Classification using multimodal data arises in many machine learning applications. It is crucial not only to model cross-modal relationship effectively but also to ensure robustness against loss of part of data or modalities. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning-based multimodal fusion architecture for class…
Improved software flaw detection using NAS on multimodal DL models.
problem Software flaw detection in multimodal deep learning models.
method Adapted NAS framework for multimodal learning, combined with multimodal deep learning models.
result Improved performance on the Juliet Test Suite.
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.
EmbraceNet fusion model for multi-sensor activity recognition.
problem Human activity recognition using multiple sensors is challenging.
method Independent processing of each sensor, feature fusion with EmbraceNet, post-processing, and additional processes.
result Improved performance in SHL recognition challenge.
Systematic review of multimodal data challenges and solutions.
problem Challenges in integrating diverse data types for improved diagnostics and personalized care.
method Synthesizing findings from 69 studies on technical obstacles and recent methodological advances.
result Promising solutions like transfer learning, generative models, attention mechanisms, and neural architecture search.
RandomNet uses random search to design neural architectures without much human intervention.
problem Designing neural architectures without excessive human intervention.
method Random search strategy for multimodal neural architecture design.
result RandomNet performs close to state-of-the-art on AV-MNIST with minimal human supervision.
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.
Evidential Softmax preserves multimodality in sparse probability distributions for generative models.
problem Sparse probability distributions in deep generative models make exact marginalization computationally intractable.
method Introduce ev-softmax, a sparse normalization function that preserves multimodality and can be trained with probabilistic loss functions.
result ev-softmax outperforms existing techniques in distributional accuracy and dimensionality reduction.
daep learns from irregular, multimodal astronomical data.
problem Learning from irregular, multimodal astronomical sequences.
method Diffusion Autoencoder with Perceivers (daep) tokenizes, compresses, and reconstructs data.
result daep outperforms VAE and maep baselines in reconstruction and fine-scale structure preservation.
UniPhyNet improves cognitive load classification accuracy using EEG, ECG, and EDA signals.
problem Classifying cognitive load using multimodal physiological data.
method Unified network architecture integrating multiscale parallel convolutional blocks, ResNet-type blocks, and channel block attention module. Uses bidirectional gated recurrent unit for temporal dependencies.
result Improves raw signal classification accuracy from 70% to 80% (binary) and 62% to 74% (ternary) on CL-Drive dataset.
Proposes neural network for causal inference with multimodal data.
problem Estimating causal effects with text and image data as confounders.
method Double machine learning framework adapted to partially linear models, semi-synthetic dataset generation.
result Improved performance in causal effect estimation with multimodal data.
Enhances stock movement prediction using Higher Order Transformers for multimodal time-series data.
problem Predicting stock movements in financial markets with complex dynamics.
method Introduced Higher Order Transformers, extending self-attention and transformer architecture to capture complex market dynamics. Employed low-rank tensor decomposition and kernel attention to manage computational complexity. Integrated technical and fundamental analysis from historical prices and tweets.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of the method on the Stocknet dataset, improving stock movement prediction.
Study proposes a multimodal model for cardiovascular risk prediction using EHRs.
problem Lack of comprehensive risk prediction from EHRs due to unstructured text.
method Proposes a multimodal BiLSTM model integrating structured and unstructured EHR data.
result Proposed BiLSTM model outperforms other DNN architectures in cardiovascular risk prediction.
Paper proposes a capsule attention mechanism for EEG-EOG vigilance estimation.
problem Driver vigilance estimation for safer transportation.
method Capsule attention mechanism following LSTM network for multimodal EEG-EOG analysis.
result Capsule attention improves vigilance estimation robustness and accuracy.
GWN improves multimodal data fusion accuracy for chronic pain patients.
problem Dynamic and unspecified uncertainties in multimodal data fusion.
method Inspired by Global Workspace Theory, GWN is a neural network architecture that dynamically attends to multiple modalities.
result GWN achieved higher F1 scores (0.92 and 0.75) for multimodal discrimination and classification tasks.
NAS improves gliomas segmentation on MRI scans.
problem Designing optimal deep learning architectures for brain tumor segmentation.
method Neural architecture search with probabilistic parameter learning for MRI brain tumor segmentation.
result Two optimal neural architectures for brain tumor segmentation were discovered.
We introduce a deep multitask architecture to integrate multityped representations of multimodal objects. This multitype exposition is less abstract than the multimodal characterization, but more machine-friendly, and thus is more precise to model. For example, an image can be described by multiple visual views, which …
Bayesian VFLMSP improves multimodal survival prediction with privacy.
problem Privacy and reliability in multimodal time-to-event prediction.
method Bayesian Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) with differential privacy.
result Consistent improvements in C-index compared to existing methods.
This paper presents a novel model for multimodal learning based on gated neural networks. The Gated Multimodal Unit (GMU) model is intended to be used as an internal unit in a neural network architecture whose purpose is to find an intermediate representation based on a combination of data from different modalities. Th…
With the increasing popularity of video sharing websites such as YouTube and Facebook, multimodal sentiment analysis has received increasing attention from the scientific community. Contrary to previous works in multimodal sentiment analysis which focus on holistic information in speech segments such as bag of words re…
StoryGen uses images to generate coherent text from multiple images.
problem Generating coherent text from multiple images.
method Designing a Relational Text Data Generator algorithm to relate features from plural images.
result The model can generate meaningful paragraphs containing extracted features from input images.
