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Domain generalization (DG) focuses on transferring domain-invariant knowledge from multiple source domains (available at train time) to an, a priori, unseen target domain(s). This requires a class to be expressed in multiple domains for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kimathi Kaai , Saad Hossain , Sirisha Rambhatla

Multimodal learning leverages the integration of diverse data modalities to enhance performance in complex tasks. Yet, it frequently encounters incomplete or redundant modality data in real-world scenarios. This paper presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Richeng Zhou , Xuelin Zhang , Liyuan Liu

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

In this paper, we study a novel problem in egocentric action recognition, which we term as "Multimodal Generalization" (MMG). MMG aims to study how systems can generalize when data from certain modalities is limited or even completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Xinyu Gong , Sreyas Mohan , Naina Dhingra , Jean-Charles Bazin , Yilei Li , Zhangyang Wang , Rakesh Ranjan

Multimodal learning has increasingly become a focal point in research, primarily due to its ability to integrate complementary information from diverse modalities. Nevertheless, modality imbalance, stemming from factors such as insufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Rongrong Xie , Guido Sanguinetti

Human beings can quickly adapt to environmental changes by leveraging learning experience. However, adapting deep neural networks to dynamic environments by machine learning algorithms remains a challenge. To better understand this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Shixiang Tang , Peng Su , Dapeng Chen , Wanli Ouyang

Accurate prediction with multimodal data-encompassing tabular, textual, and visual inputs or outputs-is fundamental to advancing analytics in diverse application domains. Traditional approaches often struggle to integrate heterogeneous data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-11 Xinyu Tian , Xiaotong Shen

A major obstacle to achieving global convergence in distributed and federated learning is the misalignment of gradients across clients, or mini-batches due to heterogeneity and stochasticity of the distributed data. In this work, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yatin Dandi , Luis Barba , Martin Jaggi

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to build general-purpose vision systems by training a single network to perform multiple tasks jointly. While promising, its potential is often hindered by "unbalanced optimization", where task interference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yihang Guo , Tianyuan Yu , Liang Bai , Yanming Guo , Yirun Ruan , William Li , Weishi Zheng

In unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), where models are trained on source data (e.g., synthetic) and adapted to target data (e.g., real-world) without target annotations, addressing the challenge of significant class imbalance remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Roberto Alcover-Couso , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Juan C. SanMiguel , Jesus Bescós

While the field of multi-modal learning keeps growing fast, the deficiency of the standard joint training paradigm has become clear through recent studies. They attribute the sub-optimal performance of the jointly trained model to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Hong Li , Xingyu Li , Pengbo Hu , Yinuo Lei , Chunxiao Li , Yi Zhou

Multimodal semantic segmentation integrates complementary information from diverse sensors for remote sensing Earth observation. However, practical systems often encounter missing modalities due to sensor failures or incomplete coverage,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Lekang Wen , Liang Liao , Jing Xiao , Mi Wang

Domain generalization (DG) aims to maintain performance under domain shift, which in computer vision appears primarily as stylistic variations that cause models to overfit to domain-specific appearance cues rather than class semantics. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Antonios Kritikos , Nikolaos Spanos , Athanasios Voulodimos

Multimodal learning has gained attention for its capacity to integrate information from different modalities. However, it is often hindered by the multimodal imbalance problem, where certain modality dominates while others remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Shaoxuan Xu , Menglu Cui , Chengxiang Huang , Hongfa Wang , Di Hu

A major challenge in training large-scale machine learning models is configuring the training process to maximize model performance, i.e., finding the best training setup from a vast design space. In this work, we unlock a gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-19 Logan Engstrom , Andrew Ilyas , Benjamin Chen , Axel Feldmann , William Moses , Aleksander Madry

Domain generalization (DG) is a prevalent problem in real-world applications, which aims to train well-generalized models for unseen target domains by utilizing several source domains. Since domain labels, i.e., which domain each data point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yunze Tong , Junkun Yuan , Min Zhang , Didi Zhu , Keli Zhang , Fei Wu , Kun Kuang

The distribution shifts between training and test data typically undermine the performance of models. In recent years, lots of work pays attention to domain generalization (DG) where distribution shifts exist, and target data are unseen.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Wang Lu , Jindong Wang , Yidong Wang , Xing Xie

Inspired by the remarkable success of large neural networks, there has been significant interest in understanding the generalization performance of over-parameterized models. Substantial efforts have been invested in characterizing how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Haoyuan Sun , Khashayar Gatmiry , Kwangjun Ahn , Navid Azizan

The task of open-set domain generalization (OSDG) involves recognizing novel classes within unseen domains, which becomes more challenging with multiple modalities as input. Existing works have only addressed unimodal OSDG within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hao Dong , Eleni Chatzi , Olga Fink

Domain generalization (DG) seeks to develop models that generalize well to unseen target domains, addressing the prevalent issue of distribution shifts in real-world applications. One line of research in DG focuses on aligning domain-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuen Chen , Haozhe Si , Guojun Zhang , Han Zhao