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The world provides us with data of multiple modalities. Intuitively, models fusing data from different modalities outperform their uni-modal counterparts, since more information is aggregated. Recently, joining the success of deep learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yu Huang , Chenzhuang Du , Zihui Xue , Xuanyao Chen , Hang Zhao , Longbo Huang

Multimodal learning typically relies on the assumption that all modalities are fully available during both the training and inference phases. However, in real-world scenarios, consistently acquiring complete multimodal data presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Donggeun Kim , Taesup Kim

Multimodal learning often suffers from modality imbalance, where modalities that converge faster dominate optimization while others remain undertrained. Existing approaches typically mitigate this issue by strengthening the weak modality or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoyu Ma , Weijie Zhang , Yuanhao Gao , Han Miao , Yongjian Deng , Hao Chen

Multimodal learning is defined as learning over multiple heterogeneous input modalities such as video, audio, and text. In this work, we are concerned with understanding how models behave as the type of modalities differ between training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Brandon McKinzie , Joseph Cheng , Vaishaal Shankar , Yinfei Yang , Jonathon Shlens , Alexander Toshev

The convergence of cross-modal adversarial learning and physics-driven methods represents a cutting-edge direction for tackling challenges in complex multi-modal tasks and scientific computing. This review focuses on systematically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hana Satou , Alan Mitkiy

Multi-Modal Learning (MML) integrates information from diverse modalities to improve predictive accuracy. While existing optimization strategies have made significant strides by mitigating gradient direction conflicts, we revisit MML from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Peizheng Guo , Jingyao Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Jiahuan Zhou , Changwen Zheng , Gang Hua

Multimodal learning often grapples with the challenge of low-quality data, which predominantly manifests as two facets: modality imbalance and noisy corruption. While these issues are often studied in isolation, we argue that they share a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Xun Jiang , Yufan Gu , Disen Hu , Yuqing Hou , Yazhou Yao , Fumin Shen , Heng Tao Shen , Xing Xu

Multimodal learning, which aims to understand and analyze information from multiple modalities, has achieved substantial progress in the supervised regime in recent years. However, the heavy dependence on data paired with expensive human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Yongshuo Zong , Oisin Mac Aodha , Timothy Hospedales

Multimodal learning has become a pivotal approach in developing robust learning models with applications spanning multimedia, robotics, large language models, and healthcare. The efficiency of multimodal systems is a critical concern, given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhe Gao , Jian Huang , Ting Li , Xueqin Wang

The heterogeneity-gap between different modalities brings a significant challenge to multimedia information retrieval. Some studies formalize the cross-modal retrieval tasks as a ranking problem and learn a shared multi-modal embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Minnan Luo , Xiaojun Chang , Zhihui Li , Liqiang Nie , Alexander G. Hauptmann , Qinghua Zheng

Multimodal learning aims to imitate human beings to acquire complementary information from multiple modalities for various downstream tasks. However, traditional aggregation-based multimodal fusion methods ignore the inter-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Heqing Zou , Meng Shen , Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

This paper explores a novel multi-modal alternating learning paradigm pursuing a reconciliation between the exploitation of uni-modal features and the exploration of cross-modal interactions. This is motivated by the fact that current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Cong Hua , Qianqian Xu , Shilong Bao , Zhiyong Yang , Qingming Huang

Multimodal learning holds promise for richer information extraction by capturing dependencies across data sources. Yet, current training methods often underperform due to modality competition, a phenomenon where modalities contend for…

Decentralized learning is widely employed for collaboratively training models using distributed data over wireless networks. Existing decentralized learning methods primarily focus on training single-modal networks. For the decentralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Benshun Yin , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao

We consider the problem of distributionally robust multimodal machine learning. Existing approaches often rely on merging modalities on the feature level (early fusion) or heuristic uncertainty modeling, which downplays modality-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Peilin Yang , Yu Ma

During multimodal model training and testing, certain data modalities may be absent due to sensor limitations, cost constraints, privacy concerns, or data loss, negatively affecting performance. Multimodal learning techniques designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Renjie Wu , Hu Wang , Hsiang-Ting Chen , Gustavo Carneiro

Multimodal learning has seen great success mining data features from multiple modalities with remarkable model performance improvement. Meanwhile, federated learning (FL) addresses the data sharing problem, enabling privacy-preserved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Rongyu Zhang , Xiaowei Chi , Guiliang Liu , Wenyi Zhang , Yuan Du , Fangxin Wang

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

Developing effective multimodal fusion approaches has become increasingly essential in many real-world scenarios, such as health care and finance. The key challenge is how to preserve the feature expressiveness in each modality while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tsai Hor Chan , Feng Wu , Yihang Chen , Guosheng Yin , Lequan Yu

Multimodal learning enables neural networks to integrate information from heterogeneous sources, but active learning in this setting faces distinct challenges. These include missing modalities, differences in modality difficulty, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Dustin Eisenhardt , Yunhee Jeong , Florian Buettner