InfoMAE: Pair-Efficient Cross-Modal Alignment for Multimodal Time-Series Sensing Signals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09707v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:03:29 GMT
• Title: InfoMAE: Pair-Efficient Cross-Modal Alignment for Multimodal Time-Series Sensing Signals
• Authors: Tomoyoshi Kimura, Xinlin Li, Osama Hanna, Yatong Chen, Yizhuo Chen, Denizhan Kara, Tianshi Wang, Jinyang Li, Xiaomin Ouyang, Shengzhong Liu, Mani Srivastava, Suhas Diggavi, Tarek Abdelzaher,
• Abstract summary: InfoMAE is a cross-modal alignment framework that tackles the challenge of multimodal pair efficiency under the SSL setting.<n>It enhances downstream multimodal tasks by over 60% with significantly improved multimodal pairing efficiency.<n>It also improves unimodal task accuracy by an average of 22%.
• Score: 9.648001493025204
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Standard multimodal self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms regard cross-modal synchronization as implicit supervisory labels during pretraining, thus posing high requirements on the scale and quality of multimodal samples. These constraints significantly limit the performance of sensing intelligence in IoT applications, as the heterogeneity and the non-interpretability of time-series signals result in abundant unimodal data but scarce high-quality multimodal pairs. This paper proposes InfoMAE, a cross-modal alignment framework that tackles the challenge of multimodal pair efficiency under the SSL setting by facilitating efficient cross-modal alignment of pretrained unimodal representations. InfoMAE achieves \textit{efficient cross-modal alignment} with \textit{limited data pairs} through a novel information theory-inspired formulation that simultaneously addresses distribution-level and instance-level alignment. Extensive experiments on two real-world IoT applications are performed to evaluate InfoMAE's pairing efficiency to bridge pretrained unimodal models into a cohesive joint multimodal model. InfoMAE enhances downstream multimodal tasks by over 60% with significantly improved multimodal pairing efficiency. It also improves unimodal task accuracy by an average of 22%.

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