zitnik

Multi-modal learning, which focuses on utilizing various modalities to improve the performance of a model, is widely used in video recognition. While traditional multi-modal learning offers excellent recognition results, its computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Rameswar Panda , Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Ximeng Sun , Kate Saenko , Aude Oliva , Rogerio Feris

Vision and language tasks have benefited from attention. There have been a number of different attention models proposed. However, the scale at which attention needs to be applied has not been well examined. Particularly, in this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Badri N. Patro , Shivansh Patel , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Modeling attention in neural multi-source sequence-to-sequence learning remains a relatively unexplored area, despite its usefulness in tasks that incorporate multiple source languages or modalities. We propose two novel approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Jindřich Libovický , Jindřich Helcl

Modularity has been widely studied as a mechanism to improve the capabilities of neural networks through various techniques such as hand-crafted modular architectures and automatic approaches. While these methods have sometimes shown…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Humphrey Munn , Marcus Gallagher

Transformers are increasingly dominating multi-modal reasoning tasks, such as visual question answering, achieving state-of-the-art results thanks to their ability to contextualize information using the self-attention and co-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hila Chefer , Shir Gur , Lior Wolf

Social Media Popularity Prediction is a complex multimodal task that requires effective integration of images, text, and structured information. However, current approaches suffer from inadequate visual-textual alignment and fail to capture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ao Zhou , Mingsheng Tu , Luping Wang , Tenghao Sun , Zifeng Cheng , Yafeng Yin , Zhiwei Jiang , Qing Gu

Neural network pretraining is gaining attention due to its outstanding performance in natural language processing applications. However, pretraining usually leverages predefined task sequences to learn general linguistic clues. The lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Hongyin Luo , Shuyan Dong , Yung-Sung Chuang , Shang-Wen Li

The natural world is abundant with concepts expressed via visual, acoustic, tactile, and linguistic modalities. Much of the existing progress in multimodal learning, however, focuses primarily on problems where the same set of modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Paul Pu Liang , Peter Wu , Liu Ziyin , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Different from the emotion recognition in individual utterances, we propose a multimodal learning framework using relation and dependencies among the utterances for conversational emotion analysis. The attention mechanism is applied to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zheng Lian , Jianhua Tao , Bin Liu , Jian Huang

Deep neural networks, including recurrent networks, have been successfully applied to human activity recognition. Unfortunately, the final representation learned by recurrent networks might encode some noise (irrelevant signal components,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Ming Zeng , Haoxiang Gao , Tong Yu , Ole J. Mengshoel , Helge Langseth , Ian Lane , Xiaobing Liu

This study systematically investigates two multi-fidelity strategies used to train machine-learned force fields (MLFFs) -- pre-training/fine-tuning and multi-headed training -- and elucidates the mechanisms underpinning their success. For…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 John L. A. Gardner , Hannes Schulz , Jean Helie , Lixin Sun , Gregor N. C. Simm

Neural network pruning is useful for discovering efficient, high-performing subnetworks within pre-trained, dense network architectures. More often than not, it involves a three-step process -- pre-training, pruning, and re-training -- that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-24 Cameron R. Wolfe , Fangshuo Liao , Qihan Wang , Junhyung Lyle Kim , Anastasios Kyrillidis

We present an efficient approach for leveraging the knowledge from multiple modalities in training unimodal 3D convolutional neural networks (3D-CNNs) for the task of dynamic hand gesture recognition. Instead of explicitly combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mahdi Abavisani , Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Vishal M. Patel

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to predict sentiment from language, acoustic, and visual data in videos. However, imbalanced unimodal performance often leads to suboptimal fused representations. Existing approaches typically adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Dingkang Yang , Mingcheng Li , Xuecheng Wu , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Keliang Liu , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

Currently successful methods for video description are based on encoder-decoder sentence generation using recur-rent neural networks (RNNs). Recent work has shown the advantage of integrating temporal and/or spatial attention mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Chiori Hori , Takaaki Hori , Teng-Yok Lee , Kazuhiro Sumi , John R. Hershey , Tim K. Marks