CAMul forecasts with calibrated and accurate multi-view time-series data.
problem Combining diverse data sources for reliable time-series forecasting.
method CAMul integrates multi-modal data views dynamically, assigning importance based on context.
result CAMul outperforms state-of-the-art models by 25% in accuracy and calibration.
Pipeline combines ETF preprocessing with tabular model for cross-modal inference.
problem Transferability of tabular models across different modalities.
method Fixed comparison object, ETF preprocessing, in-context inference.
result Pipeline is broadly competitive, runs faster, and produces well-calibrated probabilities.
The paper reviews and extends calibration concepts for classification and regression.
problem Formalizing compatibility between probabilistic predictions and outcomes.
method Review and extension of existing calibration concepts, introduction of new concepts.
result Hierarchical relations between calibration concepts for various data types.
AECF improves multimodal inference robustness and calibration.
problem Robustness and calibration issues in multimodal systems with missing inputs.
method Adaptive Entropy-Gated Contrastive Fusion (AECF) layer.
result Improves masked-input mAP by +18 pp at a 50% drop rate.
The paper addresses calibration in label ranking, a structured prediction task.
problem Calibration in label ranking is not well understood and often poorly calibrated.
method Formalized calibration for label ranking, developed a hierarchy of notions, and empirically evaluated models.
result Popular label ranking models are often poorly calibrated, with differences between sub-ranking and top-k metrics.
Integrates neural encoders into GLMMs for multimodal data analysis.
problem Scalable Bayesian inference for GLMMs assumes low-dimensional tabular predictors and does not handle high-dimensional modalities.
method Jointly learns modality-specific neural encoders with GLMM objective, performs variance-corrected stochastic-gradient MCMC.
result Preserves interpretable fixed and random effects while scaling to large longitudinal datasets.
New PAC-Bayes meta-learning method improves few-shot learning accuracy and calibration.
problem Few-shot learning with limited data.
method PAC-Bayes framework extended to meta-learning, estimating task-specific posteriors.
result State-of-the-art calibration and classification results on benchmarks.
Efficient approach improves prediction calibration for domain shifts.
problem Improving uncertainty-aware predictions for domain shifts.
method Combining entropy-encouraging and adversarial calibration losses.
result Substantially outperforms existing approaches in domain drift calibration.
We introduce a new, rigorously-formulated Bayesian meta-learning algorithm that learns a probability distribution of model parameter prior for few-shot learning. The proposed algorithm employs a gradient-based variational inference to infer the posterior of model parameters to a new task. Our algorithm can be applied t…
MCP extends conformal prediction to vector-valued score functions without data splitting.
problem Fixed prediction set shapes in scalar score functions limit coverage guarantees.
method MCP uses a single optimization problem for prediction set design and calibration, eliminating data splitting.
result RemMCP and RelMCP achieve target coverage with smaller or comparable prediction set sizes, reducing variance.
Bayesian approach reduces FL communication cost by one-shot.
problem High communication cost in optimization-based FL for high-dimensional models.
method Bayesian pseudocoresets and function-space inference for one-shot FL.
result Achieves prediction performance competitive to state-of-the-art with up to 2 orders of magnitude reduction in communication cost.
Study improves CNN medical image segmentation accuracy and reliability.
problem Over-confident predictions and silent failures in out-of-distribution data.
method Multi-task learning and spectral analysis of CNN feature maps.
result Joint multi-task learning models outperform dedicated models and detect OOD data more accurately.
Unified predictive uncertainty disentangled using deep split ensembles.
problem Understanding and quantifying uncertainty in NNs for real-world applications.
method Deep split ensemble approach using multivariate Gaussian mixture model.
result Inherently well-calibrated models with high flexibility to group features.
Better uncertainty estimates for neural networks using Gaussian process priors.
problem Poor uncertainty estimates in neural networks, especially on out-of-distribution data.
method Characterize the function-space prior of an ensemble of infinitely-wide neural networks as a Gaussian process and use it to build a probabilistic model.
result The approach improves calibration of neural networks, especially under distributional shift.
Adaptive anchor methods improve multi-modal learning by balancing intra-modal and inter-modal information.
problem Fixed anchor methods limit multi-modal learning by over-reliance on a single modality and inadequate cross-modal correlation.
method Adaptive anchor methods using centroid-based anchors from all modalities.
result Adaptive anchor methods like CentroBind consistently outperform fixed anchor methods across various datasets.
