Knowledge Bridger: Towards Training-free Missing Modality Completion

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ke, Guanzhou, He, Shengfeng, Wang, Xiao Li, Wang, Bo, Chao, Guoqing, Zhang, Yuanyang, Xie, Yi, Su, HeXing
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866909651159744512
author Ke, Guanzhou
He, Shengfeng
Wang, Xiao Li
Wang, Bo
Chao, Guoqing
Zhang, Yuanyang
Xie, Yi
Su, HeXing
author_facet Ke, Guanzhou
He, Shengfeng
Wang, Xiao Li
Wang, Bo
Chao, Guoqing
Zhang, Yuanyang
Xie, Yi
Su, HeXing
contents Previous successful approaches to missing modality completion rely on carefully designed fusion techniques and extensive pre-training on complete data, which can limit their generalizability in out-of-domain (OOD) scenarios. In this study, we pose a new challenge: can we develop a missing modality completion model that is both resource-efficient and robust to OOD generalization? To address this, we present a training-free framework for missing modality completion that leverages large multimodal models (LMMs). Our approach, termed the "Knowledge Bridger", is modality-agnostic and integrates generation and ranking of missing modalities. By defining domain-specific priors, our method automatically extracts structured information from available modalities to construct knowledge graphs. These extracted graphs connect the missing modality generation and ranking modules through the LMM, resulting in high-quality imputations of missing modalities. Experimental results across both general and medical domains show that our approach consistently outperforms competing methods, including in OOD generalization. Additionally, our knowledge-driven generation and ranking techniques demonstrate superiority over variants that directly employ LMMs for generation and ranking, offering insights that may be valuable for applications in other domains.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2502_19834
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Knowledge Bridger: Towards Training-free Missing Modality Completion
Ke, Guanzhou
He, Shengfeng
Wang, Xiao Li
Wang, Bo
Chao, Guoqing
Zhang, Yuanyang
Xie, Yi
Su, HeXing
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Previous successful approaches to missing modality completion rely on carefully designed fusion techniques and extensive pre-training on complete data, which can limit their generalizability in out-of-domain (OOD) scenarios. In this study, we pose a new challenge: can we develop a missing modality completion model that is both resource-efficient and robust to OOD generalization? To address this, we present a training-free framework for missing modality completion that leverages large multimodal models (LMMs). Our approach, termed the "Knowledge Bridger", is modality-agnostic and integrates generation and ranking of missing modalities. By defining domain-specific priors, our method automatically extracts structured information from available modalities to construct knowledge graphs. These extracted graphs connect the missing modality generation and ranking modules through the LMM, resulting in high-quality imputations of missing modalities. Experimental results across both general and medical domains show that our approach consistently outperforms competing methods, including in OOD generalization. Additionally, our knowledge-driven generation and ranking techniques demonstrate superiority over variants that directly employ LMMs for generation and ranking, offering insights that may be valuable for applications in other domains.
title Knowledge Bridger: Towards Training-free Missing Modality Completion
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19834