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Multimodal learning, which aims to understand and analyze information from multiple modalities, has achieved substantial progress in the supervised regime in recent years. However, the heavy dependence on data paired with expensive human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Yongshuo Zong , Oisin Mac Aodha , Timothy Hospedales

The rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs) has transformed the AI landscape. These models combine pre-trained LLMs with various modality encoders. This integration requires a systematic understanding of how different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jisu An , Junseok Lee , Jeoungeun Lee , Yongseok Son

Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to extract and integrate semantic information collected from multiple modalities to recognize the expressed emotions and sentiment in multimodal data. This research area's major concern lies in developing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Wei Han , Hui Chen , Alexander Gelbukh , Amir Zadeh , Louis-philippe Morency , Soujanya Poria

Machine learning holds promise for advancing clinical decision support, yet it remains unclear when multimodal learning truly helps in practice, particularly under modality missingness and fairness constraints. In this work, we conduct a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kejing Yin , Haizhou Xu , Wenfang Yao , Chen Liu , Zijie Chen , Yui Haang Cheung , William K. Cheung , Jing Qin

Information fusion is used widely to improve document classification by the integration of multiple data sources (multimodal) or representations (multiview). However, the field lacks a unified framework, a quantitative synthesis of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Marcin Michał Mirończuk

In recent years, multi-modal fusion has attracted a lot of research interest, both in academia, and in industry. Multimodal fusion entails the combination of information from a set of different types of sensors. Exploiting complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Siddharth Roheda , Hamid Krim , Benjamin S. Riggan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shicai Wei , Chunbo Luo , Qiang Zhu , Yang Luo

Multimodal fusion integrates the complementary information present in multiple modalities and has gained much attention recently. Most existing fusion approaches either learn a fixed fusion strategy during training and inference, or are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Jinhong Ni , Yalong Bai , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Human perception of the empirical world involves recognizing the diverse appearances, or 'modalities', of underlying objects. Despite the longstanding consideration of this perspective in philosophy and cognitive science, the study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhou Lu

Beyond achieving high performance across many vision tasks, multimodal models are expected to be robust to single-source faults due to the availability of redundant information between modalities. In this paper, we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Karren Yang , Wan-Yi Lin , Manash Barman , Filipe Condessa , Zico Kolter

Multimodal AI models are increasingly used in fields like healthcare, finance, and autonomous driving, where information is drawn from multiple sources or modalities such as images, texts, audios, videos. However, effectively managing…

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Link prediction aims to identify potential missing triples in knowledge graphs. To get better results, some recent studies have introduced multimodal information to link prediction. However, these methods utilize multimodal information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Xinhang Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Jiaxing Xu , Yong Zhang , Chunxiao Xing

Feature alignment serves as the primary mechanism for fusing multimodal data. We put forth a feature alignment approach that achieves full integration of multimodal information. This is accomplished via an alternating process of shifting…

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Real-world problems are often dependent on multiple data modalities, making multimodal fusion essential for leveraging diverse information sources. In high-stakes domains, such as in healthcare, understanding how each modality contributes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mafalda Malafaia , Thalea Schlender , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Multimodal networks have demonstrated remarkable performance improvements over their unimodal counterparts. Existing multimodal networks are designed in a multi-branch fashion that, due to the reliance on fusion strategies, exhibit…

Multimodal sentiment analysis in federated learning environments faces significant challenges due to missing modalities, heterogeneous data distributions, and unreliable client updates. Existing federated approaches often struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xianxun Zhu , Zezhong Sun , Imad Rida , Erik Cambria , Junqi Su , Rui Wang , Hui Chen

Multimodal video understanding plays a crucial role in tasks such as action recognition and emotion classification by combining information from different modalities. However, multimodal models are prone to overfitting strong modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiaoyu Ma , Ding Ding , Hao Chen

Multimodal learning enhances the performance of various machine learning tasks by leveraging complementary information across different modalities. However, existing methods often learn multimodal representations that retain substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tong Zhang , Shu Shen , C. L. Philip Chen

Multimodal learning seeks to utilize data from multiple sources to improve the overall performance of downstream tasks. It is desirable for redundancies in the data to make multimodal systems robust to missing or corrupted observations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Md Kaykobad Reza , Ashley Prater-Bennette , M. Salman Asif