KD-Net transfers knowledge from multi-modal to mono-modal segmentation networks.
problem Limited acquisition of multiple imaging modalities in clinical settings.
method Generalized distillation framework adapted for mono-modal networks.
result The student network outperforms baseline mono-modal networks in brain tumor segmentation.
MHVAE learns cross-modality inference inspired by human cognition.
problem Cross-modality inference in multimodal data.
method Hierarchical multimodal generative model with modality-specific and joint-modality distributions.
result MHVAE performs on par with state-of-the-art models on multimodal datasets.
The paper analyzes and proposes an algorithm for multi-modal nonlinear embeddings with theoretical performance bounds.
problem Generalizability of multi-modal nonlinear embeddings to unseen data.
method Theoretical analysis and a multi-modal nonlinear representation learning algorithm motivated by performance bounds.
result The proposed algorithm yields promising performance in multi-modal image classification and cross-modal image-text retrieval applications.
COBRA reduces modality gap in cross-modal tasks.
problem Joint embedding spaces fail to sufficiently reduce modality gap in multi-modal tasks.
method COBRA trains image and text modalities in a joint fashion using Contrastive Predictive Coding and Noise Contrastive Estimation.
result COBRA significantly reduces the modality gap and generates robust joint-embedding space.
Proposes a novel network for CTR prediction by learning modality-specific and modality-invariant representations.
problem Learning good representation of items from multimodal features in E-commerce is challenging due to redundant information across modalities.
method Introduces a Multimodal Adversarial Representation Network (MARN) that calculates modality-specific weights and learns modality-invariant representations.
result Consistently achieves remarkable improvements over state-of-the-art methods in CTR prediction.
Cancer is one of the leading cause of death, worldwide. Many believe that genomic data will enable us to better predict the survival time of these patients, which will lead to better, more personalized treatment options and patient care. As standard survival prediction models have a hard time coping with the high-dimen…
Combining complementary information from multiple modalities is intuitively appealing for improving the performance of learning-based approaches. However, it is challenging to fully leverage different modalities due to practical challenges such as varying levels of noise and conflicts between modalities. Existing metho…
We investigate deep generative models that can exchange multiple modalities bi-directionally, e.g., generating images from corresponding texts and vice versa. Recently, some studies handle multiple modalities on deep generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs). However, these models typically assume that…
Improves video search by balancing text and visual modalities.
problem Modality imbalance in video search models, focusing mainly on text matching.
method Proposes MBVR with MS samples and DM to balance modalities.
result Empirically shows significant improvement in modality balance and search effectiveness.
Multimodal sentiment analysis is a core research area that studies speaker sentiment expressed from the language, visual, and acoustic modalities. The central challenge in multimodal learning involves inferring joint representations that can process and relate information from these modalities. However, existing work l…
MoCA uses a novel autoencoder to analyze multi-modal health data.
problem Challenges in analyzing continuous multi-modal health data from wearable devices.
method Proposes MoCA, a self-supervised learning framework combining transformer and masked autoencoder methods.
result Demonstrates strong performance boosts across reconstruction and classification tasks.
We explore training an automatic modality tagger. Modality is the attitude that a speaker might have toward an event or state. One of the main hurdles for training a linguistic tagger is gathering training data. This is particularly problematic for training a tagger for modality because modality triggers are sparse for…
Obtaining common representations from different modalities is important in that they are interchangeable with each other in a classification problem. For example, we can train a classifier on image features in the common representations and apply it to the testing of the text features in the representations. Existing m…
Framework for handling long-tailed multi-modal data.
problem Class imbalance and long-tailed distributions in multi-modal data.
method Multi-expert architecture with modality-specific networks and dynamic fusion weights.
result Framework outperforms existing methods in long-tailed, class-imbalanced scenarios.
TAP transfers knowledge from unlabeled data to improve cross-modal learning.
problem Improving supervised learning performance using unlabeled data from a different modality.
method Probabilistic approach for missing information estimation, kernel regression, cross-attention module, TAP neural network.
result TAP significantly improves generalization across different domains and neural network architectures.
