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Co-Learning for Missing Arbitrary Modalities in Multi-modal Classification

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TL;DR - This paper introduces two co-learning methods for multimodal classification when arbitrary subsets of modalities may be unavailable at inference. The approaches improve robustness by emphasizing cross-modal collaboration at the feature and decision levels rather than relying primarily on fusion.

  • Supports unspecified missing-modality patterns beyond typical bimodal settings.
  • One method is more robust when only one modality is missing.
  • The other performs better when all but one modality are missing.
  • Experiments on two benchmarks show significant robustness gains across missing-modality conditions.

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Co-Learning for Missing Arbitrary Modalities in Multi-modal Classification

arXiv cs.CV Francisco Mena, Dino Ienco, Roberto Interdonato, Cassio F. Dantas, Simon Besnard 2026-07-27 arXiv:2607.24683

TL;DR - This paper introduces two co-learning methods for multimodal classification when arbitrary subsets of modalities may be unavailable at inference. The approaches improve robustness by emphasizing cross-modal collaboration at the feature and decision levels rather than relying primarily on fusion.

  • Supports unspecified missing-modality patterns beyond typical bimodal settings.
  • One method is more robust when only one modality is missing.
  • The other performs better when all but one modality are missing.
  • Experiments on two benchmarks show significant robustness gains across missing-modality conditions.
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