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Multimodal learning often relies on aligning representations across modalities to enable effective information integration, an approach traditionally assumed to be universally beneficial. However, prior research has primarily taken an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wanlong Fang , Tianle Zhang , Alvin Chan

Representation learning is typically applied to only one mode of a data matrix, either its rows or columns. Yet in many applications, there is an underlying geometry to both the rows and the columns. We propose utilizing this coupled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-17 Gal Mishne , Eric C. Chi , Ronald R. Coifman

Multimodal models have demonstrated powerful capabilities in complex tasks requiring multimodal alignment, including zero-shot classification and cross-modal retrieval. However, existing models typically rely on millions of paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Fabian Gröger , Shuo Wen , Huyen Le , Maria Brbić

Multi-modal embeddings form the foundation for vision-language models, such as CLIP embeddings, the most widely used text-image embeddings. However, these embeddings are vulnerable to subtle misalignment of cross-modal features, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yilin Ye , Shishi Xiao , Xingchen Zeng , Wei Zeng

Delivering meaningful uncertainty estimates is essential for a successful deployment of machine learning models in the clinical practice. A central aspect of uncertainty quantification is the ability of a model to return predictions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Adrian Galdran , Johan Verjans , Gustavo Carneiro , Miguel A. González Ballester

Single-model systems often suffer from deficiencies in tasks such as speaker verification (SV) and image classification, relying heavily on partial prior knowledge during decision-making, resulting in suboptimal performance. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Zuheng Kang , Yayun He , Jianzong Wang , Junqing Peng , Jing Xiao

Multi-view multi-label learning frequently suffers from simultaneous feature absence and incomplete annotations, due to challenges in data acquisition and cost-intensive supervision. To tackle the complex yet highly practical problem while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Quanjiang Li , Zhiming Liu , Tianxiang Xu , Tingjin Luo , Chenping Hou

With the development of multimedia systems, multimodal recommendations are playing an essential role, as they can leverage rich contexts beyond interactions. Existing methods mainly regard multimodal information as an auxiliary, using them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yifan Liu , Kangning Zhang , Xiangyuan Ren , Yanhua Huang , Jiarui Jin , Yingjie Qin , Ruilong Su , Ruiwen Xu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

MultiModal Recommendation (MMR) systems have emerged as a promising solution for improving recommendation quality by leveraging rich item-side modality information, prompting a surge of diverse methods. Despite these advances, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Xiaoxiong Zhang , Xin Zhou , Zhiwei Zeng , Yongjie Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiqi Shen

Continual learning aims to learn knowledge of tasks observed in sequential time steps while mitigating the forgetting of previously learned knowledge. Existing methods were designed to learn a single modality (e.g., image) over time, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hyundong Jin , Eunwoo Kim

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

Calibration is commonly evaluated by comparing model confidence with its empirical correctness, implicitly treating reliability as a function of the confidence score alone. However, this view can hide substantial structure: models may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Katarzyna Kobalczyk , Mihaela van der Schaar

Person identification systems often rely on audio, visual, or behavioral cues, but real-world conditions frequently present with missing or degraded modalities. To address this challenge, we propose a multimodal person identification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Aref Farhadipour , Teodora Vukovic , Volker Dellwo , Petr Motlicek , Srikanth Madikeri

Recent work has shown that representation learning plays a critical role in sample-efficient reinforcement learning (RL) from pixels. Unfortunately, in real-world scenarios, representation learning is usually fragile to task-irrelevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Qiyuan Liu , Qi Zhou , Rui Yang , Jie Wang

Multimodal representation learning aims to capture both shared and complementary semantic information across multiple modalities. However, the intrinsic heterogeneity of diverse modalities presents substantial challenges to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chengxuan Qian , Shuo Xing , Shawn Li , Yue Zhao , Zhengzhong Tu

Despite the success of multimodal contrastive learning in aligning visual and linguistic representations, a persistent geometric anomaly, the Modality Gap, remains: embeddings of distinct modalities expressing identical semantics occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiaomin Yu , Yi Xin , Yuhui Zhang , Wenjie Zhang , Chonghan Liu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chen Liu , Xiaoxing Hu , Ziyue Qiao , Hao Tang , Xiaobin Hu , Chengwei Qin , Hui Xiong , Yu Qiao , Shuicheng Yan

Most recommender systems adopt collaborative filtering (CF) and provide recommendations based on past collective interactions. Therefore, the performance of CF algorithms degrades when few or no interactions are available, a scenario…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Christian Ganhör , Marta Moscati , Anna Hausberger , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

Cross-modal retrieval is the task of retrieving samples of a given modality by using queries of a different one. Due to the wide range of practical applications, the problem has been mainly focused on the vision and language case, e.g. text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jorge Sánchez , Rodrigo Laguna

This survey provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in multimodal alignment and fusion within the field of machine learning, driven by the increasing availability and diversity of data modalities such as text, images, audio,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Songtao Li , Hao Tang

Recent advances in learning aligned multimodal representations have been primarily driven by training large neural networks on massive, noisy paired-modality datasets. In this work, we ask whether it is possible to achieve similar results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Elan Rosenfeld , Preetum Nakkiran , Hadi Pouransari , Oncel Tuzel , Fartash Faghri