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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…

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Knowledge distillation as an efficient knowledge transfer technique, has achieved remarkable success in unimodal scenarios. However, in cross-modal settings, conventional distillation methods encounter significant challenges due to data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Hui Li , Pengfei Yang , Juanyang Chen , Le Dong , Yanxin Chen , Quan Wang

Multi-modal learning is typically performed with network architectures containing modality-specific layers and shared layers, utilizing co-registered images of different modalities. We propose a novel learning scheme for unpaired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Qi Dou , Quande Liu , Pheng Ann Heng , Ben Glocker

Multimodal Deep Learning has garnered much interest, and transformers have triggered novel approaches, thanks to the cross-attention mechanism. Here we propose an approach to deal with two key existing challenges: the high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Dhruv Agarwal , Tanay Agrawal , Laura M. Ferrari , François Bremond

This paper explores the tasks of leveraging auxiliary modalities which are only available at training to enhance multimodal representation learning through cross-modal Knowledge Distillation (KD). The widely adopted mutual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Mengxi Chen , Linyu Xing , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang

The rapid increase in multimodal data availability has sparked significant interest in cross-modal knowledge distillation (KD) techniques, where richer "teacher" modalities transfer information to weaker "student" modalities during model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rongrong Xie , Yizhou Xu , Guido Sanguinetti

Knowledge distillation is a simple but powerful way to transfer knowledge between a teacher model to a student model. Existing work suffers from at least one of the following key limitations in terms of direction and scope of transfer which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Michael Livanos , Ian Davidson , Stephen Wong

In multi-modal learning, some modalities are more influential than others, and their absence can have a significant impact on classification/segmentation accuracy. Addressing this challenge, we propose a novel approach called Meta-learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Hu Wang , Salma Hassan , Yuyuan Liu , Congbo Ma , Yuanhong Chen , Qing Li , Jiahui Geng , Bingjie Wang , Yu Tian , Yutong Xie , Jodie Avery , Louise Hull , Ian Reid , Mohammad Yaqub , Gustavo Carneiro

In recent years, pre-trained multimodal large models have attracted widespread attention due to their outstanding performance in various multimodal applications. Nonetheless, the extensive computational resources and vast datasets required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhengyang Liang , Meiyu Liang , Wei Huang , Yawen Li , Zhe Xue

Multi-modal recommendation systems, which integrate diverse types of information, have gained widespread attention in recent years. However, compared to traditional collaborative filtering-based multi-modal recommendation systems, research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Wei Ji , Xiangyan Liu , An Zhang , Yinwei Wei , Yongxin Ni , Xiang 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 this work, we address the problem of learning an ensemble of specialist networks using multimodal data, while considering the realistic and challenging scenario of possible missing modalities at test time. Our goal is to leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Nuno C. Garcia , Sarah Adel Bargal , Vitaly Ablavsky , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino , Stan Sclaroff

Having access to multi-modal cues (e.g. vision and audio) empowers some cognitive tasks to be done faster compared to learning from a single modality. In this work, we propose to transfer knowledge across heterogeneous modalities, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Yanbei Chen , Yongqin Xian , A. Sophia Koepke , Ying Shan , Zeynep Akata

Multimodal learning (MML) is significantly constrained by modality imbalance, leading to suboptimal performance in practice. While existing approaches primarily focus on balancing the learning of different modalities to address this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 QingYuan Jiang , Longfei Huang , Yang Yang

Existing knowledge distillation methods typically work by imparting the knowledge of output logits or intermediate feature maps from the teacher network to the student network, which is very successful in multi-class single-label learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Penghui Yang , Ming-Kun Xie , Chen-Chen Zong , Lei Feng , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Sheng-Jun Huang

Cross-modality distillation arises as an important topic for data modalities containing limited knowledge such as depth maps and high-quality sketches. Such techniques are of great importance, especially for memory and privacy-restricted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hangyu Lin , Chen Liu , Chengming Xu , Zhengqi Gao , Yanwei Fu , Yuan Yao

Improving the performance of semantic segmentation models using multispectral information is crucial, especially for environments with low-light and adverse conditions. Multi-modal fusion techniques pursue either the learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Aniruddh Sikdar , Jayant Teotia , Suresh Sundaram

Training a small student network with the guidance of a larger teacher network is an effective way to promote the performance of the student. Despite the different types, the guided knowledge used to distill is always kept unchanged for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiangfan Han , Mengya Gao , Yujie Wang , Quanquan Li , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang

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

Knowledge distillation aims to compress a powerful yet cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model without much sacrifice of performance. For this purpose, various approaches have been proposed over the past few years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Hailin Zhang , Can Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen