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cross-modal correlation

Cross-modal correlation refers to the statistical, semantic, or structural relationships and mutual dependencies that exist between distinct data modalities, such as text, vision, audio, and sensor signals, that describe the same underlying entity, concept, or event. In multimodal machine learning and data fusion, modeling cross-modal correlation involves identifying shared representations, alignments, and complementary interactions across these heterogeneous input channels. Capturing these mutual dependencies allows computational systems to bridge the representational gap between disparate data types, resolve ambiguities present in isolated modalities, and effectively integrate diverse information streams to enhance performance in tasks such as cross-modal retrieval, multimodal classification, and joint reasoning.

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Provable Dynamic Fusion for Low-Quality Multimodal Data

Provable Dynamic Fusion for Low-Quality Multimodal Data

Qingyang Zhang, Haitao Wu, Changqing Zhang, Qinghua Hu, Huazhu Fu, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Xi Peng

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Establishes theoretical generalization bounds for dynamic decision-level multimodal integration and introduces Quality-aware Multimodal Fusion to prevent performance degradation on noisy and low-quality inputs.

The inherent challenge of multimodal fusion is to precisely capture the cross-modal correlation and flexibly conduct cross-modal interaction. To fully release the value of each modality and mitigate the influence of low-quality multimodal data, dynamic multimodal fusion emerges as a promising learning paradigm. Despite its widespread use, theoretical justifications in this field are still notably lacking. Can we design a provably robust multimodal fusion method? This paper provides theoretical understandings to answer this question under a most popular multimodal fusion framework from the generalization perspective. We proceed to reveal that several uncertainty estimation solutions are naturally available to achieve robust multimodal fusion. Then a novel multimodal fusion framework termed Quality-aware Multimodal Fusion (QMF) is proposed, which can improve the performance in terms of classification accuracy and model robustness. Extensive experimental results on multiple benchmarks can support our findings.

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2026-09-26