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Numerous studies attempt to mitigate classification bias caused by class imbalance. However, existing studies have yet to explore the collaborative optimization of imbalanced learning and model training. This constraint hinders further…

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Multimodal learning has attracted increasing attention due to its practicality. However, it often suffers from insufficient optimization, where the multimodal model underperforms even compared to its unimodal counterparts. Existing methods…

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To overcome the imbalanced multimodal learning problem, where models prefer the training of specific modalities, existing methods propose to control the training of uni-modal encoders from different perspectives, taking the inter-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yake Wei , Siwei Li , Ruoxuan Feng , Di Hu

Traditional multimodal methods often assume static modality quality, which limits their adaptability in dynamic real-world scenarios. Thus, dynamical multimodal methods are proposed to assess modality quality and adjust their contribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shicai Wei , Kaijie Zhang , Luyi Chen , Tao He , Guiduo Duan

Multimodal learning often encounters the under-optimized problem and may perform worse than unimodal learning. Existing approaches attribute this issue to imbalanced learning across modalities and tend to address it through gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shicai Wei , Chunbo Luo , Yang Luo

The strength of multimodal learning lies in its ability to integrate information from various sources, providing rich and comprehensive insights. However, in real-world scenarios, multi-modal systems often face the challenge of dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Xiyuan Gao , Bing Cao , Pengfei Zhu , Nannan Wang , Qinghua Hu

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

Multimodal models have been proven to outperform text-based models on learning semantic word representations. Almost all previous multimodal models typically treat the representations from different modalities equally. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Shaonan Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

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

Multimodal deep learning systems which employ multiple modalities like text, image, audio, video, etc., are showing better performance in comparison with individual modalities (i.e., unimodal) systems. Multimodal machine learning involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Anil Rahate , Rahee Walambe , Sheela Ramanna , Ketan Kotecha

Multimodal representation learning is fundamentally about transforming incomparable modalities into comparable representations. While prior research primarily focused on explicitly aligning these representations through targeted learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Megan Tjandrasuwita , Chanakya Ekbote , Liu Ziyin , Paul Pu Liang

We learn about the world from a diverse range of sensory information. Automated systems lack this ability as investigation has centred on processing information presented in a single form. Adapting architectures to learn from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jason Armitage , Shramana Thakur , Rishi Tripathi , Jens Lehmann , Maria Maleshkova

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

Learning-enabled control systems increasingly rely on multiple sensing modalities (e.g., vision, audio, language, etc.) for perception and decision support. A key challenge is that multi-modal sensor training dynamics are often imbalanced:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Heshan Fernando , Quan Xiao , Parikshit Ram , Yi Zhou , Horst Samulowitz , Nathalie Baracaldo , Tianyi Chen

Audio-visual learning helps to comprehensively understand the world by fusing practical information from multiple modalities. However, recent studies show that the imbalanced optimization of uni-modal encoders in a joint-learning model is a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Ruize Xu , Ruoxuan Feng , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Di Hu

Multimodal fusion is susceptible to modality imbalance, where dominant modalities overshadow weak ones, easily leading to biased learning and suboptimal fusion, especially for incomplete modality conditions. To address this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xiang Shi , Rui Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Yinpeng Liu , Qikai Cheng , Wei Lu

As audio-visual systems are being deployed for safety-critical tasks such as surveillance and malicious content filtering, their robustness remains an under-studied area. Existing published work on robustness either does not scale to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Juncheng B Li , Shuhui Qu , Xinjian Li , Po-Yao Huang , Florian Metze

Multimodal learning systems often encounter challenges related to modality imbalance, where a dominant modality may overshadow others, thereby hindering the learning of weak modalities. Conventional approaches often force weak modalities to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Baoquan Gong , Xiyuan Gao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Bing Cao

Multimodal learning often suffers from modality imbalance, where modalities that converge faster dominate optimization while others remain undertrained. Existing approaches typically mitigate this issue by strengthening the weak modality or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoyu Ma , Weijie Zhang , Yuanhao Gao , Han Miao , Yongjian Deng , Hao Chen

Humans perceive the world by concurrently processing and fusing high-dimensional inputs from multiple modalities such as vision and audio. Machine perception models, in stark contrast, are typically modality-specific and optimised for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Arsha Nagrani , Shan Yang , Anurag Arnab , Aren Jansen , Cordelia Schmid , Chen Sun