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Multimodal sensory data resembles the form of information perceived by humans for learning, and are easy to obtain in large quantities. Compared to unimodal data, synchronization of concepts between modalities in such data provides…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-30 Wei-Ning Hsu , James Glass

A number of variational autoencoders (VAEs) have recently emerged with the aim of modeling multimodal data, e.g., to jointly model images and their corresponding captions. Still, multimodal VAEs tend to focus solely on a subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Adrián Javaloy , Maryam Meghdadi , Isabel Valera

Purpose: Handling heterogeneous and mixed data types has become increasingly critical with the exponential growth in real-world databases. While deep generative models attempt to merge diverse data views into a common latent space, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Alejandro Guerrero-López , Carlos Sevilla-Salcedo , Vanessa Gómez-Verdejo , Pablo M. Olmos

Human perception is inherently multimodal. We integrate, for instance, visual, proprioceptive and tactile information into one experience. Hence, multimodal learning is of importance for building robotic systems that aim at robustly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Carlotta Langer , Yasmin Kim Georgie , Ilja Porohovoj , Verena Vanessa Hafner , Nihat Ay

As one of the most popular generative models, Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approximates the posterior of latent variables based on amortized variational inference. However, when the decoder network is sufficiently expressive, VAE may lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Dazhong Shen , Chuan Qin , Chao Wang , Hengshu Zhu , Enhong Chen , Hui Xiong

This paper presents a novel generative framework for learning shared latent representations across multimodal data. Many advanced multimodal methods focus on capturing all combinations of modality-specific details across inputs, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jiali Cui , Yan-Ying Chen , Yanxia Zhang , Matthew Klenk

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a well-studied, deep, latent-variable model (DLVM) that efficiently optimizes the variational lower bound of the log marginal data likelihood and has a strong theoretical foundation. However, the VAE's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Surojit Saha , Sarang Joshi , Ross Whitaker

Multiple signal modalities, such as vision and sounds, are naturally present in real-world phenomena. Recently, there has been growing interest in learning generative models, in particular variational autoencoder (VAE), to for multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Peijie Qiu , Wenhui Zhu , Sayantan Kumar , Xiwen Chen , Xiaotong Sun , Jin Yang , Abolfazl Razi , Yalin Wang , Aristeidis Sotiras

Multimodal learning for generative models often refers to the learning of abstract concepts from the commonality of information in multiple modalities, such as vision and language. While it has proven effective for learning generalisable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuge Shi , Brooks Paige , Philip H. S. Torr , N. Siddharth

As a crucial extension of entity alignment (EA), multi-modal entity alignment (MMEA) aims to identify identical entities across disparate knowledge graphs (KGs) by exploiting associated visual information. However, existing MMEA approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Zhuo Chen , Lingbing Guo , Yin Fang , Yichi Zhang , Jiaoyan Chen , Jeff Z. Pan , Yangning Li , Huajun Chen , Wen Zhang

Recently, variational auto-encoder (VAE) based approaches have made impressive progress on improving the diversity of generated responses. However, these methods usually suffer the cost of decreased relevance accompanied by diversity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Zeyang Lei , Zekang Li , Jinchao Zhang , Fandong Meng , Yang Feng , Yujiu Yang , Cheng Niu , Jie Zhou

Multimodal variational autoencoders (VAEs) have shown promise as efficient generative models for weakly-supervised data. Yet, despite their advantage of weak supervision, they exhibit a gap in generative quality compared to unimodal VAEs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Imant Daunhawer , Thomas M. Sutter , Kieran Chin-Cheong , Emanuele Palumbo , Julia E. Vogt

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) presents a naturally compatible and scalable framework for multimodal learning, demonstrating strong adaptability across diverse modalities and tasks. Despite its growing success, a comprehensive and systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Liangwei Nathan Zheng , Wei Emma Zhang , Olaf Maennel , Lin Yue , Weitong Chen

Multimodal variational autoencoders have demonstrated their ability to learn the relationships between different modalities by mapping them into a latent representation. Their design and capacity to perform any-to-any conditional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Daniel Wesego , Pedram Rooshenas

We propose a new method for unsupervised generative continual learning through realignment of Variational Autoencoder's latent space. Deep generative models suffer from catastrophic forgetting in the same way as other neural structures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Kamil Deja , Paweł Wawrzyński , Wojciech Masarczyk , Daniel Marczak , Tomasz Trzciński

Variational Autoencoders for multimodal data hold promise for many tasks in data analysis, such as representation learning, conditional generation, and imputation. Current architectures either share the encoder output, decoder input, or…

Multimodal Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have been the subject of intense research in the past years as they can integrate multiple modalities into a joint representation and can thus serve as a promising tool for both data classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Gabriela Sejnova , Michal Vavrecka , Karla Stepanova , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Multimodal Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) represent a promising group of generative models that facilitate the construction of a tractable posterior within the latent space given multiple modalities. Previous studies have shown that as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Daniel Wesego , Pedram Rooshenas

Learning interpretable and disentangled representations of data is a key topic in machine learning research. Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a scalable method for learning directed latent variable models of complex data. It employs a clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Andriy Serdega , Dae-Shik Kim

Multimodal data are prevalent across various domains, and learning robust representations of such data is paramount to enhancing generation quality and downstream task performance. To handle heterogeneity and interconnections among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yijie Zhang , Yiyang Shen , Weiran Wang