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The imbalance problem is widespread in the field of machine learning, which also exists in multimodal learning areas caused by the intrinsic discrepancy between modalities of samples. Recent works have attempted to solve the modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wenke Xia , Xu Zhao , Xincheng Pang , Changqing Zhang , Di Hu

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

Multimodal learning integrates diverse modalities but suffers from modality imbalance, where dominant modalities suppress weaker ones due to inconsistent convergence rates. Existing methods predominantly rely on static modulation or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhaocheng Liu , Zhiwen Yu , Xiaoqing Liu

Multimodal learning has increasingly become a focal point in research, primarily due to its ability to integrate complementary information from diverse modalities. Nevertheless, modality imbalance, stemming from factors such as insufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Rongrong Xie , Guido Sanguinetti

Learning from multiple modalities, such as audio and video, offers opportunities for leveraging complementary information, enhancing robustness, and improving contextual understanding and performance. However, combining such modalities…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Konstantinos Kontras , Christos Chatzichristos , Matthew Blaschko , Maarten De Vos

Multimodal learning has significantly enhanced machine learning performance but still faces numerous challenges and limitations. Imbalanced multimodal learning is one of the problems extensively studied in recent works and is typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shu Shen , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang

Training multimodal networks requires a vast amount of data due to their larger parameter space compared to unimodal networks. Active learning is a widely used technique for reducing data annotation costs by selecting only those samples…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Meng Shen , Yizheng Huang , Jianxiong Yin , Heqing Zou , Deepu Rajan , Simon See

Multimodal models often converge to a dominant-modality solution, in which a stronger, faster-converging modality overshadows weaker ones. This modality imbalance causes suboptimal performance. Existing methods attempt to balance different…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zechang Xiong , Da Li , Kexin Tang , Pengyuan Li , Wenkang Kong , Yulan Hu

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 helps to comprehensively understand the world, by integrating different senses. Accordingly, multiple input modalities are expected to boost model performance, but we actually find that they are not fully exploited even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xiaokang Peng , Yake Wei , Andong Deng , Dong Wang , Di Hu

Multimodal learning has become a prominent research area, with the potential of substantial performance gains by combining information across modalities. At the same time, model development has trended toward increasingly complex deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tillmann Rheude , Roland Eils , Benjamin Wild

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

Due to the notorious modality imbalance problem, multimodal learning (MML) leads to the phenomenon of optimization imbalance, thus struggling to achieve satisfactory performance. Recently, some representative methods have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Qing-Yuan Jiang , Zhouyang Chi , Yang Yang

Selecting proper clients to participate in each federated learning (FL) round is critical to effectively harness a broad range of distributed data. Existing client selection methods simply consider the mining of distributed uni-modal data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yunfeng Fan , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Fushuo Huo , Jinyu Chen , Song Guo

Multi-modal learning is a fast growing area in artificial intelligence. It tries to help machines understand complex things by combining information from different sources, like images, text, and audio. By using the strengths of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Qihang Jin , Enze Ge , Yuhang Xie , Hongying Luo , Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Chia Xin Liang , Jibin Guan , Joe Yeong , Xinyuan Song , Junfeng Hao

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

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 faces two major challenges: modality imbalance and data noise, which significantly affect the robustness and generalization ability of models. Existing methods achieve modality balance by suppressing dominant modalities,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zijing Xu , Yunfeng Kou , Kunming Wu , Hong Liu

Multimodal models often over-rely on dominant modalities, failing to achieve optimal performance. While prior work focuses on modifying training objectives or optimization procedures, data-centric solutions remain underexplored. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Seong-Hyeon Hwang , Soyoung Choi , Steven Euijong Whang

Medical decision systems increasingly rely on data from multiple sources to ensure reliable and unbiased diagnosis. However, existing multimodal learning models fail to achieve this goal because they often ignore two critical challenges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Md Zubair , Hao Zheng , Nussdorf Jonathan , Grayson W. Armstrong , Lucy Q. Shen , Gabriela Wilson , Yu Tian , Xingquan Zhu , Min Shi
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