DynCIM: Dynamic Curriculum for Imbalanced Multimodal Learning

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Autores principales: Qian, Chengxuan, Han, Kai, Liu, Jiaxin, Yuan, Zhenlong, Zhu, Zhengzhong, Wang, Jingchao, Lyu, Chongwen, Chen, Jun, Liu, Zhe
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author Qian, Chengxuan
Han, Kai
Liu, Jiaxin
Yuan, Zhenlong
Zhu, Zhengzhong
Wang, Jingchao
Lyu, Chongwen
Chen, Jun
Liu, Zhe
author_facet Qian, Chengxuan
Han, Kai
Liu, Jiaxin
Yuan, Zhenlong
Zhu, Zhengzhong
Wang, Jingchao
Lyu, Chongwen
Chen, Jun
Liu, Zhe
contents Multimodal learning integrates complementary information from diverse modalities to enhance the decision-making process. However, the potential of multimodal collaboration remains under-exploited due to disparities in data quality and modality representation capabilities. To address this, we introduce DynCIM, a novel dynamic curriculum learning framework designed to quantify the inherent imbalances from both sample and modality perspectives. DynCIM employs a sample-level curriculum to dynamically assess each sample's difficulty according to prediction deviation, consistency, and stability, while a modality-level curriculum measures modality contributions from global and local. Furthermore, a gating-based dynamic fusion mechanism is introduced to adaptively adjust modality contributions, minimizing redundancy and optimizing fusion effectiveness. Extensive experiments on six multimodal benchmarking datasets, spanning both bimodal and trimodal scenarios, demonstrate that DynCIM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Our approach effectively mitigates modality and sample imbalances while enhancing adaptability and robustness in multimodal learning tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/Raymond-Qiancx/DynCIM.
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spellingShingle DynCIM: Dynamic Curriculum for Imbalanced Multimodal Learning
Qian, Chengxuan
Han, Kai
Liu, Jiaxin
Yuan, Zhenlong
Zhu, Zhengzhong
Wang, Jingchao
Lyu, Chongwen
Chen, Jun
Liu, Zhe
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimodal learning integrates complementary information from diverse modalities to enhance the decision-making process. However, the potential of multimodal collaboration remains under-exploited due to disparities in data quality and modality representation capabilities. To address this, we introduce DynCIM, a novel dynamic curriculum learning framework designed to quantify the inherent imbalances from both sample and modality perspectives. DynCIM employs a sample-level curriculum to dynamically assess each sample's difficulty according to prediction deviation, consistency, and stability, while a modality-level curriculum measures modality contributions from global and local. Furthermore, a gating-based dynamic fusion mechanism is introduced to adaptively adjust modality contributions, minimizing redundancy and optimizing fusion effectiveness. Extensive experiments on six multimodal benchmarking datasets, spanning both bimodal and trimodal scenarios, demonstrate that DynCIM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Our approach effectively mitigates modality and sample imbalances while enhancing adaptability and robustness in multimodal learning tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/Raymond-Qiancx/DynCIM.
title DynCIM: Dynamic Curriculum for Imbalanced Multimodal Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06456