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Learning multimodal representations is a fundamentally complex research problem due to the presence of multiple heterogeneous sources of information. Although the presence of multiple modalities provides additional valuable information,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Paul Pu Liang , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

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

Multi-modal reasoning plays a vital role in bridging the gap between textual and visual information, enabling a deeper understanding of the context. This paper presents the Feature Swapping Multi-modal Reasoning (FSMR) model, designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Shuang Li , Jiahua Wang , Lijie Wen

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

Multi-modal learning has achieved remarkable success by integrating information from various modalities, achieving superior performance in tasks like recognition and retrieval compared to uni-modal approaches. However, real-world scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , Zhuo Huang , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been widely applied to reasoning tasks. However, they suffer from limited multi-rationale semantic modeling, insufficient logical robustness, and are susceptible to misleading…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Chuang Yu , Jinmiao Zhao , Mingxuan Zhao , Yunpeng Liu , Xiujun Shu , Yuanhao Feng , Bo Wang , Xiangyu Yue

The potential of multimodal generative artificial intelligence (mAI) to replicate human grounded language understanding, including the pragmatic, context-rich aspects of communication, remains to be clarified. Humans are known to use…

Multimodal learning (MML) is significantly constrained by modality imbalance, leading to suboptimal performance in practice. While existing approaches primarily focus on balancing the learning of different modalities to address this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 QingYuan Jiang , Longfei Huang , Yang Yang

Audio and omni-modal large language models exhibit impressive cross-modal reasoning capabilities. However, applying standard reinforcement learning post-training algorithms to these models exposes a critical structural vulnerability:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Cihan Xiao , Yiwen Shao , Chenxing Li , Xiang He , Zhenwen Liang , Steve Yves , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Liefeng Bo

Omni-modal large language models (OLLMs) aim to unify audio, vision, and text understanding within a single framework. While existing benchmarks primarily evaluate general cross-modal question-answering ability, it remains unclear whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xingrui Wang , Jiang Liu , Chao Huang , Xiaodong Yu , Ze Wang , Ximeng Sun , Jialian Wu , Alan Yuille , Emad Barsoum , Zicheng Liu

Multimodal representation learning, exemplified by multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) using image-text pairs, aims to learn powerful representations by aligning cues across modalities. This approach relies on the core assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Erdun Gao , Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Existing benchmarks for multimodal memory reasoning largely evaluate systems within pre-assembled contexts, but under-evaluate whether agents can use evidence distributed across independently originated sources. We argue that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Huacan Chai , Yukai Wang , Yingxuan Yang , Dan Peng , Yuanyi Song , Zhihui Fu , Weiwen Liu , Jianghao Lin , Jun Wang , Weinan Zhang

Converting different modalities into generalized text, which then serves as input prompts for large language models (LLMs), is a common approach for aligning multimodal models, particularly when pairwise data is limited. Text-centric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yun-Da Tsai , Ting-Yu Yen , Keng-Te Liao , Shou-De Lin

Multi-modality fusion and multi-task learning are becoming trendy in 3D autonomous driving scenario, considering robust prediction and computation budget. However, naively extending the existing framework to the domain of multi-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zhijian Huang , Sihao Lin , Guiyu Liu , Mukun Luo , Chaoqiang Ye , Hang Xu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Multimodal foundation models have achieved impressive progress across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, existing approaches often adopt fixed or task-specific fusion strategies, neglecting the intrinsic variability of modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Liam Bennett , Mason Clark , Lucas Anderson , Hana Satou , Olivia Martinez

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yi Gu , Kuniaki Saito , Jiaxin Ma

Research on multi-modal learning dominantly aligns the modalities in a unified space at training, and only a single one is taken for prediction at inference. However, for a real machine, e.g., a robot, sensors could be added or removed at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Xu Zheng , Dahun Kim , Lin Wang

Multi-modal methods establish comprehensive superiority over uni-modal methods. However, the imbalanced contributions of different modalities to task-dependent predictions constantly degrade the discriminative performance of canonical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yi Li , Fei Song , Changwen Zheng , Jiangmeng Li , Fuchun Sun , Hui Xiong

Existing omni-modal benchmarks attempt to measure modality-specific contributions, but their measurements are confounded: naturally co-occurring modalities carry correlated yet unequal information, making it unclear whether results reflect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zabir Al Nazi , Shubhashis Roy Dipta , Md Rizwan Parvez

The complex world around us is inherently multimodal and sequential (continuous). Information is scattered across different modalities and requires multiple continuous sensors to be captured. As machine learning leaps towards better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Amir Zadeh , Chengfeng Mao , Kelly Shi , Yiwei Zhang , Paul Pu Liang , Soujanya Poria , Louis-Philippe Morency
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