Learning generative models that span multiple data modalities, such as vision and language, is often motivated by the desire to learn more useful, generalisable representations that faithfully capture common underlying factors between the modalities. In this work, we characterise successful learning of such models as t…
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)-way tensor to consider the high-order relationships between M modalities and the output laye…
DNN-based cross-modal retrieval has become a research hotspot, by which users can search results across various modalities like image and text. However, existing methods mainly focus on the pairwise correlation and reconstruction error of labeled data. They ignore the semantically similar and dissimilar constraints bet…
This work improves multi-modal generative models by using permutation-invariant neural networks.
problem Improving multi-modal generative models with tighter variational objectives.
method Developed more flexible aggregation schemes based on permutation-invariant neural networks.
result Our variational objective and flexible aggregation models can better approximate the true joint distribution.
A framework for uncertainty-aware multimodal learning using conformal Shapley intervals.
problem Uncertainty and modality level importance in multimodal learning.
method Introduces conformal Shapley intervals to quantify modality level importance and uncertainty.
result Demonstrates meaningful uncertainty quantification and strong predictive performance.
MAESTRO improves multimodal learning for dynamic time series with adaptive attention and robustness.
problem Challenges in multimodal learning, especially in healthcare and daily living.
method Dynamic intra- and cross-modal interactions, symbolic tokenization, adaptive attention budgeting, sparse cross-modal attention, MoE mechanism.
result Average relative improvements of 4% and 8% over existing multimodal and multivariate approaches, respectively, under complete observations.
Develops multi-modal neural network models for improved prediction and uncertainty quantification.
problem Improving prediction accuracy and uncertainty quantification for multi-modal data.
method Multi-modal Bayesian neural network models with conjugate last-layer estimation using SVI.
result Improved prediction accuracy and uncertainty quantification compared to uni-modal models.
This paper studies the nonparametric modal regression problem systematically from a statistical learning view. Originally motivated by pursuing a theoretical understanding of the maximum correntropy criterion based regression (MCCR), our study reveals that MCCR with a tending-to-zero scale parameter is essentially moda…
In this study, we investigated multi-modal approaches using images, descriptions, and titles to categorize e-commerce products on Amazon. Specifically, we examined late fusion models, where the modalities are fused at the decision level. Products were each assigned multiple labels, and the hierarchy in the labels were …
Symile learns joint representations across multiple modalities, outperforming pairwise CLIP.
problem Pairwise contrastive learning fails to capture joint information between multiple modalities.
method Symile uses a flexible, architecture-agnostic objective to learn modality-specific representations by deriving a lower bound on total correlation.
result Symile outperforms pairwise CLIP on cross-modal classification and retrieval across various datasets.
With the emergence of diverse data collection techniques, objects in real applications can be represented as multi-modal features. What's more, objects may have multiple semantic meanings. Multi-modal and Multi-label (MMML) problem becomes a universal phenomenon. The quality of data collected from different channels ar…
ROME improves density estimation for multi-modal, non-normal data.
problem Robust multi-modal density estimation in non-normal, highly correlated distributions.
method ROME uses clustering to segment multi-modal data into uni-modal clusters, then combines KDE estimates for each cluster.
result ROME outperforms state-of-the-art methods and is more robust to various distributions.
Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in data mining field with many real-world applications. A vast majority of existing anomaly detection methods predominately focused on data collected from a single source. In real-world applications, instances often have multiple types of features, such as images (ID photos, f…
ESE-FN improves elderly activity recognition accuracy.
problem Recognizing individual actions and human-object interactions in elderly activities.
method Exploits multi-modal features from RGB videos and skeleton sequences using ESE attentions and a new Multi-modal Loss.
result ESE-FN achieves best accuracy on ETRI-Activity3D dataset.
We investigate deep generative models that can exchange multiple modalities bi-directionally, e.g., generating images from corresponding texts and vice versa. A major approach to achieve this objective is to train a model that integrates all the information of different modalities into a joint representation and then t…
New model learns from missing modalities and class labels.
problem Conflict between learning joint representations and modalities in multi-modal data.
method Introduces a novel conditional multi-modal discriminative model using an informative prior distribution and a likelihood-free objective function.
result Our model achieves state-of-the-art results in downstream classification, acoustic inversion, and image and annotation generation.
Hashing has been widely adopted for large-scale data retrieval in many domains, due to its low storage cost and high retrieval speed. Existing cross-modal hashing methods optimistically assume that the correspondence between training samples across modalities are readily available. This assumption is unrealistic in pra…
Proposes a parametric modal regression method using the implicit function theorem.
problem Finding conditional modes for multi-modal conditional distributions.
method Uses the implicit function theorem to develop an objective function for learning a joint function over inputs and targets.
result Empirically demonstrates scalability and effectiveness in learning multi-valued functions and high-dimensional inputs.