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Residual-Guided Expert Specialization for Incomplete Multimodal Learning

arXiv:2606. 30355v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As real-world prediction systems often face missing modalities at inference, incomplete multimodal learning (IML) remains a practical challenge.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Unsupervised Learning for Missing Modalities in Multimodal Learning

arXiv:2606. 15743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the missing-modality challenge in multi-modal learning by introducing Unsupervised Learning for Missing Modalities in Multi-Modal Learning (UL4M4), a flexible framework that imputes missing feature embeddings in a task-independent manner before supervised prediction.

By Hassan Ismkhan, Hamid Bouchahcia
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 17

MedMix: Specialization-Consistent Federated Sparse MoEs under Modality Heterogeneity

arXiv:2608. 13911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated multimodal medical AI faces modality heterogeneity at both the client and sample levels: clients may systematically lack access to specific modality types, while individual records within the same client may contain different partial modality subsets.

By Adiba Orzikulova, Dong Min Kim, Jaehong Yoon, Sung-Ju Lee
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

Harnessing Domain Specialists in Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts for Efficient Adaptation

The paper investigates whether the sparsity of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models leads to intrinsic semantic organization across modalities and domains. It shows that experts naturally specialize semantically even without explicit modular training. The authors propose ExpertLens, a data‑free method that decodes router weights to identify domain‑specialized experts, enabling selective fine‑tuning that matches or exceeds full fine‑tuning while updating only 21.7–47.0% of parameters and achieving a 4.0× speedup, outperforming LoRA in both performance and efficiency.

By Damiano Marsili, Raphi Kang, Aditya Mehta, Pietro Perona, Georgia Gkioxari
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

SAME: Stabilized Mixture-of-Experts for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

The paper introduces SAME (Stabilized Mixture-of-Experts) to address challenges in Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) for large language models. SAME mitigates router drift by decomposing routing dynamics into orthogonal subspaces and updating only task-relevant directions, while preventing expert drift through curvature‑aware scaling that uses historical input covariance without rehearsal. The method also employs adaptive expert activation to freeze selected experts during training, reducing redundant computation and cross‑task interference, and demonstrates state‑of‑the‑art performance on a new long‑task‑sequence benchmark.

By Zhen-Hao Xie, Jun-Tao Tang, Yu-Cheng Shi, Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan Zhan, Da-Wei Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

TIER-MoE: Trust-Informed Expert Routing via Conditional Modality Risk for Multimodal Fusion in Biomedical Classification

arXiv:2607. 27289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The promise of multimodal fusion lies in combining complementary sources of evidence, yet more evidence does not always yield a better prediction.

By Yu Chang, Anzhe Cheng, Chenwei Wu, Zhuoran Wang, Jiahao Chen, Tamoghna Chattopadhyay, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Paul M. Thompson, Liyue Shen, Paul Bogdan
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Generalist-Specialist Mixture-of-Experts for Rare Pathology Detection in Multimodal Imaging

The paper introduces Generalist‑Specialist Mixture‑of‑Experts (GS‑MoE), a two‑branch architecture that combines a cross‑modal generalist model with modality‑specific specialists through domain‑constrained feature fusion. GS‑MoE improves detection of rare pathologies in multimodal medical imaging, achieving significant per‑class F1 gains and outperforming dense and specialist‑only MoE baselines while using about 53% fewer active parameters at inference. The study demonstrates that balancing cross‑modal shared representations with expert routing can enhance performance on low‑prevalence conditions.

By Johannes Kaiser, Florian Braunmiller, Daniel R\"uckert, Georgios Kaissis