Summary of Exploring Multi-modality Dynamics: Insights and Challenges in Multimodal Fusion For Biomedical Tasks, by Laura Wenderoth
Exploring Multi-Modality Dynamics: Insights and Challenges in Multimodal Fusion for Biomedical Tasks
by Laura Wenderoth
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates a multi-modal fusion approach called MM dynamics for biomedical classification tasks. The algorithm integrates feature-level and modality-level informativeness to dynamically fuse modalities, improving classification performance. However, the authors find limitations in replicating and extending the results of MM dynamics. They discover that feature informativeness improves performance and explainability, while modality informativeness does not provide significant advantages and can lead to performance degradation. The paper extends feature informativeness to image data, developing Image MM dynamics with promising qualitative results, although it did not outperform baseline methods quantitatively. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at a way to combine different types of information (images, sounds, etc.) to make better predictions about medical conditions. The method, called MM dynamics, tries to figure out which parts of the data are most important for making good predictions. Unfortunately, it turns out that this approach has some limitations and doesn’t always work as well as expected. The researchers found that focusing on the most important features is what really helps make good predictions, while trying to combine different types of information doesn’t always help. They did try to apply this idea to images specifically and saw some promising results, but it didn’t quite beat the standard ways of doing things. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Multi modal
