CLCR: Cross-Level Semantic Collaborative Representation for Multimodal Learning

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Autores principales: Meng, Chunlei, Huang, Guanhong, Fu, Rong, Jian, Runmin, Gan, Zhongxue, Ouyang, Chun
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author Meng, Chunlei
Huang, Guanhong
Fu, Rong
Jian, Runmin
Gan, Zhongxue
Ouyang, Chun
author_facet Meng, Chunlei
Huang, Guanhong
Fu, Rong
Jian, Runmin
Gan, Zhongxue
Ouyang, Chun
contents Multimodal learning aims to capture both shared and private information from multiple modalities. However, existing methods that project all modalities into a single latent space for fusion often overlook the asynchronous, multi-level semantic structure of multimodal data. This oversight induces semantic misalignment and error propagation, thereby degrading representation quality. To address this issue, we propose Cross-Level Co-Representation (CLCR), which explicitly organizes each modality's features into a three-level semantic hierarchy and specifies level-wise constraints for cross-modal interactions. First, a semantic hierarchy encoder aligns shallow, mid, and deep features across modalities, establishing a common basis for interaction. And then, at each level, an Intra-Level Co-Exchange Domain (IntraCED) factorizes features into shared and private subspaces and restricts cross-modal attention to the shared subspace via a learnable token budget. This design ensures that only shared semantics are exchanged and prevents leakage from private channels. To integrate information across levels, the Inter-Level Co-Aggregation Domain (InterCAD) synchronizes semantic scales using learned anchors, selectively fuses the shared representations, and gates private cues to form a compact task representation. We further introduce regularization terms to enforce separation of shared and private features and to minimize cross-level interference. Experiments on six benchmarks spanning emotion recognition, event localization, sentiment analysis, and action recognition show that CLCR achieves strong performance and generalizes well across tasks.
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spellingShingle CLCR: Cross-Level Semantic Collaborative Representation for Multimodal Learning
Meng, Chunlei
Huang, Guanhong
Fu, Rong
Jian, Runmin
Gan, Zhongxue
Ouyang, Chun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
Multimodal learning aims to capture both shared and private information from multiple modalities. However, existing methods that project all modalities into a single latent space for fusion often overlook the asynchronous, multi-level semantic structure of multimodal data. This oversight induces semantic misalignment and error propagation, thereby degrading representation quality. To address this issue, we propose Cross-Level Co-Representation (CLCR), which explicitly organizes each modality's features into a three-level semantic hierarchy and specifies level-wise constraints for cross-modal interactions. First, a semantic hierarchy encoder aligns shallow, mid, and deep features across modalities, establishing a common basis for interaction. And then, at each level, an Intra-Level Co-Exchange Domain (IntraCED) factorizes features into shared and private subspaces and restricts cross-modal attention to the shared subspace via a learnable token budget. This design ensures that only shared semantics are exchanged and prevents leakage from private channels. To integrate information across levels, the Inter-Level Co-Aggregation Domain (InterCAD) synchronizes semantic scales using learned anchors, selectively fuses the shared representations, and gates private cues to form a compact task representation. We further introduce regularization terms to enforce separation of shared and private features and to minimize cross-level interference. Experiments on six benchmarks spanning emotion recognition, event localization, sentiment analysis, and action recognition show that CLCR achieves strong performance and generalizes well across tasks.
title CLCR: Cross-Level Semantic Collaborative Representation for Multimodal Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19605