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The inherent challenge of multimodal fusion is to precisely capture the cross-modal correlation and flexibly conduct cross-modal interaction. To fully release the value of each modality and mitigate the influence of low-quality multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Qingyang Zhang , Haitao Wu , Changqing Zhang , Qinghua Hu , Huazhu Fu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Xi Peng

Ophthalmologists typically require multimodal data sources to improve diagnostic accuracy in clinical decisions. However, due to medical device shortages, low-quality data and data privacy concerns, missing data modalities are common in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Chengzhi Liu , Zile Huang , Zhe Chen , Feilong Tang , Yu Tian , Zhongxing Xu , Zihong Luo , Yalin Zheng , Yanda Meng

We propose a novel information bottleneck (IB) method named Drop-Bottleneck, which discretely drops features that are irrelevant to the target variable. Drop-Bottleneck not only enjoys a simple and tractable compression objective but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Jaekyeom Kim , Minjung Kim , Dongyeon Woo , Gunhee Kim

In real-world recommendation scenarios, users typically engage with platforms through multiple types of behavioral interactions. Multi-behavior recommendation algorithms aim to leverage various auxiliary user behaviors to enhance prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Hengyu Zhang , Chunxu Shen , Xiangguo Sun , Jie Tan , Yanchao Tan , Yu Rong , Hong Cheng , Lingling Yi

Purpose High dimensional, multimodal data can nowadays be analyzed by huge deep neural networks with little effort. Several fusion methods for bringing together different modalities have been developed. Given the prevalence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Christian Gapp , Elias Tappeiner , Martin Welk , Karl Fritscher , Elke Ruth Gizewski , Rainer Schubert

Predicting multiple real-world tasks in a single model often requires a particularly diverse feature space. Multimodal (MM) models aim to extract the synergistic predictive potential of multiple data types to create a shared feature space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Vinitra Swamy , Malika Satayeva , Jibril Frej , Thierry Bossy , Thijs Vogels , Martin Jaggi , Tanja Käser , Mary-Anne Hartley

Multimodal pathological images are usually in clinical diagnosis, but computer vision-based multimodal image-assisted diagnosis faces challenges with modality fusion, especially in the absence of expert-annotated data. To achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Qinghua Lin , Guang-Hai Liu , Zuoyong Li , Yang Li , Yuting Jiang , Xiang Wu

Multimodal sensing systems are increasingly prevalent in various real-world applications. Most existing multimodal learning approaches heavily rely on training with a large amount of synchronized, complete multimodal data. However, such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xiaomin Ouyang , Jason Wu , Tomoyoshi Kimura , Yihan Lin , Gunjan Verma , Tarek Abdelzaher , Mani Srivastava

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

Multimodal learning integrates information from different modalities to enhance model performance, yet it often suffers from modality imbalance, where dominant modalities overshadow weaker ones during joint optimization. This paper reveals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xiaoyu Ma , Hao Chen

Multimodal learning has gained attention for its capacity to integrate information from different modalities. However, it is often hindered by the multimodal imbalance problem, where certain modality dominates while others remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Shaoxuan Xu , Menglu Cui , Chengxiang Huang , Hongfa Wang , Di Hu

Multimodal clinical records contain structured measurements and clinical notes recorded over time, offering rich temporal information about the evolution of patient health. Yet these observations are sparse, and whether they are recorded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zihan Liang , Ziwen Pan , Ruoxuan Xiong

Multimodal regression is a fundamental task, which integrates the information from different sources to improve the performance of follow-up applications. However, existing methods mainly focus on improving the performance and often ignore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Huan Ma , Zongbo Han , Changqing Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Qinghua Hu

Incomplete multi-modal medical image segmentation faces critical challenges from modality imbalance, including imbalanced modality missing rates and heterogeneous modality contributions. Due to their reliance on idealized assumptions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Libin Lan , Hongxing Li , Zunhui Xia , Yudong Zhang

Recent evidence suggests that modeling higher-order interactions (HOIs) in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data can enhance the diagnostic accuracy of machine learning systems. However, effectively extracting and utilizing HOIs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Kunyu Zhang , Qiang Li , Shujian Yu

Healthcare applications are inherently multimodal, benefiting greatly from the integration of diverse data sources. However, the modalities available in clinical settings can vary across different locations and patients. A key area that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mohammed Amer , Mohamed A. Suliman , Tu Bui , Nuria Garcia , Serban Georgescu

We aim to develop a fundamental understanding of modality collapse, a recently observed empirical phenomenon wherein models trained for multimodal fusion tend to rely only on a subset of the modalities, ignoring the rest. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Abhra Chaudhuri , Anjan Dutta , Tu Bui , Serban Georgescu

Adversarial examples are one of the most severe threats to deep learning models. Numerous works have been proposed to study and defend adversarial examples. However, these works lack analysis of adversarial information or perturbation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Guanlin Li , Naishan Zheng , Man Zhou , Jie Zhang , Tianwei Zhang

Although multimodal fusion has made significant progress, its advancement is severely hindered by the lack of adequate evaluation benchmarks. Current fusion methods are typically evaluated on a small selection of public datasets, a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Leyan Xue , Changqing Zhang , Kecheng Xue , Xiaohong Liu , Guangyu Wang , Zongbo Han

Medical multimodal representation learning aims to integrate heterogeneous clinical data into unified patient representations to support predictive modeling, which remains an essential yet challenging task in the medical data mining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiaoguang Zhu , Lianlong Sun , Yang Liu , Pengyi Jiang , Uma Srivatsa , Nipavan Chiamvimonvat , Vladimir Filkov