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48 results for Multimodal Understanding

Humor is a unique and creative communicative behavior displayed during social interactions. It is produced in a multimodal manner, through the usage of words (text), gestures (vision) and prosodic cues (acoustic). Understanding humor from these three modalities falls within boundaries of multimodal language; a recent r…

2019-04-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved text-to-image and multimodal understanding through adaptive generation order optimization.

problem Determining optimal generation sequences in text-to-image synthesis and multimodal understanding.
method Introduced a learnable control module trained via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to determine the generation order.
result Learning the control block substantially improves text-to-image alignment and multimodal understanding in DLMs.

Learning multimodal representations is a fundamentally complex research problem due to the presence of multiple heterogeneous sources of information. Although the presence of multiple modalities provides additional valuable information, there are two key challenges to address when learning from multimodal data: 1) mode…

2018-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Modified PCA algorithm with continual learning preserves features of previous modes for multimode process monitoring.

problem Catastrophic forgetting of previous modes in monitoring models for successive modes.
method Modified PCA algorithm with elastic weight consolidation (EWC) to preserve features of previous modes.
result PCA-EWC algorithm effectively monitors multimode processes without performance decrease.

Paper proposes multimodal contrastive learning for EHR data.

problem Separate treatment of structured and unstructured EHR data.
method Proposes a multimodal feature embedding generative model and a multimodal contrastive loss.
result Multimodal learning yields better feature representation than single-modality learning.

Unified model integrates text and time series for financial forecasting.

problem Challenges in integrating complementary modalities for improved forecasting.
method Modality-specific experts and cross-modal alignment framework.
result State-of-the-art performance on financial forecasting task.

We propose a novel method, Modality-based Redundancy Reduction Fusion (MRRF), for understanding and modulating the relative contribution of each modality in multimodal inference tasks. This is achieved by obtaining an (M+1)(M+1)-way tensor to consider the high-order relationships between MM modalities and the output laye…

2018-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

InVA models image outcomes from multiple modalities, outperforming standard VAEs.

problem Understanding relationships across multiple imaging modalities in neuroimaging.
method Integrative Variational Autoencoder (InVA) framework for image-on-image regression.
result InVA accurately predicts PET scans from structural MRI, outperforming conventional models.

Bayesian approach for handling incomplete clinical data.

problem Challenges in machine learning with multimodal, incomplete clinical data.
method Generative and discriminative learning, semi-supervised strategy, imputation of missing views.
result Automatic imputation of missing views and robust inference across different data sources.

This paper investigates uncertainty calibration in multimodal large language models.

problem Challenges in properly calibrating uncertainty in multimodal large language models.
method Investigation of representative MLLMs across various scenarios, including visual fine-tuning and multimodal training.
result MLLMs tend to give answers rather than admit uncertainty, but this self-assessment improves with proper prompt adjustments.

Filtering data with a pre-trained model improves multimodal contrastive learning performance.

problem Improving the quality of internet-scale multimodal datasets.
method Characterized the performance of filtered contrastive learning under a bimodal data generation model.
result Data filtering using a pre-trained model reduces contrastive learning error by a factor of η\sqrt{η} in the large ηη regime.

Current high-throughput data acquisition technologies probe dynamical systems with different imaging modalities, generating massive data sets at different spatial and temporal resolutions posing challenging problems in multimodal data fusion. A case in point is the attempt to parse out the brain structures and networks…

2015-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study creates a multimodal learning framework for CVD risk prediction.

problem Predicting cardiovascular disease risk in diverse populations.
method Combines cross modal transformers, graph neural networks, and causal representation learning.
result Model predicts personalized CVD risk with causal invariance across subpopulations.

DAM improves cryptocurrency trend forecasting using multimodal data.

problem Simplistic merging of sentiment data in cryptocurrency trend forecasting.
method Dual Attention Mechanism (DAM) integrating financial metrics and sentiment analysis.
result DAM outperforms conventional models by up to 20% in prediction accuracy.

New algorithm learns switching dynamics from multiple neural signals.

problem Learning accurate switching dynamical system models from multimodal neural data.
method Unsupervised learning algorithm for multiscale switching dynamical system models.
result Switching multiscale dynamical system models outperform single-scale models in behavior decoding.

Paper investigates multimodal contrastive learning and incorporates unpaired data.

problem Improving feature learning ability of multimodal models under noisy data.
method Initiates investigation of nonlinear loss functions for multimodal contrastive learning, analyzes performance, proposes new loss incorporating unpaired data.
result MMCL can outperform unimodal contrastive learning and robustly handle noisy data.

