Mitigating Strong-Modality Collapse in Multimodal Learning via Inverted Asymmetric Fusion

arXiv:2608.26879 · cs.LG, cs.MM · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.MM

Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-27

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Distillation — 47× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 42× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 29× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Knowledge Distillation — 15× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Association for Computational Linguistics — 14× in this paper
• Ablation — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Inverted Asymmetric Fusion — 9× in this paper
• Late Fusion — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Learning — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 7× in this paper
• Multimodal Fusion — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Feature Extraction — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Modality-Aware Knowledge Distillation — 4× in this paper
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — 3× in this paper
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Affective Computing — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Weighting — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Dataset — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Integration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Optical Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Two-Stage Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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