This research improves multimodal systems by adding a second objective and regularisation methods.
problem Improving performance of multimodal systems with multiple objectives and regularisation.
method Introduces a second objective over multimodal fusion using variational inference and regularisation methods.
result Demonstrates potential for multiple objectives and probabilistic methods to lower variance and improve generalisation.
Study improves stock movement prediction using multimodal data.
problem Inaccurate stock movement prediction due to incomplete multimodal data integration.
method Introduces MSGCA framework for robust multimodal fusion.
result MSGCA framework outperforms existing methods by 21.7% on multimodal datasets.
Unsupervised methods have proven effective for discriminative tasks in a single-modality scenario. In this paper, we present a multimodal framework for learning sparse representations that can capture semantic correlation between modalities. The framework can model relationships at a higher level by forcing the shared …
Improved audio event recognition using audiovisual transformers.
problem Weakly labeled audio event classification with limited temporal information.
method Adapted transformer architecture that combines audio and video inputs.
result State-of-the-art performance on audiovisual data set.
uGMM-NN integrates probabilistic reasoning into neural networks.
problem Capturing multimodality and uncertainty in neural network activations.
method Parameterizes activations as univariate Gaussian mixtures with learnable parameters.
result Competitive discriminative performance with probabilistic activations.
Deep learning algorithms excel at extracting patterns from raw data, and with large datasets, they have been very successful in computer vision and natural language applications. However, in other domains, large datasets on which to learn representations from may not exist. In this work, we develop a novel multimodal C…
AV-ASR system improves speech recognition with visual context.
problem Improving speech recognition accuracy with visual information.
method Transformer-based architecture with multiresolution and multimodal training.
result Multiresolution training speeds up convergence and improves WER by 18%.
Training-free method improves text-to-image generation quality.
problem Error accumulation in simultaneous token updates of masked diffusion models.
method Training-free self-correction framework exploiting inductive biases.
result Significantly improved generation quality on text-to-image tasks.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide state-of-the-art results for a multitude of applications, but the approaches using DNNs for multimodal audiovisual applications do not consider predictive uncertainty associated with individual modalities. Bayesian deep learning methods provide principled confidence and quantify pred…
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.
In recent years, there have been numerous developments towards solving multimodal tasks, aiming to learn a stronger representation than through a single modality. Certain aspects of the data can be particularly useful in this case - for example, correlations in the space or time domain across modalities - but should be…
We analyse multimodal time-series data corresponding to weight, sleep and steps measurements. We focus on predicting whether a user will successfully achieve his/her weight objective. For this, we design several deep long short-term memory (LSTM) architectures, including a novel cross-modal LSTM (X-LSTM), and demonstra…
In this paper, we address the problem of conditional modality learning, whereby one is interested in generating one modality given the other. While it is straightforward to learn a joint distribution over multiple modalities using a deep multimodal architecture, we observe that such models aren't very effective at cond…
We propose a generalized class of multimodal fusion operators for the task of visual question answering (VQA). We identify generalizations of existing multimodal fusion operators based on the Hadamard product, and show that specific non-trivial instantiations of this generalized fusion operator exhibit superior perform…
Study integrates climate and text data to improve credit default prediction.
problem Improving credit risk assessment for mSEs with limited financial histories.
method Multimodal framework using LSTM, GRU, and transformer models.
result Integration of multiple data modalities improves credit default prediction.
Sleep stage classification constitutes an important preliminary exam in the diagnosis of sleep disorders. It is traditionally performed by a sleep expert who assigns to each 30s of signal a sleep stage, based on the visual inspection of signals such as electroencephalograms (EEG), electrooculograms (EOG), electrocardio…
This paper proposes a new architecture for speaker adaptation of multi-speaker neural-network speech synthesis systems, in which an unseen speaker's voice can be built using a relatively small amount of speech data without transcriptions. This is sometimes called "unsupervised speaker adaptation". More specifically, we…
Unified framework for generating meteorological time series from text.
problem Lack of large-scale, physically grounded multimodal datasets and architectures ignoring spectral-temporal structure.
method Introduce MeteoCap-3B dataset and MTransformer model.
result State-of-the-art generation quality, accurate cross-modal alignment, strong semantic controllability.
A2MT learns agents to select which modalities to acquire at test time.
problem Learning agents to select modalities for multimodal temporal data acquisition.
method Perceiver IO architecture for active acquisition of multimodal temporal data.
result Agents successfully learn cost-reactive acquisition behavior on real-world datasets.
Multimodal machine learning is a core research area spanning the language, visual and acoustic modalities. The central challenge in multimodal learning involves learning representations that can process and relate information from multiple modalities. In this paper, we propose two methods for unsupervised learning of j…
Survey of multimodal deep generative models for diverse data types.
problem Inference of shared representations and cross-modal generation from heterogeneous multimodal data.
method Variational autoencoders and other deep generative models.
result A comprehensive survey of multimodal deep generative models.
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…
FMT model improves multimodal sequential learning across language, vision, and acoustic data.
problem Modeling spatio-temporal dynamics across multiple modalities.
method Factorized Multimodal Transformer (FMT) that models intramodal and intermodal dynamics in a factorized manner.
result FMT outperforms existing models on 3 datasets and 21 labels, setting new state of the art.
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…
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.
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…
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.