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Missing modalities are a common challenge in real-world multimodal learning scenarios, occurring during both training and testing. Existing methods for managing missing modalities often require the design of separate prompts for each…

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Multimodal semantic segmentation enhances model robustness by exploiting cross-modal complementarities. However, existing methods often suffer from imbalanced modal dependencies, where overall performance degrades significantly once a…

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Multi-modal class-incremental learning (MMCIL) seeks to leverage multi-modal data, such as audio-visual and image-text pairs, thereby enabling models to learn continuously across a sequence of tasks while mitigating forgetting. While…

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Missing-modality information on e-commerce platforms, such as absent product images or textual descriptions, often arises from annotation errors or incomplete metadata, impairing both product presentation and downstream applications such as…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Junchen Fu , Wenhao Deng , Kaiwen Zheng , Ioannis Arapakis , Yu Ye , Yongxin Ni , Joemon M. Jose , Xuri Ge

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 models integrating natural language and visual information have substantially improved generalization of representation models. However, their effectiveness significantly declines in real-world situations where certain modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiajun Chen , Sai Cheng , Yutao Yuan , Yirui Zhang , Haitao Yuan , Peng Peng , Yi Zhong

Recently, multimodal prompting, which introduces learnable missing-aware prompts for all missing modality cases, has exhibited impressive performance. However, it encounters two critical issues: 1) The number of prompts grows exponentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jaehyuk Jang , Yooseung Wang , Changick Kim

An active challenge in developing multimodal machine learning (ML) models for healthcare is handling missing modalities during training and deployment. As clinical datasets are inherently temporal and sparse in terms of modality presence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Andrew Wang , Ellie Pavlick , Ritambhara Singh

During multimodal model training and testing, certain data modalities may be absent due to sensor limitations, cost constraints, privacy concerns, or data loss, negatively affecting performance. Multimodal learning techniques designed to…

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Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) is an important way of observing mental activities with the help of data captured from multiple modalities. However, due to the recording or transmission error, some modalities may include incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Haozhe Chi , Minghua Yang , Junhao Zhu , Guanhong Wang , Gaoang Wang

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

Multimodal knowledge graph completion (MKGC) aims to predict missing entities in MKGs. Previous works usually share relation representation across modalities. This results in mutual interference between modalities during training, since for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Yu Zhao , Xiangrui Cai , Yike Wu , Haiwei Zhang , Ying Zhang , Guoqing Zhao , Ning Jiang

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…

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Multi-modal recommender systems (MRSs) have achieved notable success in improving personalization by leveraging diverse modalities such as images, text, and audio. However, two key challenges remain insufficiently addressed: (1)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jiwan Kim , Hongseok Kang , Sein Kim , Kibum Kim , Chanyoung Park

Multi-modal learning relates information across observation modalities of the same physical phenomenon to leverage complementary information. Most multi-modal machine learning methods require that all the modalities used for training are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Vandana Rajan , Alessio Brutti , Andrea Cavallaro

One primary topic of multimodal learning is to jointly incorporate heterogeneous information from different modalities. However most models often suffer from unsatisfactory multimodal cooperation which cannot jointly utilize all modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yake Wei , Ruoxuan Feng , Zihe Wang , Di Hu

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

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

Multimodal learning has shown significant performance boost compared to ordinary unimodal models across various domains. However, in real-world scenarios, multimodal signals are susceptible to missing because of sensor failures and adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nhi Kieu , Kien Nguyen , Arnold Wiliem , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

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