arXiv Computer Vision

Multi-task Disentangling Fusion Mamba-CNN for MODIS Spectral-Temporal Unmixing with Endmember Variability Modeling

The paper introduces Multi-task Disentangling Fusion Mamba (MDF-Mamba), a framework for spectral-temporal unmixing of MODIS time series. It uses a disentangling architecture that pairs per-channel spectral experts with a bidirectional Mamba temporal branch, and integrates their outputs via a manifold-constrained hyper-connection (mHCFusion). The method also models endmember variability with pixel-wise learnable weights and employs a multi-task training objective combining supervised abundance estimation, self-supervised spectral reconstruction, and endmember regularization, achieving top performance on most evaluation metrics for Alberta and Saskatchewan datasets.

arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Variational decomposition autoencoding improves disentanglement of latent representations

The paper introduces variational decomposition autoencoding (VDA), a framework that biases signal decomposition into latent representations. VDA is realized as variational decomposition autoencoders (DecVAEs), encoder-only networks that learn multiple latent subspaces aligned with time‑frequency characteristics. Experiments on simulated data and three speech datasets show that DecVAEs outperform traditional VAEs in disentanglement quality and robustness, producing factor‑specific latent subspaces when generative factors have distinct spectral signatures.

By Ioannis N. Ziogas, Aamna Al Shehhi, Ahsan H. Khandoker, Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis
arXiv AI
21h ago

InfMasking: A Unified Variational Framework for Synergistic Multimodal Learning

InfMasking introduces a unified multimodal learning framework that uses Infinite Masking to encourage fusion modules to capture synergistic information across modalities. By randomly masking modality features before fusion and enforcing consistency with an unmasked reference, the method discourages reliance on dominant or shared signals and promotes meaningful cross‑modal interactions. The approach models masked fused representations as Gaussian, optimizing closed‑form variational bounds, and demonstrates improved predictive performance and higher synergy metrics on benchmark datasets.

By Liangjian Wen, Qun Dai, Jiang Duan, Yong Dai, Jianzhuang Liu, Dongkai Wang, Jun Wang, Fuyuan Cao, Zenglin Xu, Zhao Kang
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

Revisiting Identity and Spectra Dispersion in Media-Bridged Time Series Forecasting: Linking Multivariate Signals and Narrative Flows

The paper introduces MIDAPN, a unified spatiotemporal forecasting backbone that integrates media-general graph adaptation and automatic temporal learning for both multivariate and multimodal time series. It employs a Multimedia Identity-Aware Graph to capture static, dynamic, and latent relationships across media, and a Spectral Prism Convolution for hierarchical temporal analysis. Extensive experiments on 13 multivariate and 12 multimodal datasets show MIDAPN consistently outperforms 16 state‑of‑the‑art TSF models and is compatible with various foundation models.

By Jierui Lei, Wenjian Zhang, Qingyi Yang, Yuyang Hong, Fangzheng Chen, Zhengbo Zhang, Haina Tang, Shiming Xiang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

When to Align, When to Predict: A Phase Diagram for Multimodal Learning

arXiv:2606. 11190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal alignment (CA) and cross-modal prediction (CP) are the dominant paradigms for multimodal representation learning, yet there is no systematic understanding of when each succeeds, when each fails, and when cross-modal training helps at all -- a gap that leaves practitioners, especially in scientific domains like biomedicine or astrophysics, with heterogeneous instruments and multiple levels of organization and measurement, unable to diagnose why standard methods underperform the best single modality.

By Ilay Kamai, Hugues Van Assel, Aviv Regev, Hagai B. Perets, Randall Balestriero
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

Agentic Multimodal Models for Environmental Hyperspectral Unmixing

The paper presents an agentic framework that uses a large vision‑language model to refine hyperspectral unmixing results from existing modular pipelines. By iteratively gathering spectral and spatial evidence through tools such as spectral‑library retrieval and abundance‑map visualization, the agent merges or discards endmembers and re‑estimates abundances. Experiments on HYDICE Urban, Jasper Ridge, and Stonewall Playa datasets show consistent improvements in endmember cardinality and overall decomposition quality across multiple pipelines, while remaining competitive with end‑to‑end methods.

By Micha{\l} Cholewa, Luca Ciampi, Nicola Messina, Przemys{\l}aw G{\l}omb, Giuseppe Amato
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Learning What's Real: Disentangling Signal and Measurement Artifacts in Multi-Sensor Data, with Applications to Astrophysics

arXiv:2604. 09787v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data collected from the physical world is always a combination of multiple sources: an underlying signal from the physical process of interest and a signal from measurement-dependent artifacts from the sensor or instrument.

By Pablo Mercader-Perez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Daniel Muthukrishna, Jeroen Audenaert, V. Ashley Villar, David W. Hogg, Marc Huertas-Company, William T. Freeman