Unsupervised Learning for Missing Modalities in Multimodal Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15743v1
• Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:04:33 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Learning for Missing Modalities in Multimodal Learning
• Abstract summary: Unsupervised Learning for Missing Modalities in Multi-Modal Learning (UL4M4) is a flexible framework that imputes missing feature embeddings in a task-independent manner before supervised prediction.<n> Cluster centers guide an iterative greedy imputation process for any missing modalities during training or inference.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper addresses the missing-modality challenge in multi-modal learning by introducing Unsupervised Learning for Missing Modalities in Multi-Modal Learning (UL4M4), a flexible framework that imputes missing feature embeddings in a task-independent manner before supervised prediction. We propose modality-specific normalization and a novel partial-modality distance metric to enable fair clustering of incomplete observations, capturing cross-modal structures while preserving scale-invariance across varying dimensionalities and modality counts. Cluster centers from this unsupervised stage guide an iterative greedy imputation process for any missing modalities during training or inference, supporting arbitrary numbers of modalities and arbitrary missing patterns per sample. The imputation module is lightweight, uses frozen encoders, and decouples from the downstream task, allowing easy integration with any fusion/prediction architecture. Extensive experiments under diverse and highly incomplete regimes demonstrate UL4M4's robustness, achieving, to the best of our knowledge, the first consistent F1-Micro scores above 0.7 on challenging missing configurations even when more than 50\% of modality slots are missing. Results are also stable across cluster sizes and significantly outperform state-of-the-art baselines. Code is available here: https://github.com/h-ismkhan/Multimodal-Learning-with-Missing-Modalities-via-Unsupervised-Learning.

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