Study predicts traffic congestion based on population mobility data.
problem Predicting traffic congestion in multimodal transport networks.
method Machine learning methods applied to population mobility data.
result Likely prediction of congestion based on population movements.
This study compares two methods for sampling with transport maps, finding flow-based proposals work better for multimodal distributions.
problem Sampling from distributions with complex geometries.
method Compares two approaches: (i) proposal draws from the flow and (ii) reparametrization.
result Flow-based proposals are more effective for multimodal distributions in high dimensions, while reparametrization methods are more robust in other scenarios.
A new method called TemperFlow tackles multimodality in sampling from unnormalized distributions.
problem Sampling from unnormalized distributions with isolated modes.
method TemperFlow learns a sequence of tempered distributions to progressively approach the target distribution.
result TemperFlow overcomes the limitations of existing methods and achieves superior performance.
Paper presents a method to align unpaired samples across different modalities.
problem Challenges in collecting paired samples for multimodal representation learning.
method Uses propensity score alignment based on Rubin's framework to estimate a common space for unpaired samples.
result Optimal transport matching significantly improves alignment in real-world data.
CDS combines PT and diffusion for efficient sampling from multimodal distributions.
problem Sampling from unnormalized multimodal distributions efficiently.
method Conditional Diffusion Sampling (CDS) using Conditional Interpolants and Parallel Tempering.
result CDS achieves a superior trade-off between sample quality and density evaluation cost.
TAROT improves data selection for complex multimodal distributions.
problem Suboptimal data selection in multimodal distributions.
method TAROT uses optimal transport theory to select data, addressing greedy heuristics' limitations.
result TAROT outperforms state-of-the-art methods across various deep learning tasks.
DTA aligns multimodal data with prior correspondence knowledge.
problem Challenges in aligning data from different domains.
method Semi-supervised manifold alignment method exploiting prior correspondence knowledge.
result DTA outperforms other methods in aligning multimodal data.
OTSeg uses multi-prompt Sinkhorn attention to improve zero-shot semantic segmentation.
problem Leveraging pre-trained CLIP knowledge to align text embeddings with pixel embeddings.
method OTSeg employs Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn (MPS) and Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn Attention (MPSA) to enhance semantic feature matching.
result OTSeg achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation tasks.
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.
This paper generalizes neural transport learning for free energy estimation in arbitrary state spaces.
problem Efficient estimation of free energy in various state spaces.
method Generalized neural transport learning approach for arbitrary state spaces.
result Validation of the proposed method's effectiveness and efficiency in diverse settings.
TRACE improves conformal prediction for multi-dimensional outputs.
problem Challenges in constructing valid and informative conformal prediction regions for multi-dimensional outputs.
method TRACE uses transport alignment in diffusion and flow matching models to define nonconformity scores.
result TRACE yields valid and adaptive conformal prediction regions for multimodal and non-convex distributions.
Study proposes a new metric for comparing Gaussian mixtures in RKHS.
problem Comparing complex multimodal densities in RKHS.
method Wasserstein-type metric for kernel Gaussian mixtures.
result Enhanced capability to model multimodal densities.
New method accelerates Parallel Tempering using neural samplers.
problem Challenges in sampling from high-dimensional, multimodal distributions.
method Leverages neural samplers to reduce overlap between distributions.
result Improves sample quality and reduces computational cost.
GMM uses mmWave radar to classify traffic modes in poor lighting.
problem Classifying traffic modes in poor lighting conditions.
method GMM on mmWave radar point clouds.
result Good segmentation performance in pedestrian and car classification.
In cargo logistics, a key performance measure is transport risk, defined as the deviation of the actual arrival time from the planned arrival time. Neither earliness nor tardiness is desirable for customer and freight forwarders. In this paper, we investigate ways to assess and forecast transport risks using a half-yea…
Branching Flows generates sequences of varying lengths using binary trees.
problem Generating sequences of unknown lengths or fixed elements.
method A generative modeling framework that evolves states over binary trees, controlling sequence length.
result Branching Flows can generate sequences of varying lengths and mix different types of state spaces.
In many machine learning applications, it is necessary to meaningfully aggregate, through alignment, different but related datasets. Optimal transport (OT)-based approaches pose alignment as a divergence minimization problem: the aim is to transform a source dataset to match a target dataset using the Wasserstein dista…
New method uses neural maps to efficiently sample lattice QCD distributions.
problem Challenges in sampling Boltzmann distributions of lattice field theories.
method Sparse triangular transport maps exploiting conditional independence structure of lattice graphs.
result Sparse triangular maps achieve efficient sampling with linear time complexity in lattice size.
Due to their ubiquitous and pervasive nature, Wi-Fi networks have the potential to collect large-scale, low-cost, and disaggregate data on multimodal transportation. In this study, we develop a semi-supervised deep residual network (ResNet) framework to utilize Wi-Fi communications obtained from smartphones for the pur…
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…
TCT learns multimodal sequence representations by translating from related sequences.
problem Challenges in learning semantic representations from multimodalities.
method Transformer based Cross-modal Translator (TCT) combined with Multimodal Transformer Network (MTN).
result Proposed method achieves new state-of-the-art performance on video-grounded dialogue.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
PDDS samples from unnormalized densities using iterative particle scheme.
problem Sampling from unnormalized probability densities.
method Iterative particle scheme with novel score matching loss.
result Asymptotically consistent estimates for multimodal and high-dimensional tasks.
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…
Study quantifies interactions between unlabeled multimodal data.
problem Understanding how modalities combine in semi-supervised settings.
method Information-theoretic definitions and bounds derivation.
result Validated lower and upper bounds accurately track true interactions.
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.
Integrating visual and linguistic information into a single multimodal representation is an unsolved problem with wide-reaching applications to both natural language processing and computer vision. In this paper, we present a simple method to build multimodal representations by learning a language-to-vision mapping and…
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 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.
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…
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.
VAEs struggle with surjective multimodal data, especially class labels describing images.
problem VAEs struggle to capture variability in surjective multimodal data.
method Theoretical and empirical demonstration of VAEs with a mixture of experts posterior.
result VAEs with a mixture of experts posterior can disregard variation in surjective multimodal data.
Framework generates multimodal datasets with known MI for benchmarking.
problem Benchmarking mutual information estimators and SSL techniques.
method Flow-based generative model and structured causal framework.
result Regression performance improves with increasing MI between modalities.
Proposes a new method for analyzing multimodal neuroimaging data.
problem Combining interpretability and flexibility in multimodal data analysis.
method Orthogonalized kernel debiased machine learning approach.
result Established consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimated primary parameter.
We present convolutional neural network (CNN) based approaches for unsupervised multimodal subspace clustering. The proposed framework consists of three main stages - multimodal encoder, self-expressive layer, and multimodal decoder. The encoder takes multimodal data as input and fuses them to a latent space representa…
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.
Estimates interactions between modalities for multimodal data.
problem Accurately quantifying interactions between different data types.
method Developed Lightweight Sample-wise Multimodal Interaction (LSMI) estimator using pointwise information theory.
result LSMI reveals fine-grained dynamics in multimodal data.
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.