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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

Multimodal retrieval, which seeks to retrieve relevant content across modalities such as text or image, supports applications from AI search to contents production. Despite the success of separate-encoder approaches like CLIP align…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Shuyang Cui , Satoshi Hayakawa , Wei-Yao Wang , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

Multi-modal representation learning has become a pivotal area in artificial intelligence, enabling the integration of diverse modalities such as vision, text, and audio to solve complex problems. However, existing approaches predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sangyeon Cho , Jangyeong Jeon , Mingi Kim , Junyeong Kim

Multi-modal data is becoming more common in big data background. Finding the semantically similar objects from different modality is one of the heart problems of multi-modal learning. Most of the current methods try to learn the inter-modal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Qibin Zheng , Xingchun Diao , Jianjun Cao , Xiaolei Zhou , Yi Liu , Hongmei Li

Heterogeneous gap among different modalities emerges as one of the critical issues in modern AI problems. Unlike traditional uni-modal cases, where raw features are extracted and directly measured, the heterogeneous nature of cross modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Aiwen Jiang , Hanxi Li , Yi Li , Mingwen Wang

Metal artefact reduction (MAR) techniques aim at removing metal-induced noise from clinical images. In Computed Tomography (CT), supervised deep learning approaches have been shown effective but limited in generalisability, as they mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Marta B. M. Ranzini , Irme Groothuis , Kerstin Kläser , M. Jorge Cardoso , Johann Henckel , Sébastien Ourselin , Alister Hart , Marc Modat

Artificial intelligence has shown remarkable success in materials discovery and property prediction, particularly for crystalline and polymer systems where material properties and structures are dominated by discrete graph representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xinyao Li , Hangwei Qian , Jingjing Li , Lei Zhu , Ivor Tsang

We propose contrastive coding to learn shared, dense image representations, referred to as CoMIRs (Contrastive Multimodal Image Representations). CoMIRs enable the registration of multimodal images where existing registration methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Nicolas Pielawski , Elisabeth Wetzer , Johan Öfverstedt , Jiahao Lu , Carolina Wählby , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Semi-supervised learning has become increasingly popular in medical image segmentation due to its ability to leverage large amounts of unlabeled data to extract additional information. However, most existing semi-supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Shengbo Gao , Ziji Zhang , Jiechao Ma , Zihao Li , Shu Zhang

Learning effective joint embedding for cross-modal data has always been a focus in the field of multimodal machine learning. We argue that during multimodal fusion, the generated multimodal embedding may be redundant, and the discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sijie Mai , Ying Zeng , Haifeng Hu

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in exploiting auxiliary information for recommendation tasks. However, graphs constructed using meta-paths in HGNNs are usually too dense and contain a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Lei Sang , Yu Wang , Yiwen Zhang

The substantial modality-induced variations in radiometric, texture, and structural characteristics pose significant challenges for the accurate registration of multimodal images. While supervised deep learning methods have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Xiaochen Wei , Weiwei Guo , Wenxian Yu

Multi-view representation learning has developed rapidly over the past decades and has been applied in many fields. However, most previous works assumed that each view is complete and aligned. This leads to an inevitable deterioration in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Jie Wen , Yao Zhao

In long structured document retrieval, existing methods typically fine-tune pre-trained language models (PLMs) using contrastive learning on datasets lacking explicit structural information. This practice suffers from two critical issues:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinhao Huang , Zhibo Ren , Yipeng Yu , Ying Zhou , Zulong Chen , Zeyi Wen

Contrastive learning has achieved great success in self-supervised visual representation learning, but existing approaches mostly ignored spatial information which is often crucial for visual representation. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xinyue Huo , Lingxi Xie , Longhui Wei , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hao Li , Zijie Yang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Human action recognition (HAR) with multi-modal inputs (RGB-D, skeleton, point cloud) can achieve high accuracy but typically relies on large labeled datasets and degrades sharply when sensors fail or are noisy. We present Robust…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Hasan Akgul , Mari Eplik , Javier Rojas , Akira Yamamoto , Rajesh Kumar , Maya Singh

We introduce Correspondence-Oriented Imitation Learning (COIL), a conditional policy learning framework for visuomotor control with a flexible task representation in 3D. At the core of our approach, each task is defined by the intended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yunhao Cao , Zubin Bhaumik , Jessie Jia , Xingyi He , Kuan Fang

Multilingual information retrieval (IR) is challenging since annotated training data is costly to obtain in many languages. We present an effective method to train multilingual IR systems when only English IR training data and some parallel…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xiyang Hu , Xinchi Chen , Peng Qi , Deguang Kong , Kunlun Liu , William Yang Wang , Zhiheng Huang

Multimodal information retrieval (MIR) faces inherent challenges due to the heterogeneity of data sources and the complexity of cross-modal alignment. While previous studies have identified modal gaps in feature spaces, a systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Fanheng Kong , Jingyuan Zhang , Yahui Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Yu Tian , Victoria W. , Fuzheng Zhang , Guorui Zhou

Multimodal machine learning, mimicking the human brain's ability to integrate various modalities has seen rapid growth. Most previous multimodal models are trained on perfectly paired multimodal input to reach optimal performance. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ronghao Lin , Qiaolin He , Sijie Mai , Ying Zeng , Aolin Xiong , Li Huang , Yap-Peng Tan , Haifeng Hu