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Multi-modal models have shown a promising capability to effectively integrate information from various sources, yet meanwhile, they are found vulnerable to pervasive perturbations, such as uni-modal attacks and missing conditions. To…

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Multimodal representation learning aims to construct a shared embedding space in which heterogeneous modalities are semantically aligned. Despite strong empirical results, InfoNCE-based objectives introduce inherent conflicts that yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Wenzhe Yin , Pan Zhou , Zehao Xiao , Jie Liu , Shujian Yu , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

Multimodal learning (MML) aims to jointly exploit the common priors of different modalities to compensate for their inherent limitations. However, existing MML methods often optimize a uniform objective for different modalities, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yunfeng Fan , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Junxiao Wang , Song Guo

We investigate the problem of multimodal search of target modality, where the task involves enhancing a query in a specific target modality by integrating information from auxiliary modalities. The goal is to retrieve relevant objects whose…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengzhao Wang , Xiangyu Ke , Xiaoliang Xu , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Pinpin Huang , Runkai Zhu

We address prevailing challenges of the brain-powered research, departing from the observation that the literature hardly recover accurate spatial information and require subject-specific models. To address these challenges, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Weihao Xia , Raoul de Charette , Cengiz Öztireli , Jing-Hao Xue

Universal multimodal retrieval (UMR), which aims to address complex retrieval tasks where both queries and candidates span diverse modalities, has been significantly advanced by the emergence of MLLMs. While state-of-the-art MLLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xiaojie Li , Chu Li , Shi-Zhe Chen , Xi Chen

With the exponential surge in diverse multi-modal data, traditional uni-modal retrieval methods struggle to meet the needs of users seeking access to data across various modalities. To address this, cross-modal retrieval has emerged,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Tianshi Wang , Fengling Li , Lei Zhu , Jingjing Li , Zheng Zhang , Heng Tao Shen

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) has attracted growing attention with the rapid advancement of human-computer interaction. However, different modalities exhibit substantial discrepancies in semantics, quality, and availability, leading…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yan Zhuang , Minhao Liu , Yanru Zhang , Jiawen Deng , Fuji Ren

Edge-cloud synergies provide a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving deployment of foundation models, where lightweight on-device models adapt to domain-specific data and cloud-hosted models coordinate knowledge sharing. However, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuze Liu , Shibo Chu , Tiehua Zhang , Hao Zhou , Zhishu Shen , Jinze Wang , Jianzhong Qi , Feng Xia

Multimodal Re-Identification (ReID) is a popular retrieval task that aims to re-identify objects across diverse data streams, prompting many researchers to integrate multiple modalities into a unified representation. While such fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jennifer Crawford , Haoli Yin , Luke McDermott , Daniel Cummings

In deepfake detection, the varying degrees of compression employed by social media platforms pose significant challenges for model generalization and reliability. Although existing methods have progressed from single-modal to multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ching-Yi Lai , Chih-Yu Jian , Pei-Cheng Chuang , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu , Chiou-Ting Hsu , Chia-Wen Lin

To address the modality learning degeneration caused by modality imbalance, existing multimodal learning~(MML) approaches primarily attempt to balance the optimization process of each modality from the perspective of model learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Qingyuan Jiang , Zhouyang Chi , Xiao Ma , Qirong Mao , Yang Yang , Jinhui Tang

Multimodal retrieval is the task of aggregating information from queries across heterogeneous modalities to retrieve desired targets. State-of-the-art multimodal retrieval models can understand complex queries, yet they are typically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chuong Huynh , Manh Luong , Abhinav Shrivastava

Cross-modal retrieval is the task of retrieving samples of a given modality by using queries of a different one. Due to the wide range of practical applications, the problem has been mainly focused on the vision and language case, e.g. text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jorge Sánchez , Rodrigo Laguna

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

Multimodal learning typically relies on the assumption that all modalities are fully available during both the training and inference phases. However, in real-world scenarios, consistently acquiring complete multimodal data presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Donggeun Kim , Taesup Kim

The aim of multimodal neural networks is to combine diverse data sources, referred to as modalities, to achieve enhanced performance compared to relying on a single modality. However, training of multimodal networks is typically hindered by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares , Farah E. Shamout

Radiologists must utilize multiple modal images for tumor segmentation and diagnosis due to the limitations of medical imaging and the diversity of tumor signals. This leads to the development of multimodal learning in segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Chuyun Shen , Wenhao Li , Haoqing Chen , Xiaoling Wang , Fengping Zhu , Yuxin Li , Xiangfeng Wang , Bo Jin

Multimodal learning has demonstrated incredible successes by integrating diverse data sources, yet it often relies on the availability of all modalities - an assumption that rarely holds in real-world applications. Pretrained multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Duy A. Nguyen , Quan Huu Do , Khoa D. Doan , Minh N. Do

Multimodal learning seeks to combine data from multiple input sources to enhance the performance of different downstream tasks. In real-world scenarios, performance can degrade substantially if some input modalities are missing. Existing…

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