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Recent deep learning models can efficiently combine inputs from different modalities (e.g., images and text) and learn to align their latent representations, or to translate signals from one domain to another (as in image captioning, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Benjamin Devillers , Léopold Maytié , Rufin VanRullen

This book is the result of a seminar in which we reviewed multimodal approaches and attempted to create a solid overview of the field, starting with the current state-of-the-art approaches in the two subfields of Deep Learning individually.…

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

Multi-modal contrastive learning with language supervision has presented a paradigm shift in modern machine learning. By pre-training on a web-scale dataset, multi-modal contrastive learning can learn high-quality representations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Wei Huang , Andi Han , Yongqiang Chen , Yuan Cao , Zhiqiang Xu , Taiji Suzuki

Multimodal learning enables neural networks to integrate information from heterogeneous sources, but active learning in this setting faces distinct challenges. These include missing modalities, differences in modality difficulty, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Dustin Eisenhardt , Yunhee Jeong , Florian Buettner

We abstract the features (i.e. learned representations) of multi-modal data into 1) uni-modal features, which can be learned from uni-modal training, and 2) paired features, which can only be learned from cross-modal interactions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Chenzhuang Du , Jiaye Teng , Tingle Li , Yichen Liu , Tianyuan Yuan , Yue Wang , Yang Yuan , Hang Zhao

In recent years, multi-modal machine translation has attracted significant interest in both academia and industry due to its superior performance. It takes both textual and visual modalities as inputs, leveraging visual context to tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Huangjun Shen , Liangying Shao , Wenbo Li , Zhibin Lan , Zhanyu Liu , Jinsong Su

Multimodal video understanding plays a crucial role in tasks such as action recognition and emotion classification by combining information from different modalities. However, multimodal models are prone to overfitting strong modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiaoyu Ma , Ding Ding , Hao Chen

Language models have recently advanced into the realm of reasoning, yet it is through multimodal reasoning that we can fully unlock the potential to achieve more comprehensive, human-like cognitive capabilities. This survey provides a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhiyu Lin , Yifei Gao , Xian Zhao , Yunfan Yang , Jitao Sang

Multimodal VAEs seek to model the joint distribution over heterogeneous data (e.g.\ vision, language), whilst also capturing a shared representation across such modalities. Prior work has typically combined information from the modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Tom Joy , Yuge Shi , Philip H. S. Torr , Tom Rainforth , Sebastian M. Schmon , N. Siddharth

Multimodal learning has become a prominent research area, with the potential of substantial performance gains by combining information across modalities. At the same time, model development has trended toward increasingly complex deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tillmann Rheude , Roland Eils , Benjamin Wild

Machine learning methods can be a valuable aid in the scientific process, but they need to face challenging settings where data come from inhomogeneous experimental conditions. Recent meta-learning methods have made significant progress in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Matthieu Blanke , Marc Lelarge

Evaluation of multimodal reasoning models is typically reduced to a single accuracy score, implicitly treating reasoning as a unitary capability. We introduce MathLens, a benchmark of textbook-style geometry problems that exposes this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiwan Chung , Neel Joshi , Pratyusha Sharma , Youngjae Yu , Vibhav Vineet

Remote sensing provides satellite data in diverse types and formats. The usage of multimodal learning networks exploits this diversity to improve model performance, except that the complexity of such networks comes at the expense of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hiba Najjar , Bushra Alshbib , Andreas Dengel

Cross-platform verification, a critical undertaking in the realm of early-stage quantum computing, endeavors to characterize the similarity of two imperfect quantum devices executing identical algorithms, utilizing minimal measurements.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Yang Qian , Yuxuan Du , Zhenliang He , Min-hsiu Hsieh , Dacheng Tao

While humans excel at continual learning (CL), deep neural networks (DNNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. A salient feature of the brain that allows effective CL is that it utilizes multiple modalities for learning and inference, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Fahad Sarfraz , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

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

Deep learning methods have revolutionized speech recognition, image recognition, and natural language processing since 2010. Each of these tasks involves a single modality in their input signals. However, many applications in the artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chao Zhang , Zichao Yang , Xiaodong He , Li Deng

We propose to build omni-modal intelligence, which is capable of understanding any modality and learning universal representations. In specific, we propose a scalable pretraining paradigm, named Multimodal Context (MiCo), which can scale up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Yiyuan Zhang , Handong Li , Jing Liu , Xiangyu Yue

Multi-modal machine learning (ML) models can process data in multiple modalities (e.g., video, audio, text) and are useful for video content analysis in a variety of problems (e.g., object detection, scene understanding, activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Palash Goyal , Saurabh Sahu , Shalini Ghosh , Chul Lee