Gradient-Guided Modality Decoupling for Missing-Modality Robustness

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Main Authors: Wang, Hao, Luo, Shengda, Hu, Guosheng, Zhang, Jianguo
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author Wang, Hao
Luo, Shengda
Hu, Guosheng
Zhang, Jianguo
author_facet Wang, Hao
Luo, Shengda
Hu, Guosheng
Zhang, Jianguo
contents Multimodal learning with incomplete input data (missing modality) is practical and challenging. In this work, we conduct an in-depth analysis of this challenge and find that modality dominance has a significant negative impact on the model training, greatly degrading the missing modality performance. Motivated by Grad-CAM, we introduce a novel indicator, gradients, to monitor and reduce modality dominance which widely exists in the missing-modality scenario. In aid of this indicator, we present a novel Gradient-guided Modality Decoupling (GMD) method to decouple the dependency on dominating modalities. Specifically, GMD removes the conflicted gradient components from different modalities to achieve this decoupling, significantly improving the performance. In addition, to flexibly handle modal-incomplete data, we design a parameter-efficient Dynamic Sharing (DS) framework which can adaptively switch on/off the network parameters based on whether one modality is available. We conduct extensive experiments on three popular multimodal benchmarks, including BraTS 2018 for medical segmentation, CMU-MOSI, and CMU-MOSEI for sentiment analysis. The results show that our method can significantly outperform the competitors, showing the effectiveness of the proposed solutions. Our code is released here: https://github.com/HaoWang420/Gradient-guided-Modality-Decoupling.
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spellingShingle Gradient-Guided Modality Decoupling for Missing-Modality Robustness
Wang, Hao
Luo, Shengda
Hu, Guosheng
Zhang, Jianguo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Multimodal learning with incomplete input data (missing modality) is practical and challenging. In this work, we conduct an in-depth analysis of this challenge and find that modality dominance has a significant negative impact on the model training, greatly degrading the missing modality performance. Motivated by Grad-CAM, we introduce a novel indicator, gradients, to monitor and reduce modality dominance which widely exists in the missing-modality scenario. In aid of this indicator, we present a novel Gradient-guided Modality Decoupling (GMD) method to decouple the dependency on dominating modalities. Specifically, GMD removes the conflicted gradient components from different modalities to achieve this decoupling, significantly improving the performance. In addition, to flexibly handle modal-incomplete data, we design a parameter-efficient Dynamic Sharing (DS) framework which can adaptively switch on/off the network parameters based on whether one modality is available. We conduct extensive experiments on three popular multimodal benchmarks, including BraTS 2018 for medical segmentation, CMU-MOSI, and CMU-MOSEI for sentiment analysis. The results show that our method can significantly outperform the competitors, showing the effectiveness of the proposed solutions. Our code is released here: https://github.com/HaoWang420/Gradient-guided-Modality-Decoupling.
title Gradient-Guided Modality Decoupling for Missing-Modality Robustness
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16318