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Deep imitation learning is promising for solving dexterous manipulation tasks because it does not require an environment model and pre-programmed robot behavior. However, its application to dual-arm manipulation tasks remains challenging.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Heecheol Kim , Yoshiyuki Ohmura , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

We propose a self-supervised shared encoder model that achieves strong results on several visual, language and multimodal benchmarks while being data, memory and run-time efficient. We make three key contributions. First, in contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Rakesh Chada , Zhaoheng Zheng , Pradeep Natarajan

Transformer-based models have delivered impressive results on many tasks, particularly vision and language tasks. In many model training situations, conventional configurations are typically adopted. For example, we often set the base model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Fuzhao Xue , Jianghai Chen , Aixin Sun , Xiaozhe Ren , Zangwei Zheng , Xiaoxin He , Yongming Chen , Xin Jiang , Yang You

Recent studies show that the attention heads in Transformer are not equal. We relate this phenomenon to the imbalance training of multi-head attention and the model dependence on specific heads. To tackle this problem, we propose a simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Zewei Sun , Shujian Huang , Xin-Yu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Multimodal affective computing aims to predict humans' sentiment, emotion, intention, and opinion using language, acoustic, and visual modalities. However, current models often learn spurious correlations that harm generalization under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sijie Mai , Shiqin Han

Continual learning is essential for adapting models to new tasks while retaining previously acquired knowledge. While existing approaches predominantly focus on uni-modal data, multi-modal learning offers substantial benefits by utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Evelyn Chee , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

We propose an efficient approach to train large diffusion models with masked transformers. While masked transformers have been extensively explored for representation learning, their application to generative learning is less explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Hongkai Zheng , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Anima Anandkumar

Image-text multimodal representation learning aligns data across modalities and enables important medical applications, e.g., image classification, visual grounding, and cross-modal retrieval. In this work, we establish a connection between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Peiqi Wang , William M. Wells , Seth Berkowitz , Steven Horng , Polina Golland

Visual recognition inside the vehicle cabin leads to safer driving and more intuitive human-vehicle interaction but such systems face substantial obstacles as they need to capture different granularities of driver behaviour while dealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Alina Roitberg , Kunyu Peng , Zdravko Marinov , Constantin Seibold , David Schneider , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Despite participants engaging in unimodal stimuli, such as watching images or silent videos, recent work has demonstrated that multi-modal Transformer models can predict visual brain activity impressively well, even with incongruent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-27 Subba Reddy Oota , Khushbu Pahwa , Mounika Marreddy , Maneesh Singh , Manish Gupta , Bapi S. Raju

In recent years, there have been numerous developments towards solving multimodal tasks, aiming to learn a stronger representation than through a single modality. Certain aspects of the data can be particularly useful in this case - for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-06 Cătălina Cangea , Petar Veličković , Pietro Liò

Multimodal Transformers serve as the backbone for state-of-the-art vision-language models, yet their quadratic attention complexity remains a critical barrier to scalability. In this work, we investigate the viability of Linear Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Armin Gerami , Seyedehanita Madani , Ramani Duraiswami

Effective multimodal fusion requires mechanisms that can capture complex cross-modal dependencies while remaining computationally scalable for real-world deployment. Existing audio-visual fusion approaches face a fundamental trade-off:…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mohamed Saleh , Zahra Ahmadi

We address the problem of referring image segmentation that aims to generate a mask for the object specified by a natural language expression. Many recent works utilize Transformer to extract features for the target object by aggregating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Chang Liu , Henghui Ding , Yulun Zhang , Xudong Jiang

Encoding models have been used to assess how the human brain represents concepts in language and vision. While language and vision rely on similar concept representations, current encoding models are typically trained and tested on brain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jerry Tang , Meng Du , Vy A. Vo , Vasudev Lal , Alexander G. Huth

Transformer-based architectures have become competitive across a variety of visual domains, most notably images and videos. While prior work studies these modalities in isolation, having a common architecture suggests that one can train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Rohit Girdhar , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Mannat Singh , Kalyan Vasudev Alwala , Armand Joulin , Ishan Misra

Advancements in deep learning are driven by training models with increasingly larger numbers of parameters, which in turn heightens the computational demands. To address this issue, Mixture-of-Depths (MoD) models have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Advait Gadhikar , Souptik Kumar Majumdar , Niclas Popp , Piyapat Saranrittichai , Martin Rapp , Lukas Schott

Unsupervised pre-training has shown great success in skeleton-based action understanding recently. Existing works typically train separate modality-specific models, then integrate the multi-modal information for action understanding by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shengkai Sun , Daizong Liu , Jianfeng Dong , Xiaoye Qu , Junyu Gao , Xun Yang , Xun Wang , Meng Wang

Self-attention in Transformers comes with a high computational cost because of their quadratic computational complexity, but their effectiveness in addressing problems in language and vision has sparked extensive research aimed at enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tobias Christian Nauen , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has reached a level of accuracy in recent years, that even outperforms humans in transcribing speech to text. Nevertheless, all current ASR approaches show a certain weakness against ambient noise. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Christopher Simic , Tobias Bocklet