Decoupling Common and Unique Representations for Multimodal Self-supervised Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05300v3
• Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:43:13 GMT
• Title: Decoupling Common and Unique Representations for Multimodal Self-supervised Learning
• Authors: Yi Wang, Conrad M Albrecht, Nassim Ait Ali Braham, Chenying Liu, Zhitong Xiong, Xiao Xiang Zhu,
• Abstract summary: We propose Decoupling Common and Unique Representations (DeCUR), a simple yet effective method for multimodal self-supervised learning. By distinguishing inter- and intra-modal embeddings through multimodal redundancy reduction, DeCUR can integrate complementary information across different modalities.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The increasing availability of multi-sensor data sparks wide interest in multimodal self-supervised learning. However, most existing approaches learn only common representations across modalities while ignoring intra-modal training and modality-unique representations. We propose Decoupling Common and Unique Representations (DeCUR), a simple yet effective method for multimodal self-supervised learning. By distinguishing inter- and intra-modal embeddings through multimodal redundancy reduction, DeCUR can integrate complementary information across different modalities. We evaluate DeCUR in three common multimodal scenarios (radar-optical, RGB-elevation, and RGB-depth), and demonstrate its consistent improvement regardless of architectures and for both multimodal and modality-missing settings. With thorough experiments and comprehensive analysis, we hope this work can provide valuable insights and raise more interest in researching the hidden relationships of multimodal representations.

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