FinZero improves financial time series forecasting accuracy with multimodal modeling.

problem Lack of interpretability, uncertainty, and scalability in financial time series forecasting.
method Developed a multimodal pre-trained model FinZero using UARPO method for reasoning, prediction, and uncertainty analysis.
result FinZero achieves an approximate 13.48% improvement in prediction accuracy over GPT-4o in high-confidence group.

Paper analyzes biases in video QA datasets, showing models can answer 37-48% questions correctly without multimodal context.

problem Question answering biases in video QA datasets can lead to model overfitting and poor generalization.
method Analyzed popular video question answering datasets, conducted ablation studies on biases from annotators and question types.
result Pretrained language models can answer 37-48% questions correctly without multimodal context, far exceeding random guess baseline.

This work explores how XAI methods can visualize the diversity of feature representations in Bayesian Neural Networks.

problem Explaining the diversity of feature representations learned by Bayesian Neural Networks.
method Application of global XAI methods to visualize and quantify the diversity of feature representations.
result The diversity of learned feature representations correlates with uncertainty estimates and network width.

TAMA uses LMMs to detect and interpret anomalies in time series data with few labels.

problem Challenges in manual feature engineering and extensive labeled training data for TSAD.
method Leverages LMMs to convert time series into visual formats for few-shot in-context learning.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in TSAD tasks.

Multimodal fusion is considered a key step in multimodal tasks such as sentiment analysis, emotion detection, question answering, and others. Most of the recent work on multimodal fusion does not guarantee the fidelity of the multimodal representation with respect to the unimodal representations. In this paper, we prop…

2019-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Multimodal research is an emerging field of artificial intelligence, and one of the main research problems in this field is multimodal fusion. The fusion of multimodal data is the process of integrating multiple unimodal representations into one compact multimodal representation. Previous research in this field has exp…

2018-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a contrastive framework for data-efficient multimodal learning.

problem Expensive training of multimodal generative models requiring related multimodal data.
method Contrastive framework for multimodal learning, distinguishing related from unrelated data.
result Data-efficient multimodal learning on challenging datasets for various VAE models.

Plug-and-play multimodal controller improves class-conditional image generation.

problem Generating class-conditional images from user-specified labels.
method Introduces a `multimodal controller` to generate multimodal data without additional learning parameters.
result Multimodal controlled generative models produce higher quality class-conditional images and novel modalities.

Improved sentiment analysis with multimodal data.

problem Cross-modal sentiment analysis in social media, customer service, and video blogs.
method Gated mechanism for attention-based learning of cross-modal interactions, with experiments on CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI datasets.
result 1.6% and 1.34% absolute improvement over state-of-the-art.

Computational modeling of human multimodal language is an emerging research area in natural language processing spanning the language, visual and acoustic modalities. Comprehending multimodal language requires modeling not only the interactions within each modality (intra-modal interactions) but more importantly the in…

2018-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Self-supervised bidirectional transformer models such as BERT have led to dramatic improvements in a wide variety of textual classification tasks. The modern digital world is increasingly multimodal, however, and textual information is often accompanied by other modalities such as images. We introduce a supervised mult…

2019-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Study analyzes bias interactions in multimodal models using simulation-based methods.

problem Analyzing dynamic bias interactions in multimodal models to ensure fairness and equity.
method Simulation-based heuristic approach to compute bias scores for text-only, image-only, and multimodal embeddings.
result Multimodal bias interactions can be amplification, mitigation, or neutral, with text bias often dominant.

The complex world around us is inherently multimodal and sequential (continuous). Information is scattered across different modalities and requires multiple continuous sensors to be captured. As machine learning leaps towards better generalization to real world, multimodal sequential learning becomes a fundamental rese…

2019-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper strengthens the computational separation between multimodal and unimodal learning, showing unimodal learning is hard on typical instances.

problem Theoretical justification for empirical success of multimodal machine learning.
method Introduced a stronger average-case computational separation between unimodal and multimodal learning.
result For typical instances, unimodal learning is computationally hard, while multimodal learning is easy.

New results show contrastive learning can recover shared factors in multimodal data.

problem Understanding when contrastive learning can recover shared latent factors in multimodal data.
method New identifiability results for multimodal contrastive learning, distinguishing between multi-view and multimodal settings.
result Contrastive learning can block-identify shared latent factors in multimodal data, even with dependencies.