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A fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence is learning useful representations of data that yield good performance on a downstream task, without overfitting to spurious input features. Extracting such task-relevant predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Kristy Choi , Amir Khasahmadi , Anirudh Goyal

Contrastive learning demonstrates great promise for representation learning. Data augmentations play a critical role in contrastive learning by providing informative views of the data without necessitating explicit labels. Nonetheless, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Zihu Wang , Yu Wang , Zhuotong Chen , Hanbin Hu , Peng Li

The online emergence of multi-modal sharing platforms (eg, TikTok, Youtube) is powering personalized recommender systems to incorporate various modalities (eg, visual, textual and acoustic) into the latent user representations. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wei Wei , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chuxu Zhang

Change captioning aims to succinctly describe the semantic change between a pair of similar images, while being immune to distractors (illumination and viewpoint changes). Under these distractors, unchanged objects often appear pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yunbin Tu , Liang Li , Li Su , Chenggang Yan , Qingming Huang

Multimodal sentiment analysis is a fundamental problem in the field of affective computing. Although significant progress has been made in cross-modal interaction, it remains a challenge due to the insufficient reference context in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xianbing Zhao , Shengzun Yang , Buzhou Tang , Ronghuan Jiang

This technical report provides extra details of the deep multimodal similarity model (DMSM) which was proposed in (Fang et al. 2015, arXiv:1411.4952). The model is trained via maximizing global semantic similarity between images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Xiaodong He , Rupesh Srivastava , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

Learning transferable and domain adaptive feature representations from videos is important for video-relevant tasks such as action recognition. Existing video domain adaptation methods mainly rely on adversarial feature alignment, which has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Donghyun Kim , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Bingbing Zhuang , Xiang Yu , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko , Manmohan Chandraker

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki

Multi-view representation learning aims to capture comprehensive information from multiple views of a shared context. Recent works intuitively apply contrastive learning to different views in a pairwise manner, which is still scalable:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jiangmeng Li , Hang Gao , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng

In multimodal representation learning, synergistic interactions between modalities not only provide complementary information but also create unique outcomes through specific interaction patterns that no single modality could achieve alone.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Liangjian Wen , Qun Dai , Jianzhuang Liu , Jiangtao Zheng , Yong Dai , Dongkai Wang , Zhao Kang , Jun Wang , Zenglin Xu , Jiang Duan

This paper proposes a single-stage training approach that semantically aligns three modalities - audio, visual, and text using a contrastive learning framework. Contrastive training has gained prominence for multimodal alignment, utilizing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Irene Martín-Morató , Tuomas Virtanen

Understanding the semantic shifts of multimodal information is only possible with models that capture cross-modal interactions over time. Under this paradigm, a new embedding is needed that structures visual-textual interactions according…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-10-01 David Semedo , João Magalhães

Accurately predicting the likelihood of interaction between two objects (compound-protein sequence, user-item, author-paper, etc.) is a fundamental problem in Computer Science. Current deep-learning models rely on learning accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Apurva Kalia , Dilip Krishnan , Soha Hassoun

Collaborative game-based learning environments offer rich opportunities for small-group knowledge construction, yet automatically predicting student collaboration satisfaction remains challenging. A critical barrier is modality degradation:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wen-Hsin Tsai , Chia-Ming Lee , Yuk-Ying Tung

Humans perceive the world through multimodal cues to understand and interact with the environment. Learning a scene representation for multiple modalities enhances comprehension of the physical world. However, modality conflicts, arising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zhifeng Gu , Bing Wang

Aligning signals from different modalities is an important step in vision-language representation learning as it affects the performance of later stages such as cross-modality fusion. Since image and text typically reside in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jiali Duan , Liqun Chen , Son Tran , Jinyu Yang , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi

The common research goal of self-supervised learning is to extract a general representation which an arbitrary downstream task would benefit from. In this work, we investigate music audio representation learned from different contrastive…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jeong Choi , Seongwon Jang , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

The rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) usage has highlighted the importance of gradient-free in-context learning (ICL). However, interpreting their inner workings remains challenging. This paper introduces a novel multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yosuke Miyanishi , Minh Le Nguyen

Multimodal learning plays a pivotal role in advancing artificial intelligence systems by incorporating information from multiple modalities to build a more comprehensive representation. Despite its importance, current state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Giordano Cicchetti , Eleonora Grassucci , Danilo Comminiello

The effectiveness of contrastive learning in sequential recommendation hinges on the construction of contrastive views, which ideally should be both semantically consistent and diverse. However, most existing CL-based methods rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wei Wang