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We consider the "partial information decomposition" (PID) problem, which aims to decompose the information that a set of source random variables provide about a target random variable into separate redundant, synergistic, union, and unique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Artemy Kolchinsky

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in applications of multimodal signal processing and analysis, largely driven by the increased availability of multimodal datasets and the rapid progress in multimodal learning systems.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Hadi Hadizadeh , S. Faegheh Yeganli , Bahador Rashidi , Ivan V. Bajić

Interactions between modalities -- redundancy, uniqueness, and synergy -- collectively determine the composition of multimodal information. Understanding these interactions is crucial for analyzing information dynamics in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zequn Yang , Hongfa Wang , Di Hu

Partial Information Decomposition (PID) has become one of the most prominent information-theoretic frameworks for describing the structure and quality of information in complex systems. Despite its widespread utility, there exists no unique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Alberto Liardi , Keenan J. A. Down , George Blackburne , Matteo Neri , Pedro A. M. Mediano

Text-to-image diffusion models have made significant progress in generating naturalistic images from textual inputs, and demonstrate the capacity to learn and represent complex visual-semantic relationships. While these diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Rushikesh Zawar , Shaurya Dewan , Prakanshul Saxena , Yingshan Chang , Andrew Luo , Yonatan Bisk

Pedestrian behavior prediction is one of the major challenges for intelligent driving systems. Pedestrians often exhibit complex behaviors influenced by various contextual elements. To address this problem, we propose BiPed, a multitask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Amir Rasouli , Mohsen Rohani , Jun Luo

Social interactions dominate our perceptions of the world and shape our daily behavior by attaching social meaning to acts as simple and spontaneous as gestures, facial expressions, voice, and speech. People mimic and otherwise respond to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xiang Zhang , Xiaotian Li , Taoyue Wang , Nan Bi , Xin Zhou , Cody Zhou , Zoie Wang , Andrew Yang , Yuming Su , Jeff Cohn , Qiang Ji , Lijun Yin

Learning effective joint representations has been a central task in multi-modal sentiment analysis. Previous works addressing this task focus on exploring sophisticated fusion techniques to enhance performance. However, the inherent…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Weichen Dai , Xingyu Li , Zeyu Wang , Pengbo Hu , Ji Qi , Jianlin Peng , Yi Zhou

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) achieve impressive performance, yet their internal decision-making processes remain opaque, making it difficult to determine if the success stems from true multimodal fusion or from reliance on unimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Lixin Xiu , Xufang Luo , Hideki Nakayama

To characterize the complex higher-order interactions among variables within a system, this study introduces a novel framework, termed System Information Decomposition (SID), aimed at decomposing the information entropy of variables into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Aobo Lyu , Bing Yuan , Ou Deng , Mingzhe Yang , Jiang Zhang

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

With fast advancements in technologies, the collection of multiple types of measurements on a common set of subjects is becoming routine in science. Some notable examples include multimodal neuroimaging studies for the simultaneous…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-30 Yi Zhao , Lexin Li , Brian S. Caffo

As humans, we experience the world with all our senses or modalities (sound, sight, touch, smell, and taste). We use these modalities, particularly sight and touch, to convey and interpret specific meanings. Multimodal expressions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Anirudh Sundar , Larry Heck

Various data modalities are common in real-world applications (e.g., electronic health records, medical images and clinical notes in healthcare). It is essential to develop multimodal learning methods to aggregate various information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Feng Wu , Tsai Hor Chan , Fuying Wang , Guosheng Yin , Lequan Yu

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) is a fundamental complex research problem due to the heterogeneity gap between different modalities and the ambiguity of human emotional expression. Although there have been many successful attempts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jiahao Zheng , Sen Zhang , Xiaoping Wang , Zhigang Zeng

The partial information decomposition (PID) framework is concerned with decomposing the information that a set of (two or more) random variables (the sources) has about another variable (the target) into three types of information: unique,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 André F. C. Gomes , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Describing statistical dependencies is foundational to empirical scientific research. For uncovering intricate and possibly non-linear dependencies between a single target variable and several source variables within a system, a principled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-28 David A. Ehrlich , Kyle Schick-Poland , Abdullah Makkeh , Felix Lanfermann , Patricia Wollstadt , Michael Wibral

This research presents a novel multimodal data fusion methodology for pain behavior recognition, integrating statistical correlation analysis with human-centered insights. Our approach introduces two key innovations: 1) integrating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xingrui Gu , Zhixuan Wang , Irisa Jin , Zekun Wu

While recommender systems with multi-modal item representations (image, audio, and text), have been widely explored, learning recommendations from multi-modal user interactions (e.g., clicks and speech) remains an open problem. We study the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Simone Borg Bruun , Krisztian Balog , Maria Maistro

As human-robot collaboration is becoming more widespread, there is a need for a more natural way of communicating with the robot. This includes combining data from several modalities together with the context of the situation and background…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Petr Vanc , Radoslav Skoviera , Karla Stepanova