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Language-guided grasping has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robots to identify and manipulate target objects through natural language instructions, yet it remains highly challenging in cluttered or occluded scenes. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rui Tang , Guankun Wang , Long Bai , Huxin Gao , Jiewen Lai , Chi Kit Ng , Jiazheng Wang , Fan Zhang , Hongliang Ren

Contrastive learning has emerged as a pivotal framework for representation learning, underpinning advances in both unimodal and bimodal applications like SimCLR and CLIP. To address fundamental limitations like large batch size dependency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ajay Jagannath , Aayush Upadhyay , Anant Mehta

Multimodal Contrastive Learning (MCL) advances in aligning different modalities and generating multimodal representations in a joint space. By leveraging contrastive learning across diverse modalities, large-scale multimodal data enhances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations (e.g., node dropping, edge perturbation, attribute masking)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Shihao Ji , Esra Akbas

Existing methods for self-supervised representation learning of geospatial regions and map entities rely extensively on the design of pretext tasks, often involving augmentations or heuristic sampling of positive and negative pairs based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Theodor Lundqvist , Ludvig Delvret

Multimodal contrastive learning is a methodology for linking different data modalities; the canonical example is linking image and text data. The methodology is typically framed as the identification of a set of encoders, one for each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Ricardo Baptista , Andrew M. Stuart , Son Tran

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

Recent strides in multimodal model development have ignited a paradigm shift in the realm of text-to-image generation. Among these advancements, CLIP stands out as a remarkable achievement which is a sophisticated autoencoder adept at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Abdul Aziz A. B , A. B Abdul Rahim

We present UniBind, a flexible and efficient approach that learns a unified representation space for seven diverse modalities -- images, text, audio, point cloud, thermal, video, and event data. Existing works, eg., ImageBind, treat the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Xu Zheng , Jiazhou Zhou , Lin Wang

Medical image understanding plays a crucial role in enabling automated diagnosis and data-driven clinical decision support. However, its progress is impeded by two primary challenges: the limited availability of high-quality annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tianchen Fang , Guiru Liu

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

Retrieving relevant multimedia content is one of the main problems in a world that is increasingly data-driven. With the proliferation of drones, high quality aerial footage is now available to a wide audience for the first time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Fabian Deuser , Konrad Habel , Martin Werner , Norbert Oswald

Recently, learning urban region representations utilizing multi-modal data (information views) has become increasingly popular, for deep understanding of the distributions of various socioeconomic features in cities. However, previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zechen Li , Weiming Huang , Kai Zhao , Min Yang , Yongshun Gong , Meng Chen

Multi-modal contrastive representation (MCR) of more than three modalities is critical in multi-modal learning. Although recent methods showcase impressive achievements, the high dependence on large-scale, high-quality paired data and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zehan Wang , Ziang Zhang , Luping Liu , Yang Zhao , Haifeng Huang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Cross-modal retrieval is the task of retrieving samples of a given modality by using queries of a different one. Due to the wide range of practical applications, the problem has been mainly focused on the vision and language case, e.g. text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jorge Sánchez , Rodrigo Laguna

Human perception integrates multiple modalities, such as vision, hearing, and language, into a unified understanding of the surrounding reality. While recent multimodal models have achieved significant progress by aligning pairs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Giordano Cicchetti , Eleonora Grassucci , Luigi Sigillo , Danilo Comminiello

The electronic map plays a crucial role in geographic information systems, serving various urban managerial scenarios and daily life services. Developing effective Map Entity Representation Learning (MERL) methods is crucial to extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Jiawei Jiang , Yifan Yang , Jingyuan Wang , Junjie Wu

Building cross-modal applications is challenging due to limited paired multi-modal data. Recent works have shown that leveraging a pre-trained multi-modal contrastive representation space enables cross-modal tasks to be learned from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yuhui Zhang , Elaine Sui , Serena Yeung-Levy

Language-supervised vision models have recently attracted great attention in computer vision. A common approach to build such models is to use contrastive learning on paired data across the two modalities, as exemplified by Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Ryumei Nakada , Halil Ibrahim Gulluk , Zhun Deng , Wenlong Ji , James Zou , Linjun Zhang

Low back pain affects millions worldwide, driving the need for robust diagnostic models that can jointly analyze complex medical images and accompanying text reports. We present LumbarCLIP, a novel multimodal framework that leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Thanh Binh Le , Hoang Nhat Khang Vo , Tan-Ha Mai , Trong Nhan Phan