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As medical diagnoses increasingly leverage multimodal data, machine learning models are expected to effectively fuse heterogeneous information while remaining robust to missing modalities. In this work, we propose a novel multimodal…

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Multimodal learning has significantly enhanced machine learning performance but still faces numerous challenges and limitations. Imbalanced multimodal learning is one of the problems extensively studied in recent works and is typically…

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Multimodal models often experience a significant performance drop when one or more modalities are missing during inference. To address this challenge, we propose a simple yet effective approach that enhances robustness to missing modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Md Kaykobad Reza , Ameya Patil , Mashhour Solh , M. Salman Asif

Multimodal learning leverages complementary information derived from different modalities, thereby enhancing performance in medical image segmentation. However, prevailing multimodal learning methods heavily rely on extensive well-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xiaogen Zhou , Yiyou Sun , Min Deng , Winnie Chiu Wing Chu , Qi Dou

This paper proposes an approach for improving performance of unimodal models with multimodal training. Our approach involves a multi-branch architecture that incorporates unimodal models with a multimodal transformer-based branch. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Kateryna Chumachenko , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Multimodal Misinformation Recognition has become an urgent task with the emergence of huge multimodal fake content on social media platforms. Previous studies mainly focus on complex feature extraction and fusion to learn discriminative…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hengyang Zhou , Yiwei Wei , Jian Yang , Zhenyu Zhang

Multimodal learning has developed very fast in recent years. However, during the multimodal training process, the model tends to rely on only one modality based on which it could learn faster, thus leading to inadequate use of other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zirun Guo , Tao Jin , Jingyuan Chen , Zhou Zhao

The missing modality problem poses a fundamental challenge in multimodal sentiment analysis, significantly degrading model accuracy and generalization in real world scenarios. Existing approaches primarily improve robustness through prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Rongfei Chen , Tingting Zhang , Xiaoyu Shen , Wei Zhang

In real-world scenarios, multimodal federated learning often faces the practical challenge of intricate modality missing, which poses constraints on building federated frameworks and significantly degrades model inference accuracy. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Guangyin Bao , Qi Zhang , Duoqian Miao , Zixuan Gong , Liang Hu , Ke Liu , Yang Liu , Chongyang Shi

Multi-modal learning aims to enhance performance by unifying models from various modalities but often faces the "modality imbalance" problem in real data, leading to a bias towards dominant modalities and neglecting others, thereby limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yang Yang , Hongpeng Pan , Qing-Yuan Jiang , Yi Xu , Jinghui Tang

Over the last few years machine learning has demonstrated groundbreaking results in many areas of medical image analysis, including segmentation. A key assumption, however, is that the train- and test distributions match. We study a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Kenneth Lau , Jonas Adler , Jens Sjölund

Multimodal data collected from the real world are often imperfect due to missing modalities. Therefore multimodal models that are robust against modal-incomplete data are highly preferred. Recently, Transformer models have shown great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Mengmeng Ma , Jian Ren , Long Zhao , Davide Testuggine , Xi Peng

Majority of research in learning based methods has been towards designing and training networks for specific tasks. However, many of the learning based tasks, across modalities, share commonalities and could be potentially tackled in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Siddharth Srivastava , Gaurav Sharma

Large-scale multimodal models have shown excellent performance over a series of tasks powered by the large corpus of paired multimodal training data. Generally, they are always assumed to receive modality-complete inputs. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Lianyu Hu , Tongkai Shi , Wei Feng , Fanhua Shang , Liang Wan

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

The missing modality issue is critical but non-trivial to be solved by multi-modal models. Current methods aiming to handle the missing modality problem in multi-modal tasks, either deal with missing modalities only during evaluation or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Hu Wang , Yuanhong Chen , Congbo Ma , Jodie Avery , Louise Hull , Gustavo Carneiro

Multi-modal learning has made significant advances across diverse pattern recognition applications. However, handling missing modalities, especially under imbalanced missing rates, remains a major challenge. This imbalance triggers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Binyu Zhao , Wei Zhang , Zhaonian Zou

Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to identify the emotions expressed by individuals through visual, language, and acoustic cues. However, most existing research assume that all modalities are available during both training and testing,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weide Liu , Huijing Zhan

Learning multi-modal representations is an essential step towards real-world robotic applications, and various multi-modal fusion models have been developed for this purpose. However, we observe that existing models, whose objectives are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenzhuang Du , Tingle Li , Yichen Liu , Zixin Wen , Tianyu Hua , Yue Wang , Hang Zhao

Multimodal learning typically utilizes multimodal joint loss to integrate different modalities and enhance model performance. However, this joint learning strategy can induce modality imbalance, where strong modalities overwhelm weaker ones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Shijie Wang , Li Zhang , Xinyan Liang , Yuhua Qian , Shen Hu