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Multimodal Federated Learning (MFL) lies at the intersection of two pivotal research areas: leveraging complementary information from multiple modalities to improve downstream inference performance and enabling distributed training to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yuanzhe Peng , Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Yin Huang , Jie Xu

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

Consider end-to-end training of a multi-modal vs. a single-modal network on a task with multiple input modalities: the multi-modal network receives more information, so it should match or outperform its single-modal counterpart. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Weiyao Wang , Du Tran , Matt Feiszli

While humans excel at continual learning (CL), deep neural networks (DNNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. A salient feature of the brain that allows effective CL is that it utilizes multiple modalities for learning and inference, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Fahad Sarfraz , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Multimodal machine learning (MML) is rapidly reshaping the way mental-health disorders are detected, characterized, and longitudinally monitored. Whereas early studies relied on isolated data streams -- such as speech, text, or wearable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zahraa Al Sahili , Ioannis Patras , Matthew Purver

This book is the result of a seminar in which we reviewed multimodal approaches and attempted to create a solid overview of the field, starting with the current state-of-the-art approaches in the two subfields of Deep Learning individually.…

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) recently showed strong capacity in integrating data among multiple modalities, empowered by a generalizable attention architecture. Advanced methods predominantly focus on language-centric tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhicheng Zhang , Wuyou Xia , Chenxi Zhao , Zhou Yan , Xiaoqiang Liu , Yongjie Zhu , Wenyu Qin , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Jufeng Yang

Multimodal pathological images are usually in clinical diagnosis, but computer vision-based multimodal image-assisted diagnosis faces challenges with modality fusion, especially in the absence of expert-annotated data. To achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Qinghua Lin , Guang-Hai Liu , Zuoyong Li , Yang Li , Yuting Jiang , Xiang Wu

Multiple modalities can provide more valuable information than single one by describing the same contents in various ways. Hence, it is highly expected to learn effective joint representation by fusing the features of different modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Di Hu , Feiping Nie , Xuelong Li

Multimodal fusion leverages information across modalities to learn better feature representations with the goal of improving performance in fusion-based tasks. However, multimodal datasets, especially in medical settings, are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares , Farah E. Shamout

Omni-modal language models (OLMs) aim to integrate and reason over diverse input modalities--such as text, images, video, and audio--while maintaining strong language capabilities. Despite recent advancements, existing models, especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tinghui Zhu , Kai Zhang , Muhao Chen , Yu Su

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promising results in integrating diverse modalities such as texts and images. MLLMs are heavily influenced by modality bias, often relying on language while…

Knowledge Tracing is the process of tracking mastery level of different skills of students for a given learning domain. It is one of the key components for building adaptive learning systems and has been investigated for decades. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xinyi Ding , Tao Han , Yili Fang , Eric Larson

This paper studies the best practices for automatic machine learning (AutoML). While previous AutoML efforts have predominantly focused on unimodal data, the multimodal aspect remains under-explored. Our study delves into classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhiqiang Tang , Zihan Zhong , Tong He , Gerald Friedland

Instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising zero-shot generalization capabilities across various downstream tasks. Recent research has introduced multimodal capabilities to LLMs by integrating independently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Utsav Garg , Erhan Bas

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 seeks to combine data from multiple input sources to enhance the performance of different downstream tasks. In real-world scenarios, performance can degrade substantially if some input modalities are missing. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Niki Nezakati , Md Kaykobad Reza , Ameya Patil , Mashhour Solh , M. Salman Asif

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

Robot vision has greatly benefited from advancements in multimodal fusion techniques and vision-language models (VLMs). We adopt a task-oriented perspective to systematically review the applications and advancements of multimodal fusion…

The rapid evolution of machine learning has propelled neural networks to unprecedented success across diverse domains. In particular, multimodal learning has emerged as a transformative paradigm, leveraging complementary information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Fushuo Huo