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Multimodal learning (MML) aims to jointly exploit the common priors of different modalities to compensate for their inherent limitations. However, existing MML methods often optimize a uniform objective for different modalities, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yunfeng Fan , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Junxiao Wang , Song Guo

Missing or corrupted modalities are common in physiological signal-based medical applications owing to hardware constraints or motion artifacts. However, most existing methods assume the availability of all modalities, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Cheol-Hui Lee , Hwa-Yeon Lee , Min-Kyung Jung , Dong-Joo Kim

Attention-based multiple instance learning (MIL) has emerged as a powerful framework for whole slide image (WSI) diagnosis, leveraging attention to aggregate instance-level features into bag-level predictions. Despite this success, we find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Linfeng Ye , Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Zhixiang Chi , Guang Li , Mert Pilanci , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Multimodal learning has increasingly become a focal point in research, primarily due to its ability to integrate complementary information from diverse modalities. Nevertheless, modality imbalance, stemming from factors such as insufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Rongrong Xie , Guido Sanguinetti

Missing modality issues are common in real-world applications, arising from factors such as equipment failures and privacy concerns. When fine-tuning pre-trained models on downstream datasets with missing modalities, performance can degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zirun Guo , Shulei Wang , Wang Lin , Weicai Yan , Yangyang Wu , Tao Jin

Multimodal data collected from the real world are often imperfect due to missing modalities. Therefore multimodal models that are robust against modal-incomplete data are highly preferred. Recently, Transformer models have shown great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Mengmeng Ma , Jian Ren , Long Zhao , Davide Testuggine , Xi Peng

Incremental learning aims to enable models to continuously acquire knowledge from evolving data streams while preserving previously learned capabilities. While current research predominantly focuses on unimodal incremental learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yaguang Song , Xiaoshan Yang , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Multimodal demonstrations provide robots with an abundance of information to make sense of the world. However, such abundance may not always lead to good performance when it comes to learning sensorimotor control policies from human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yilun Hao , Ruinan Wang , Zhangjie Cao , Zihan Wang , Yuchen Cui , Dorsa Sadigh

We present MILS: Multimodal Iterative LLM Solver, a surprisingly simple, training-free approach, to imbue multimodal capabilities into your favorite LLM. Leveraging their innate ability to perform multi-step reasoning, MILS prompts the LLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Kumar Ashutosh , Yossi Gandelsman , Xinlei Chen , Ishan Misra , Rohit Girdhar

In this work, we address the problem of learning an ensemble of specialist networks using multimodal data, while considering the realistic and challenging scenario of possible missing modalities at test time. Our goal is to leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Nuno C. Garcia , Sarah Adel Bargal , Vitaly Ablavsky , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino , Stan Sclaroff

Federated learning (FL) has obtained tremendous progress in providing collaborative training solutions for distributed data silos with privacy guarantees. However, few existing works explore a more realistic scenario where the clients hold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Liwei Che , Jiaqi Wang , Xinyue Liu , Fenglong Ma

Recently, pathological diagnosis has achieved superior performance by combining deep learning models with the multiple instance learning (MIL) framework using whole slide images (WSIs). However, the giga-pixeled nature of WSIs poses a great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zijie Fang , Yifeng Wang , Ye Zhang , Zhi Wang , Jian Zhang , Xiangyang Ji , Yongbing Zhang

To address the modality learning degeneration caused by modality imbalance, existing multimodal learning~(MML) approaches primarily attempt to balance the optimization process of each modality from the perspective of model learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Qingyuan Jiang , Zhouyang Chi , Xiao Ma , Qirong Mao , Yang Yang , Jinhui Tang

The missing modality problem poses a fundamental challenge in multimodal sentiment analysis, significantly degrading model accuracy and generalization in real world scenarios. Existing approaches primarily improve robustness through prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Rongfei Chen , Tingting Zhang , Xiaoyu Shen , Wei Zhang

The development of multimodal models has significantly advanced multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition. However, in real-world applications, the presence of various missing modality cases often leads to a degradation in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zirun Guo , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Radiologists must utilize multiple modal images for tumor segmentation and diagnosis due to the limitations of medical imaging and the diversity of tumor signals. This leads to the development of multimodal learning in segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Chuyun Shen , Wenhao Li , Haoqing Chen , Xiaoling Wang , Fengping Zhu , Yuxin Li , Xiangfeng Wang , Bo Jin

Multimodal information retrieval (MIR) faces inherent challenges due to the heterogeneity of data sources and the complexity of cross-modal alignment. While previous studies have identified modal gaps in feature spaces, a systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Fanheng Kong , Jingyuan Zhang , Yahui Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Yu Tian , Victoria W. , Fuzheng Zhang , Guorui Zhou

Multimodal learning with incomplete input data (missing modality) is practical and challenging. In this work, we conduct an in-depth analysis of this challenge and find that modality dominance has a significant negative impact on the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Hao Wang , Shengda Luo , Guosheng Hu , Jianguo Zhang

Multimodal clinical prediction faces three challenges: multiple foundation models (FMs) with complementary strengths per modality, pervasive missing modalities at training and test time, and sample-specific variation in modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Seungik Cho , Anqi Li , Wei Qiu

Multi-modal semantic segmentation (MMSS) addresses the limitations of single-modality data by integrating complementary information across modalities. Despite notable progress, a significant gap persists between research and real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Chenfei Liao , Kaiyu Lei , Xu Zheng , Junha Moon , Zhixiong Wang , Yixuan Wang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Xuming Hu