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Multi-modal entity alignment aims to identify equivalent entities between two multi-modal Knowledge graphs by integrating multi-modal data, such as images and text, to enrich the semantic representations of entities. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhifei Li , Ziyue Qin , Xiangyu Luo , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Miao Zhang , Zhifang Huang , Kui Xiao , Bing Yang

Entity Alignment (EA) aims to detect descriptions of the same real-world entities among different Knowledge Graphs (KG). Several embedding methods have been proposed to rank potentially matching entities of two KGs according to their…

Leveraging high-quality joint representations from multimodal data can greatly enhance model performance in various machine-learning based applications. Recent multimodal learning methods, based on the multimodal information bottleneck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qilong Wu , Yiyang Shao , Jun Wang , Xiaobo Sun

Benefiting from large-scale pretrained vision language models (VLMs), the performance of visual question answering (VQA) has approached human oracles. However, finetuning such models on limited data often suffers from overfitting and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jingjing Jiang , Ziyi Liu , Nanning Zheng

Entity alignment is to find identical entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same real-world object. Embedding-based entity alignment techniques have been drawing a lot of attention recently because they can help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiaobin Tian , Zequn Sun , Guangyao Li , Wei Hu

Cross-lingual entity alignment, which aims to precisely connect the same entities in different monolingual knowledge bases (KBs) together, often suffers challenges from feature inconsistency to sequence context unawareness. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Gong Zhang , Yang Zhou , Sixing Wu , Zeru Zhang , Dejing Dou

Entity alignment, which is a prerequisite for creating a more comprehensive Knowledge Graph (KG), involves pinpointing equivalent entities across disparate KGs. Contemporary methods for entity alignment have predominantly utilized knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Linyao Yang , Hongyang Chen , Xiao Wang , Jing Yang , Fei-Yue Wang , Han Liu

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

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

Entity alignment (EA) which links equivalent entities across different knowledge graphs (KGs) plays a crucial role in knowledge fusion. In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied in many embedding-based EA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Feng Xie , Xiang Zeng , Bin Zhou , Yusong Tan

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) aims to link ambiguous mentions within multimodal contexts to associated entities in a multimodal knowledge base. Existing approaches to MEL introduce multimodal interaction and fusion mechanisms to bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhiwei Hu , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Zhiliang Xiang , Ru Li , Jeff Z. Pan

Contrastive losses have been extensively used as a tool for multimodal representation learning. However, it has been empirically observed that their use is not effective to learn an aligned representation space. In this paper, we argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Antonio Almudévar , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Sameer Khurana , Ricard Marxer , Alfonso Ortega

Contrastive learning is effective for aligning paired views or modalities, but alignment beyond two modalities remains non-trivial and comparatively underexplored. Pairwise CLIP-style losses decompose multi-modal alignment into independent…

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Multi-modal knowledge graph completion (MMKGC) aims to discover unobserved knowledge from given knowledge graphs, collaboratively leveraging structural information from the triples and multi-modal information of the entities to overcome the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yichi Zhang , Zhuo Chen , Lingbing Guo , Yajing Xu , Binbin Hu , Ziqi Liu , Wen Zhang , Huajun Chen

Effectively leveraging multimodal data such as various images, laboratory tests and clinical information is gaining traction in a variety of AI-based medical diagnosis and prognosis tasks. Most existing multi-modal techniques only focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yingying Fang , Shuang Wu , Sheng Zhang , Chaoyan Huang , Tieyong Zeng , Xiaodan Xing , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Learning high-quality multi-modal entity representations is an important goal of multi-modal knowledge graph (MMKG) representation learning, which can enhance reasoning tasks within the MMKGs, such as MMKG completion (MMKGC). The main…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yichi Zhang , Zhuo Chen , Lingbing Guo , Yajing Xu , Binbin Hu , Ziqi Liu , Wen Zhang , Huajun Chen

Link prediction aims to identify potential missing triples in knowledge graphs. To get better results, some recent studies have introduced multimodal information to link prediction. However, these methods utilize multimodal information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Xinhang Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Jiaxing Xu , Yong Zhang , Chunxiao Xing

A number of variational autoencoders (VAEs) have recently emerged with the aim of modeling multimodal data, e.g., to jointly model images and their corresponding captions. Still, multimodal VAEs tend to focus solely on a subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Adrián Javaloy , Maryam Meghdadi , Isabel Valera

Recommender systems traditionally represent items using unique identifiers (ItemIDs), but this approach struggles with large, dynamic item corpora and sparse long-tail data, limiting scalability and generalization. Semantic IDs, derived…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Xu , Moyu Zhang , Chenxuan Li , Zhihao Liao , Haibo Xing , Hao Deng , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Multiple modalities often co-occur when describing natural phenomena. Learning a joint representation of these modalities should yield deeper and more useful representations. Previous generative approaches to multi-modal input either do not…

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