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Multimodal learning integrates information from different modalities to enhance model performance, yet it often suffers from modality imbalance, where dominant modalities overshadow weaker ones during joint optimization. This paper reveals…

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Multimodal learning (MML) is significantly constrained by modality imbalance, leading to suboptimal performance in practice. While existing approaches primarily focus on balancing the learning of different modalities to address this issue,…

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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

Multimodal learning systems often encounter challenges related to modality imbalance, where a dominant modality may overshadow others, thereby hindering the learning of weak modalities. Conventional approaches often force weak modalities to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Baoquan Gong , Xiyuan Gao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Bing Cao

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

Multimodal learning has significantly enhanced machine learning performance but still faces numerous challenges and limitations. Imbalanced multimodal learning is one of the problems extensively studied in recent works and is typically…

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To overcome the imbalanced multimodal learning problem, where models prefer the training of specific modalities, existing methods propose to control the training of uni-modal encoders from different perspectives, taking the inter-modal…

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Learning from multiple modalities often suffers from imbalance, where information-rich modalities dominate optimization while weaker or partially missing modalities contribute less. This imbalance becomes severe in realistic settings with…

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The imbalance problem is widespread in the field of machine learning, which also exists in multimodal learning areas caused by the intrinsic discrepancy between modalities of samples. Recent works have attempted to solve the modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wenke Xia , Xu Zhao , Xincheng Pang , Changqing Zhang , Di Hu

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

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 learning (MML) aims to jointly exploit the common priors of different modalities to compensate for their inherent limitations. However, existing MML methods often optimize a uniform objective for different modalities, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yunfeng Fan , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Junxiao Wang , Song Guo

Different modalities hold considerable gaps in optimization trajectories, including speeds and paths, which lead to modality laziness and modality clash when jointly training multimodal models, resulting in insufficient and imbalanced…

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Contrastive loss has been increasingly used in learning representations from multiple modalities. In the limit, the nature of the contrastive loss encourages modalities to exactly match each other in the latent space. Yet it remains an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Qian Jiang , Changyou Chen , Han Zhao , Liqun Chen , Qing Ping , Son Dinh Tran , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi

Multimodal representation learning aims to construct a shared embedding space in which heterogeneous modalities are semantically aligned. Despite strong empirical results, InfoNCE-based objectives introduce inherent conflicts that yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Wenzhe Yin , Pan Zhou , Zehao Xiao , Jie Liu , Shujian Yu , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

Multi-modal methods establish comprehensive superiority over uni-modal methods. However, the imbalanced contributions of different modalities to task-dependent predictions constantly degrade the discriminative performance of canonical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yi Li , Fei Song , Changwen Zheng , Jiangmeng Li , Fuchun Sun , Hui Xiong

Multi-modal learning aims to enhance performance by unifying models from various modalities but often faces the "modality imbalance" problem in real data, leading to a bias towards dominant modalities and neglecting others, thereby limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yang Yang , Hongpeng Pan , Qing-Yuan Jiang , Yi Xu , Jinghui Tang

Multimodal learning faces two major challenges: modality imbalance and data noise, which significantly affect the robustness and generalization ability of models. Existing methods achieve modality balance by suppressing dominant modalities,…

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Supervised multi-modal learning involves mapping multiple modalities to a target label. Previous studies in this field have concentrated on capturing in isolation either the inter-modality dependencies (the relationships between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Divyam Madaan , Taro Makino , Sumit Chopra , Kyunghyun Cho

Multimodal learning integrates diverse modalities but suffers from modality imbalance, where dominant modalities suppress weaker ones due to inconsistent convergence rates. Existing methods predominantly rely on static modulation or…

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