Are We Making Progress in Multimodal Domain Generalization? A Comprehensive Benchmark Study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06643v1
• Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 17:51:16 GMT
• Title: Are We Making Progress in Multimodal Domain Generalization? A Comprehensive Benchmark Study
• Abstract summary: We introduce MMDG-Bench, the first unified and comprehensive benchmark for Multimodal Domain Generalization.<n> MMDG-Bench standardizes evaluation across six datasets spanning three diverse tasks.<n>It assesses corruption robustness, missing-modality generalization, misclassification detection, and out-of-distribution detection.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite the growing popularity of Multimodal Domain Generalization (MMDG) for enhancing model robustness, it remains unclear whether reported performance gains reflect genuine algorithmic progress or are artifacts of inconsistent evaluation protocols. Current research is fragmented, with studies varying significantly across datasets, modality configurations, and experimental settings. Furthermore, existing benchmarks focus predominantly on action recognition, often neglecting critical real-world challenges such as input corruptions, missing modalities, and model trustworthiness. This lack of standardization obscures a reliable assessment of the field's advancement. To address this issue, we introduce MMDG-Bench, the first unified and comprehensive benchmark for MMDG, which standardizes evaluation across six datasets spanning three diverse tasks: action recognition, mechanical fault diagnosis, and sentiment analysis. MMDG-Bench encompasses six modality combinations, nine representative methods, and multiple evaluation settings. Beyond standard accuracy, it systematically assesses corruption robustness, missing-modality generalization, misclassification detection, and out-of-distribution detection. With 7, 402 neural networks trained in total across 95 unique cross-domain tasks, MMDG-Bench yields five key findings: (1) under fair comparisons, recent specialized MMDG methods offer only marginal improvements over ERM baseline; (2) no single method consistently outperforms others across datasets or modality combinations; (3) a substantial gap to upper-bound performance persists, indicating that MMDG remains far from solved; (4) trimodal fusion does not consistently outperform the strongest bimodal configurations; and (5) all evaluated methods exhibit significant degradation under corruption and missing-modality scenarios, with some methods further compromising model trustworthiness.

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