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author Liu, Xianyuan
Zhang, Jiayang
Zhou, Shuo
van der Plas, Thijs L.
Vijayaraghavan, Avish
Grishina, Anastasiia
Zhuang, Mengdie
Schofield, Daniel
Tomlinson, Christopher
Wang, Yuhan
Li, Ruizhe
van Zeeland, Louisa
Tabakhi, Sina
Demeocq, Cyndie
Li, Xiang
Das, Arunav
Timmerman, Orlando
Baldwin-McDonald, Thomas
Wu, Jinge
Bai, Peizhen
Sahili, Zahraa Al
Alwazzan, Omnia
Do, Thao N.
Suvon, Mohammod N. I.
Wang, Angeline
Cipolina-Kun, Lucia
Moretti, Luigi A.
Farndale, Lucas
Jain, Nitisha
Efremova, Natalia
Ge, Yan
Varela, Marta
Lam, Hak-Keung
Celiktutan, Oya
Evans, Ben R.
Coca-Castro, Alejandro
Wu, Honghan
Abdallah, Zahraa S.
Chen, Chen
Danchev, Valentin
Tkachenko, Nataliya
Lu, Lei
Zhu, Tingting
Slabaugh, Gregory G.
Moore, Roger K.
Cheung, William K.
Charlton, Peter H.
Lu, Haiping
author_facet Liu, Xianyuan
Zhang, Jiayang
Zhou, Shuo
van der Plas, Thijs L.
Vijayaraghavan, Avish
Grishina, Anastasiia
Zhuang, Mengdie
Schofield, Daniel
Tomlinson, Christopher
Wang, Yuhan
Li, Ruizhe
van Zeeland, Louisa
Tabakhi, Sina
Demeocq, Cyndie
Li, Xiang
Das, Arunav
Timmerman, Orlando
Baldwin-McDonald, Thomas
Wu, Jinge
Bai, Peizhen
Sahili, Zahraa Al
Alwazzan, Omnia
Do, Thao N.
Suvon, Mohammod N. I.
Wang, Angeline
Cipolina-Kun, Lucia
Moretti, Luigi A.
Farndale, Lucas
Jain, Nitisha
Efremova, Natalia
Ge, Yan
Varela, Marta
Lam, Hak-Keung
Celiktutan, Oya
Evans, Ben R.
Coca-Castro, Alejandro
Wu, Honghan
Abdallah, Zahraa S.
Chen, Chen
Danchev, Valentin
Tkachenko, Nataliya
Lu, Lei
Zhu, Tingting
Slabaugh, Gregory G.
Moore, Roger K.
Cheung, William K.
Charlton, Peter H.
Lu, Haiping
contents Multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) integrates diverse types of data via machine learning to improve understanding, prediction, and decision-making across disciplines such as healthcare, science, and engineering. However, most multimodal AI advances focus on models for vision and language data, while their deployability remains a key challenge. We advocate a deployment-centric workflow that incorporates deployment constraints early to reduce the likelihood of undeployable solutions, complementing data-centric and model-centric approaches. We also emphasise deeper integration across multiple levels of multimodality and multidisciplinary collaboration to significantly broaden the research scope beyond vision and language. To facilitate this approach, we identify common multimodal-AI-specific challenges shared across disciplines and examine three real-world use cases: pandemic response, self-driving car design, and climate change adaptation, drawing expertise from healthcare, social science, engineering, science, sustainability, and finance. By fostering multidisciplinary dialogue and open research practices, our community can accelerate deployment-centric development for broad societal impact.
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spellingShingle Towards deployment-centric multimodal AI beyond vision and language
Liu, Xianyuan
Zhang, Jiayang
Zhou, Shuo
van der Plas, Thijs L.
Vijayaraghavan, Avish
Grishina, Anastasiia
Zhuang, Mengdie
Schofield, Daniel
Tomlinson, Christopher
Wang, Yuhan
Li, Ruizhe
van Zeeland, Louisa
Tabakhi, Sina
Demeocq, Cyndie
Li, Xiang
Das, Arunav
Timmerman, Orlando
Baldwin-McDonald, Thomas
Wu, Jinge
Bai, Peizhen
Sahili, Zahraa Al
Alwazzan, Omnia
Do, Thao N.
Suvon, Mohammod N. I.
Wang, Angeline
Cipolina-Kun, Lucia
Moretti, Luigi A.
Farndale, Lucas
Jain, Nitisha
Efremova, Natalia
Ge, Yan
Varela, Marta
Lam, Hak-Keung
Celiktutan, Oya
Evans, Ben R.
Coca-Castro, Alejandro
Wu, Honghan
Abdallah, Zahraa S.
Chen, Chen
Danchev, Valentin
Tkachenko, Nataliya
Lu, Lei
Zhu, Tingting
Slabaugh, Gregory G.
Moore, Roger K.
Cheung, William K.
Charlton, Peter H.
Lu, Haiping
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) integrates diverse types of data via machine learning to improve understanding, prediction, and decision-making across disciplines such as healthcare, science, and engineering. However, most multimodal AI advances focus on models for vision and language data, while their deployability remains a key challenge. We advocate a deployment-centric workflow that incorporates deployment constraints early to reduce the likelihood of undeployable solutions, complementing data-centric and model-centric approaches. We also emphasise deeper integration across multiple levels of multimodality and multidisciplinary collaboration to significantly broaden the research scope beyond vision and language. To facilitate this approach, we identify common multimodal-AI-specific challenges shared across disciplines and examine three real-world use cases: pandemic response, self-driving car design, and climate change adaptation, drawing expertise from healthcare, social science, engineering, science, sustainability, and finance. By fostering multidisciplinary dialogue and open research practices, our community can accelerate deployment-centric development for broad societal impact.
title Towards deployment-centric multimodal AI beyond vision and language
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03603