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Multimodal federated learning holds immense potential for collaboratively training models from multiple sources without sharing raw data, addressing both data scarcity and privacy concerns, two key challenges in healthcare. A major…

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Multimodal data encountered in real-world scenarios are typically of low quality, with noisy modalities and missing modalities being typical forms that severely hinder model performance and robustness. However, prior works often handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sijie Mai , Shiqin Han , Haifeng Hu

Multimodal learning, which integrates diverse data sources such as images, text, and structured data, has proven superior to unimodal counterparts in high-stakes decision-making. However, while performance gains remain the gold standard for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Kishore Sampath , Pratheesh , Ayaazuddin Mohammad , Resmi Ramachandranpillai

The mechanism of connecting multimodal signals through self-attention operation is a key factor in the success of multimodal Transformer networks in remote sensing data fusion tasks. However, traditional approaches assume access to all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yuxing Chen , Maofan Zhao , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Multimodal learning integrates data from diverse sensors to effectively harness information from different modalities. However, recent studies reveal that joint learning often overfits certain modalities while neglecting others, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Feng Yu , Xiangyu Wu , Yang Yang , Jianfeng Lu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable performance for cross-modal understanding and generation, yet still suffer from severe inference costs. Recently, abundant works have been proposed to solve this problem with…

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The mainstream researche in deep metric learning can be divided into two genres: proxy-based and pair-based methods. Proxy-based methods have attracted extensive attention due to the lower training complexity and fast network convergence.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Xinyue Li , Jian Wang , Wei Song , Yanling Du , Zhixiang Liu

Multimodal models trained on complete modality data often exhibit a substantial decrease in performance when faced with imperfect data containing corruptions or missing modalities. To address this robustness challenge, prior methods have…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Mengxi Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Linyu Xing , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

In recent years, soft prompt learning methods have been proposed to fine-tune large-scale vision-language pre-trained models for various downstream tasks. These methods typically combine learnable textual tokens with class tokens as input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yingjie Tian , Yiqi Wang , Xianda Guo , Zheng Zhu , Long Chen

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) recently showed strong capacity in integrating data among multiple modalities, empowered by a generalizable attention architecture. Advanced methods predominantly focus on language-centric tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhicheng Zhang , Wuyou Xia , Chenxi Zhao , Zhou Yan , Xiaoqiang Liu , Yongjie Zhu , Wenyu Qin , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Jufeng Yang

Multimodal retrieval, which seeks to retrieve relevant content across modalities such as text or image, supports applications from AI search to contents production. Despite the success of separate-encoder approaches like CLIP align…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Shuyang Cui , Satoshi Hayakawa , Wei-Yao Wang , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

Contrastive loss has been increasingly used in learning representations from multiple modalities. In the limit, the nature of the contrastive loss encourages modalities to exactly match each other in the latent space. Yet it remains an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Qian Jiang , Changyou Chen , Han Zhao , Liqun Chen , Qing Ping , Son Dinh Tran , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi

Contrastive learning-based vision-language pre-training approaches, such as CLIP, have demonstrated great success in many vision-language tasks. These methods achieve cross-modal alignment by encoding a matched image-text pair with similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuxiao Chen , Jianbo Yuan , Yu Tian , Shijie Geng , Xinyu Li , Ding Zhou , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Hongxia Yang

Multimodal learning, which integrates data from diverse sensory modes, plays a pivotal role in artificial intelligence. However, existing multimodal learning methods often struggle with challenges where some modalities appear more dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaohui Zhang , Jaehong Yoon , Mohit Bansal , Huaxiu Yao

Addressing missing modalities and limited labeled data is crucial for advancing robust multimodal learning. We propose Robult, a scalable framework designed to mitigate these challenges by preserving modality-specific information and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Duy A. Nguyen , Abhi Kamboj , Minh N. Do

Robust multimodal systems must remain effective when some modalities are noisy, degraded, or unreliable. Existing multimodal fusion methods often learn modality selection jointly with representation learning, making it difficult to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Roland Bertin-Johannet , Lara Scipio , Leopold Maytié , Rufin VanRullen

Multimodal fusion is susceptible to modality imbalance, where dominant modalities overshadow weak ones, easily leading to biased learning and suboptimal fusion, especially for incomplete modality conditions. To address this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xiang Shi , Rui Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Yinpeng Liu , Qikai Cheng , Wei Lu

Multimodal Contrastive Learning (MCL) advances in aligning different modalities and generating multimodal representations in a joint space. By leveraging contrastive learning across diverse modalities, large-scale multimodal data enhances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

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

Multimodal learning has shown significant superiority on various tasks by integrating multiple modalities. However, the interdependencies among modalities increase the susceptibility of multimodal models to adversarial attacks. Existing…

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