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Multimodal sentiment analysis is a core research area that studies speaker sentiment expressed from the language, visual, and acoustic modalities. The central challenge in multimodal learning involves inferring joint representations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Hai Pham , Paul Pu Liang , Thomas Manzini , Louis-Philippe Morency , Barnabas Poczos

We propose to improve transformers of a specific modality with irrelevant data from other modalities, e.g., improve an ImageNet model with audio or point cloud datasets. We would like to highlight that the data samples of the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yiyuan Zhang , Xiaohan Ding , Kaixiong Gong , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Xiangyu Yue

Multimodal learning aims to build models that can process and relate information from multiple modalities. Despite years of development in this field, it still remains challenging to design a unified network for processing various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yiyuan Zhang , Kaixiong Gong , Kaipeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao , Wanli Ouyang , Xiangyu Yue

Multimodal learning often relies on aligning representations across modalities to enable effective information integration, an approach traditionally assumed to be universally beneficial. However, prior research has primarily taken an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wanlong Fang , Tianle Zhang , Alvin Chan

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

Converting different modalities into general text, serving as input prompts for large language models (LLMs), is a common method to align multimodal models when there is limited pairwise data. This text-centric approach leverages the unique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ting-Yu Yen , Yun-Da Tsai , Keng-Te Liao , Shou-De Lin

Generally, items with missing modalities are dropped in multimodal recommendation. However, with this work, we question this procedure, highlighting that it would further damage the pipeline of any multimodal recommender system. First, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Daniele Malitesta , Emanuele Rossi , Claudio Pomo , Tommaso Di Noia , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Multimodal learning leverages the integration of diverse data modalities to enhance performance in complex tasks. Yet, it frequently encounters incomplete or redundant modality data in real-world scenarios. This paper presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Richeng Zhou , Xuelin Zhang , Liyuan Liu

Transformer is a promising neural network learner, and has achieved great success in various machine learning tasks. Thanks to the recent prevalence of multimodal applications and big data, Transformer-based multimodal learning has become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Peng Xu , Xiatian Zhu , David A. Clifton

This paper is concerned with multi-modal data fusion (MMDF) under unexpected modality failures in nonlinear non-Gaussian dynamic processes. An efficient framework to tackle this problem is proposed. In particular, a notion termed modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Bin Liu

Developing effective multimodal data fusion strategies has become increasingly essential for improving the predictive power of statistical machine learning methods across a wide range of applications, from autonomous driving to medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ziyi Liang , Annie Qu , Babak Shahbaba

This paper studies the best practices for automatic machine learning (AutoML). While previous AutoML efforts have predominantly focused on unimodal data, the multimodal aspect remains under-explored. Our study delves into classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhiqiang Tang , Zihan Zhong , Tong He , Gerald Friedland

Evaluating the generalisation capabilities of multimodal models based solely on their performance on out-of-distribution data fails to capture their true robustness. This work introduces a comprehensive evaluation framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Amit Parekh , Nikolas Vitsakis , Alessandro Suglia , Ioannis Konstas

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

Existing multimodal tasks mostly target at the complete input modality setting, i.e., each modality is either complete or completely missing in both training and test sets. However, the randomly missing situations have still been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Wei Han , Hui Chen , Min-Yen Kan , Soujanya Poria

Training multimodal foundation models is challenging due to the limited availability of multimodal datasets. While many public datasets pair images with text, few combine images with audio or text with audio. Even rarer are datasets that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Manuel Tran , Yashin Dicente Cid , Amal Lahiani , Fabian J. Theis , Tingying Peng , Eldad Klaiman

Traditional multimodal learners find unified representations for tasks like visual question answering, but rely heavily on paired datasets. However, an overlooked yet potentially powerful question is: can one leverage auxiliary unpaired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Sharut Gupta , Shobhita Sundaram , Chenyu Wang , Stefanie Jegelka , Phillip Isola

Traditional multimodal methods often assume static modality quality, which limits their adaptability in dynamic real-world scenarios. Thus, dynamical multimodal methods are proposed to assess modality quality and adjust their contribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shicai Wei , Kaijie Zhang , Luyi Chen , Tao He , Guiduo Duan

Multimodal learning is defined as learning over multiple heterogeneous input modalities such as video, audio, and text. In this work, we are concerned with understanding how models behave as the type of modalities differ between training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Brandon McKinzie , Joseph Cheng , Vaishaal Shankar , Yinfei Yang , Jonathon Shlens , Alexander Toshev

Transformer models have emerged as potent solutions to a wide array of multidisciplinary challenges. The deployment of Transformer architectures is significantly hindered by their extensive computational and memory requirements,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhengxian Lu , Fangyu Wang , Zhiwei Xu , Fei Yang , Tao Li