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Gradient-based meta-learners such as MAML are able to learn a meta-prior from similar tasks to adapt to novel tasks from the same distribution with few gradient updates. One important limitation of such frameworks is that they seek a common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Risto Vuorio , Shao-Hua Sun , Hexiang Hu , Joseph J. Lim

The aim of multimodal neural networks is to combine diverse data sources, referred to as modalities, to achieve enhanced performance compared to relying on a single modality. However, training of multimodal networks is typically hindered by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares , Farah E. Shamout

Imitation learning has become a cornerstone for solving complex robotic manipulation tasks. In particular, multimodality, which enables robots to capture diverse yet valid behavioral patterns, has driven the rapid emergence of generative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jindou Jia , Tuo An , Yuxuan Hu , Gen Li , Jingliang Li , Bohan Hou , Xiangyu Chen , Jiaqi Bai , Bofan Lyu , Jianfei Yang

Consider end-to-end training of a multi-modal vs. a single-modal network on a task with multiple input modalities: the multi-modal network receives more information, so it should match or outperform its single-modal counterpart. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Weiyao Wang , Du Tran , Matt Feiszli

In multimedia applications, the text and image components in a web document form a pairwise constraint that potentially indicates the same semantic concept. This paper studies cross-modal learning via the pairwise constraint, and aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ran He , Man Zhang , Liang Wang , Ye Ji , Qiyue Yin

Multi-modal learning is a fast growing area in artificial intelligence. It tries to help machines understand complex things by combining information from different sources, like images, text, and audio. By using the strengths of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Qihang Jin , Enze Ge , Yuhang Xie , Hongying Luo , Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Chia Xin Liang , Jibin Guan , Joe Yeong , Xinyuan Song , Junfeng Hao

While the field of multi-modal learning keeps growing fast, the deficiency of the standard joint training paradigm has become clear through recent studies. They attribute the sub-optimal performance of the jointly trained model to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Hong Li , Xingyu Li , Pengbo Hu , Yinuo Lei , Chunxiao Li , Yi Zhou

Multimodal learning faces two major challenges: modality imbalance and data noise, which significantly affect the robustness and generalization ability of models. Existing methods achieve modality balance by suppressing dominant modalities,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zijing Xu , Yunfeng Kou , Kunming Wu , Hong Liu

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

Research on multi-modal learning dominantly aligns the modalities in a unified space at training, and only a single one is taken for prediction at inference. However, for a real machine, e.g., a robot, sensors could be added or removed at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Xu Zheng , Dahun Kim , Lin Wang

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) is an important way of observing mental activities with the help of data captured from multiple modalities. However, due to the recording or transmission error, some modalities may include incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Haozhe Chi , Minghua Yang , Junhao Zhu , Guanhong Wang , Gaoang Wang

Combining complementary information from multiple modalities is intuitively appealing for improving the performance of learning-based approaches. However, it is challenging to fully leverage different modalities due to practical challenges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-31 Kuan Liu , Yanen Li , Ning Xu , Prem Natarajan

In many personalized recommendation scenarios, the generalization ability of a target task can be improved via learning with additional auxiliary tasks alongside this target task on a multi-task network. However, this method often suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yun He , Xue Feng , Cheng Cheng , Geng Ji , Yunsong Guo , James Caverlee

We propose a unified deep meta-learning framework for accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that jointly addresses multi-coil reconstruction and cross-modality synthesis. Motivated by the limitations of conventional methods in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Merham Fouladvand , Peuroly Batra

Learning from multiple modalities, such as audio and video, offers opportunities for leveraging complementary information, enhancing robustness, and improving contextual understanding and performance. However, combining such modalities…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Konstantinos Kontras , Christos Chatzichristos , Matthew Blaschko , Maarten De Vos

Adapting pre-trained models with broad capabilities has become standard practice for learning a wide range of downstream tasks. The typical approach of fine-tuning different models for each task is performant, but incurs a substantial…

Multi-Task Learning is a learning paradigm that uses correlated tasks to improve performance generalization. A common way to learn multiple tasks is through the hard parameter sharing approach, in which a single architecture is used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Angelica Tiemi Mizuno Nakamura , Denis Fernando Wolf , Valdir Grassi

This work focuses on learning useful and robust deep world models using multiple, possibly unreliable, sensors. We find that current methods do not sufficiently encourage a shared representation between modalities; this can cause poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Kaiqi Chen , Yong Lee , Harold Soh

We learn about the world from a diverse range of sensory information. Automated systems lack this ability as investigation has centred on processing information presented in a single form. Adapting architectures to learn from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jason Armitage , Shramana Thakur , Rishi Tripathi , Jens Lehmann , Maria Maleshkova

Multimodal information retrieval (MIR) faces inherent challenges due to the heterogeneity of data sources and the complexity of cross-modal alignment. While previous studies have identified modal gaps in feature spaces, a systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Fanheng Kong , Jingyuan Zhang , Yahui Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Yu Tian , Victoria W. , Fuzheng Zhang , Guorui Zhou