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Different modalities hold considerable gaps in optimization trajectories, including speeds and paths, which lead to modality laziness and modality clash when jointly training multimodal models, resulting in insufficient and imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xiaoyu Ma , Hao Chen , Yongjian Deng

Distributed multi-party learning provides an effective approach for training a joint model with scattered data under legal and practical constraints. However, due to the quagmire of a skewed distribution of data labels across participants…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Maoguo Gong , Yuan Gao , Yue Wu , A. K. Qin

To overcome the imbalanced multimodal learning problem, where models prefer the training of specific modalities, existing methods propose to control the training of uni-modal encoders from different perspectives, taking the inter-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yake Wei , Siwei Li , Ruoxuan Feng , Di Hu

Multimodal learning has shown great potentials in numerous scenes and attracts increasing interest recently. However, it often encounters the problem of missing modality data and thus suffers severe performance degradation in practice. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shicai Wei , Yang Luo , Chunbo Luo

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

Model-agnostic meta-learners aim to acquire meta-learned parameters from similar tasks to adapt to novel tasks from the same distribution with few gradient updates. With the flexibility in the choice of models, those frameworks demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Risto Vuorio , Shao-Hua Sun , Hexiang Hu , Joseph J. Lim

Learning to reliably perceive and understand the scene is an integral enabler for robots to operate in the real-world. This problem is inherently challenging due to the multitude of object types as well as appearance changes caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Abhinav Valada , Rohit Mohan , Wolfram Burgard

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

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to predict sentiment from language, acoustic, and visual data in videos. However, imbalanced unimodal performance often leads to suboptimal fused representations. Existing approaches typically adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Dingkang Yang , Mingcheng Li , Xuecheng Wu , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Keliang Liu , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

The success of vision-language models is primarily attributed to effective alignment across modalities such as vision and language. However, modality gaps persist in existing alignment algorithms and appear necessary for human perception as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hanqi Yan , Xiangxiang Cui , Lu Yin , Jindong Gu , Paul Pu Liang , Yulan He , Yifei Wang

Multimodal learning systems often encounter challenges related to modality imbalance, where a dominant modality may overshadow others, thereby hindering the learning of weak modalities. Conventional approaches often force weak modalities to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Baoquan Gong , Xiyuan Gao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Bing Cao

Many recommender models have been proposed to investigate how to incorporate multimodal content information into traditional collaborative filtering framework effectively. The use of multimodal information is expected to provide more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jinghao Zhang , Guofan Liu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Multimodal learning is expected to boost model performance by integrating information from different modalities. However, its potential is not fully exploited because the widely-used joint training strategy, which has a uniform objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yake Wei , Di Hu , Henghui Du , Ji-Rong Wen

Multimodal foundation models have achieved impressive progress across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, existing approaches often adopt fixed or task-specific fusion strategies, neglecting the intrinsic variability of modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Liam Bennett , Mason Clark , Lucas Anderson , Hana Satou , Olivia Martinez

We study the problem of feature selection in general machine learning (ML) context, which is one of the most critical subjects in the field. Although, there exist many feature selection methods, however, these methods face challenges such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mehmet Y. Turali , Mehmet E. Lorasdagi , Ali T. Koc , Suleyman S. Kozat

Despite the recent success of Multimodal Foundation Models (FMs), their reliance on massive paired datasets limits their applicability in low-data and rare-scenario settings where aligned data is scarce and expensive. A key bottleneck is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Truong Pham , Anay Majee , Rishabh Iyer

Multimodal models often converge to a dominant-modality solution, in which a stronger, faster-converging modality overshadows weaker ones. This modality imbalance causes suboptimal performance. Existing methods attempt to balance different…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zechang Xiong , Da Li , Kexin Tang , Pengyuan Li , Wenkang Kong , Yulan Hu

In this work, we present a new, algorithm for multi-domain learning. Given a pretrained architecture and a set of visual domains received sequentially, the goal of multi-domain learning is to produce a single model performing a task in all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo , Samuel Rota Buló

The mechanism of connecting multimodal signals through self-attention operation is a key factor in the success of multimodal Transformer networks in remote sensing data fusion tasks. However, traditional approaches assume access to all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yuxing Chen , Maofan Zhao , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Multimodal learning helps to comprehensively understand the world, by integrating different senses. Accordingly, multiple input modalities are expected to boost model performance, but we actually find that they are not fully exploited even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xiaokang Peng , Yake Wei , Andong Deng , Dong Wang , Di Hu