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Cross-modal contrastive distillation has recently been explored for learning effective 3D representations. However, existing methods focus primarily on modality-shared features, neglecting the modality-specific features during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yifan Zhang , Junhui Hou

Multimodal learning plays a pivotal role in advancing artificial intelligence systems by incorporating information from multiple modalities to build a more comprehensive representation. Despite its importance, current state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Giordano Cicchetti , Eleonora Grassucci , Danilo Comminiello

Contrastive learning allows us to flexibly define powerful losses by contrasting positive pairs from sets of negative samples. Recently, the principle has also been used to learn cross-modal embeddings for video and text, yet without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Yi Zhu , Peter Gehler , Thomas Brox

Multimodal learning combines multiple data modalities, broadening the types and complexity of data our models can utilize: for example, from plain text to image-caption pairs. Most multimodal learning algorithms focus on modeling simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Minji Yoon , Jing Yu Koh , Bryan Hooi , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Multi-modal contrastive learning as a self-supervised representation learning technique has achieved great success in foundation model training, such as CLIP~\citep{radford2021learning}. In this paper, we study the theoretical properties of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-20 Yu Gui , Cong Ma , Zongming Ma

Understanding dark scenes based on multi-modal image data is challenging, as both the visible and auxiliary modalities provide limited semantic information for the task. Previous methods focus on fusing the two modalities but neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiaoyu Dong , Naoto Yokoya

Combining multimodal data is a key issue in a wide range of machine learning tasks, including many remote sensing problems. In Earth observation, early multimodal data fusion methods were based on specific neural network architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Romain Thoreau , Jessie Levillain , Dawa Derksen

The image-text retrieval task aims to retrieve relevant information from a given image or text. The main challenge is to unify multimodal representation and distinguish fine-grained differences across modalities, thereby finding similar…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Ziyu Gong , Chengcheng Mai , Yihua Huang

In this work, we address the critical yet underexplored challenge of symmetric multimodal-to-multimodal (MM2MM) retrieval, where queries and contexts are interchangeable. Existing universal multimodal retrieval works struggle with this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wenjie Yang , Hang Yu , Yuyu Guo , Peng Di

Real-world multi-agent tasks usually involve dynamic team composition with the emergence of roles, which should also be a key to efficient cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Drawing inspiration from the correlation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zican Hu , Zongzhang Zhang , Huaxiong Li , Chunlin Chen , Hongyu Ding , Zhi Wang

We address the problem of uncertainty quantification in time series forecasting by exploiting observations at correlated sequences. Relational deep learning methods leveraging graph representations are among the most effective tools for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Andrea Cini , Alexander Jenkins , Danilo Mandic , Cesare Alippi , Filippo Maria Bianchi

Multimodal affective computing aims to predict humans' sentiment, emotion, intention, and opinion using language, acoustic, and visual modalities. However, current models often learn spurious correlations that harm generalization under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sijie Mai , Shiqin Han

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a powerful paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) through external knowledge retrieval. Despite its widespread attention, existing academic research predominantly focuses on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yiruo Cheng , Kelong Mao , Ziliang Zhao , Guanting Dong , Hongjin Qian , Yongkang Wu , Tetsuya Sakai , Ji-Rong Wen , Zhicheng Dou

We introduce CLARGA, a general-purpose multimodal fusion architecture for multimodal representation learning that works with any number and type of modalities without changing the underlying framework. Given a supervised dataset, CLARGA can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Santosh Patapati

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) faces a fundamental structural contradiction between the high-discriminability demand and the sparse semantic supervision. This mismatch is particularly acute in highly homogeneous scenarios that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Shukun Jia , Shiyu Hu , Yipei Wang , Ximeng Cheng , Yichao Cao , Xiaobo Lu

We present novel method for image-text multi-modal representation learning. In our knowledge, this work is the first approach of applying adversarial learning concept to multi-modal learning and not exploiting image-text pair information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Gwangbeen Park , Woobin Im

Multimodal recommendation focuses primarily on effectively exploiting both behavioral and multimodal information for the recommendation task. However, most existing models suffer from the following issues when fusing information from two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Kangning Zhang , Yingjie Qin , Jiarui Jin , Yifan Liu , Ruilong Su , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Multimodal representation learning has been largely driven by contrastive models such as CLIP, which learn a shared embedding space by aligning paired image-text samples. While effective for general-purpose representation learning, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yang Qiao , Yuntong Hu , Bowen Zhu , Hasibul Haque , Liang Zhao

Multimodal representation learning seeks to relate and decompose information inherent in multiple modalities. By disentangling modality-specific information from information that is shared across modalities, we can improve interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chenyu Wang , Sharut Gupta , Xinyi Zhang , Sana Tonekaboni , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi Jaakkola , Caroline Uhler