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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…

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Multimodal learning is defined as learning over multiple heterogeneous input modalities such as video, audio, and text. In this work, we are concerned with understanding how models behave as the type of modalities differ between training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Brandon McKinzie , Joseph Cheng , Vaishaal Shankar , Yinfei Yang , Jonathon Shlens , Alexander Toshev

Creating a meaningful representation by fusing single modalities (e.g., text, images, or audio) is the core concept of multimodal learning. Although several techniques for building multimodal representations have been proven successful,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Maciej Pawłowski , Anna Wróblewska , Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk

Multimodal learning enhances the performance of various machine learning tasks by leveraging complementary information across different modalities. However, existing methods often learn multimodal representations that retain substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tong Zhang , Shu Shen , C. L. Philip Chen

In the era of big data, data mining has become indispensable for uncovering hidden patterns and insights from vast and complex datasets. The integration of multimodal data sources further enhances its potential. Multimodal Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Lishan Yang , Wei Emma Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng , Lina Yao , Weitong Chen , Ali Shakeri

Recently, Multimodal Learning (MML) has gained significant interest as it compensates for single-modality limitations through comprehensive complementary information within multimodal data. However, traditional MML methods generally use the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yunfeng Fan , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Junhong Liu , Song Guo

Multimodal representation learning harmonizes distinct modalities by aligning them into a unified latent space. Recent research generalizes traditional cross-modal alignment to produce enhanced multimodal synergy but requires all modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , Jiaheng Wei , Shuo Yang , Xiu Su , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

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

A fundamental problem in robotic perception is matching identical objects or data, with applications such as loop closure detection, place recognition, object tracking, and map fusion. While the problem becomes considerably more challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Parker C. Lusk , Ronak Roy , Kaveh Fathian , Jonathan P. How

Combining multimodal data is a key issue in a wide range of machine learning tasks, including many remote sensing problems. In Earth observation, early multimodal data fusion methods were based on specific neural network architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Romain Thoreau , Jessie Levillain , Dawa Derksen

Nowadays, cross-modal retrieval plays an indispensable role to flexibly find information across different modalities of data. Effectively measuring the similarity between different modalities of data is the key of cross-modal retrieval.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Yuxin Peng , Jinwei Qi , Yuxin Yuan

Learning based on multimodal data has attracted increasing interest recently. While a variety of sensory modalities can be collected for training, not all of them are always available in development scenarios, which raises the challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shicai Wei , Yang Luo , Chunbo Luo

Multimodal learning is expected to boost model performance by integrating information from different modalities. However, its potential is not fully exploited because the widely-used joint training strategy, which has a uniform objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yake Wei , Di Hu , Henghui Du , Ji-Rong Wen

Decentralized learning is widely employed for collaboratively training models using distributed data over wireless networks. Existing decentralized learning methods primarily focus on training single-modal networks. For the decentralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Benshun Yin , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao

Multimodal deep learning (MDL) has emerged as a transformative approach in computational pathology. By integrating complementary information from multiple data sources, MDL models have demonstrated superior predictive performance across…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-17 Seth Alain Chang , Muhammad Mueez Amjad , Noorul Wahab , Ethar Alzaid , Nasir Rajpoot , Adam Shephard

Multimodal learning aims to discover the relationship between multiple modalities. It has become an important research topic due to extensive multimodal applications such as cross-modal retrieval. This paper attempts to address the modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Guoli Song , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

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 machine learning, mimicking the human brain's ability to integrate various modalities has seen rapid growth. Most previous multimodal models are trained on perfectly paired multimodal input to reach optimal performance. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ronghao Lin , Qiaolin He , Sijie Mai , Ying Zeng , Aolin Xiong , Li Huang , Yap-Peng Tan , Haifeng Hu

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

Multilingual proficiency presents a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs). English-centric models are usually suboptimal in other languages, particularly those that are linguistically distant from English. This performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Geyu Lin , Bin Wang , Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen