arXiv Machine Learning By Ilia Koloiarov, Diego Coello de Portugal Mecke, Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi, Tom Hanika, Lars Schmidt-Thieme

The Importance of Encoder Choice:A Tabular-Image Study

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arXiv:2607. 07756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal learning usually requires a dedicated encoder per modality.

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