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Title: A systematic literature review on incomplete multimodal learning: techniques and challenges
Authors: Zhan, Y
Yang, R
You, J
Huang, M
Liu, W
Liu, X
Keywords: incomplete multimodal learning;multimodal learning;modality missing
Issue Date: 26-Feb-2025
Citation: Zhan,Y. et al. (2025) 'A systematic literature review on incomplete multimodal learning: techniques and challenges', Systems Science & Control Engineering, 13 (1), 2467083, pp. 1 - 28. doi: 10.1080/21642583.2025.2467083.
Abstract: Recently, machine learning technologies have been successfully applied across various fields. However, most existing machine learning models rely on unimodal data for information inference, which hinders their ability to generalize to complex application scenarios. This limitation has resulted in the development of multimodal learning, a field that integrates information from different modalities to enhance models' capabilities. However, data often suffers from missing or incomplete modalities in practical applications. This necessitates that models maintain robustness and effectively infer complete information in the presence of missing modalities. The emerging research direction of incomplete multimodal learning (IML) aims to facilitate effective learning from incomplete multimodal training sets, ensuring that models can dynamically and robustly address new instances with arbitrary missing modalities during the testing phase. This paper offers a comprehensive review of methods based on IML. It categorizes existing approaches based on their information sources into two main types: based on internal information and external information methods. These categories are further subdivided into data-based, feature-based, knowledge transfer-based, graph knowledge enhancement-based, and human-in-the-loop-based methods. The paper conducts comparative analyses from two perspectives: comparisons among similar methods and comparisons among different types of methods. Finally, it offers insights into the research trends in IML.
Description: Data availability: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, R.Y., upon reasonable request.
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/30885
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21642583.2025.2467083
Other Identifiers: ORCiD: Weibo Liu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8169-3261
ORCiD: Xiaohui Liu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1589-1267
Article no. 2467083
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