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48 results for modal ceiling

Sampling more can make models more confident in wrong answers, not better.

problem The modal ceiling and correlation ceiling limit the benefit of increased sampling.
method Analyzes the trade-offs between sampling more and selecting the best answer.
result Extra sampling beyond a certain point does not improve model performance and can even degrade it.

Hawksmoor's ceiling and Pantheon dome cofferings are explained using conformal mappings and Mercator's projection.

problem Understanding the design of curved ceiling cofferings using mathematical methods.
method Differential geometry and Mercator's projection of curved surfaces onto planes.
result The cofferings are conformal images of square tilings, ensuring right-angle intersections and square coffers.

The study bounds exceptional surgeries for hyperbolic knots.

problem Identifying the range of slopes for exceptional surgeries.
method Analyzing meridional and non-meridional surgeries, and investigating the relationship between boundary slopes and exceptional surgeries.
result There are boundary slopes b1<b2b_1 < b_2 such that all non-trivial exceptional surgeries occur in the interval [b1,b2][b_1, b_2]. The integers in $[\ceil{b_1}, \floor{b_2}]$ are all exceptional surgeries.

We investigate the application of two heuristic methods, genetic algorithms and tabu/scatter search, to the optimisation of realistic portfolios. The model is based on the classical mean-variance approach, but enhanced with floor and ceiling constraints, cardinality constraints and nonlinear transaction costs which inc…

2005-01-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method detects hidden driving forces in systems with multiple observables.

problem Hidden driving forces in systems with multiple observables cannot be detected by scalar statistics.
method Cross-spectral witness for hidden nonequilibrium.
result Two simultaneously observed channels retain an off-diagonal cross-spectral sector inaccessible to scalar reductions.

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.

CEILS generates feasible counterfactual explanations by considering causal impacts.

problem Current counterfactual explanations lack feasibility and causal impact consideration.
method CEILS integrates causal reasoning into existing counterfactuals generation algorithms.
result CEILS provides feasible recommendations to achieve desired outcomes.

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.

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…

2018-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2016-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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…

2016-12-23abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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 ↗

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…

2017-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

A framework to quantify deployment risk in ML systems, especially for rare states.

problem Under-supported rare states in ML models lead to unreliable performance in unseen data.
method Blind-Spot Mass (B_n(tau)) using Good-Turing unseen-species estimation.
result Identifies and quantifies the risk of under-supported states in ML models.

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…

2017-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

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 …

2019-06-30abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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…

2019-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

New model recognizes emotions with missing modalities, improving accuracy.

problem Handling missing modalities in emotion recognition.
method Transformer-based architecture with cross-attention and self-attention mechanisms.
result Improvement of 37% in predicting arousal values and 30% in valence values compared to baseline.

Book reviews multimodal deep learning approaches and models.

problem Understanding and integrating different data types in deep learning.
method Examined current state-of-the-art approaches, discussed transformation and enhancement models, introduced simultaneous handling models, and covered other modalities.
result Unified architectures for handling multiple modalities in deep learning.

We present a simple agent-based model of a financial system composed of leveraged investors such as banks that invest in stocks and manage their risk using a Value-at-Risk constraint, based on historical observations of asset prices. The Value-at-Risk constraint implies that when perceived risk is low, leverage is high…

2014-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Multimodal learning has shown promising performance in content-based recommendation due to the auxiliary user and item information of multiple modalities such as text and images. However, the problem of incomplete and missing modality is rarely explored and most existing methods fail in learning a recommendation model …

2018-08-21abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