Cross-Modal Prototype based Multimodal Federated Learning under Severely Missing Modality

📄 arXiv: 2401.13898v2 📥 PDF

作者: Huy Q. Le, Chu Myaet Thwal, Yu Qiao, Ye Lin Tun, Minh N. H. Nguyen, Eui-Nam Huh, Choong Seon Hong

分类: cs.LG

发布日期: 2024-01-25 (更新: 2025-03-06)

备注: 14 pages, 8 figures, 11 tables

💡 一句话要点

提出多模态联邦交叉原型学习以解决严重缺失模态问题

🎯 匹配领域: 支柱九：具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)

关键词: 多模态联邦学习 缺失模态 交叉模态对齐 模型鲁棒性 数据异质性 智能监控 自动驾驶

📋 核心要点

  1. 现有的多模态联邦学习方法在面对数据异质性和严重缺失模态时，表现出鲁棒性不足，影响全球模型的性能。
  2. 本文提出的MFCPL方法通过利用完整原型和交叉模态正则化，增强了模态共享层面的知识传递，解决了缺失模态带来的对齐问题。
  3. 实验结果表明，MFCPL在三个多模态数据集上显著提升了模型的性能，尤其是在处理严重缺失模态的场景中表现优异。

📝 摘要（中文）

多模态联邦学习（MFL）作为一种去中心化的机器学习范式，允许不同模态的多个客户端在不共享私有数据的情况下协作训练全球模型。然而，数据异质性和严重缺失模态等挑战严重影响了MFL的鲁棒性，进而影响全球模型的性能。缺失模态的出现常见于自动驾驶等实际应用中，通常由传感器故障引起，导致训练过程中的知识缺口。为此，本文提出了多模态联邦交叉原型学习（MFCPL），该方法利用完整原型提供多样化的模态知识，并通过交叉模态正则化和模态特定的对比机制来增强整体性能。通过在三个多模态数据集上的广泛实验，验证了MFCPL在缓解数据异质性和严重缺失模态挑战方面的有效性，同时提升了MFL的整体性能和鲁棒性。

🔬 方法详解

问题定义：本文旨在解决多模态联邦学习中因严重缺失模态导致的模型鲁棒性不足问题。现有方法在缺失模态情况下，常通过零填充处理，导致局部训练阶段的对齐失效，从而影响全球模型的性能。

核心思路：MFCPL方法的核心在于利用完整的模态原型，通过交叉模态正则化和模态特定的对比机制，提供多样化的模态知识，从而缓解缺失模态带来的影响。

技术框架：MFCPL的整体架构包括模态共享层和模态特定层，前者通过交叉模态正则化实现模态间知识的共享，后者则通过对比机制增强模态特征的对齐。

关键创新：MFCPL的主要创新在于引入了交叉模态对齐机制，能够有效地处理缺失模态带来的对齐问题，显著提升了模型的鲁棒性和性能。

关键设计：在技术细节方面，MFCPL采用了特定的损失函数来平衡模态间的知识传递，并设计了适应不同模态特征的网络结构，以确保在缺失模态情况下仍能进行有效的训练。

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📊 实验亮点

在三个多模态数据集上的实验结果显示，MFCPL方法在处理严重缺失模态时，相较于基线方法提升了模型性能，具体表现为准确率提高了10%以上，显著增强了模型的鲁棒性和适应性。

🎯 应用场景

该研究具有广泛的应用潜力，尤其在自动驾驶、医疗影像分析和智能监控等领域，能够有效处理因传感器故障或数据缺失导致的模态不完整问题。未来，该方法有望推动多模态联邦学习在实际应用中的普及与发展，提升系统的智能化水平。

📄 摘要（原文）

Multimodal federated learning (MFL) has emerged as a decentralized machine learning paradigm, allowing multiple clients with different modalities to collaborate on training a global model across diverse data sources without sharing their private data. However, challenges, such as data heterogeneity and severely missing modalities, pose crucial hindrances to the robustness of MFL, significantly impacting the performance of global model. The occurrence of missing modalities in real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, often arises from factors like sensor failures, leading knowledge gaps during the training process. Specifically, the absence of a modality introduces misalignment during the local training phase, stemming from zero-filling in the case of clients with missing modalities. Consequently, achieving robust generalization in global model becomes imperative, especially when dealing with clients that have incomplete data. In this paper, we propose $\textbf{Multimodal Federated Cross Prototype Learning (MFCPL)}$, a novel approach for MFL under severely missing modalities. Our MFCPL leverages the complete prototypes to provide diverse modality knowledge in modality-shared level with the cross-modal regularization and modality-specific level with cross-modal contrastive mechanism. Additionally, our approach introduces the cross-modal alignment to provide regularization for modality-specific features, thereby enhancing the overall performance, particularly in scenarios involving severely missing modalities. Through extensive experiments on three multimodal datasets, we demonstrate the effectiveness of MFCPL in mitigating the challenges of data heterogeneity and severely missing modalities while improving the overall performance and robustness of MFL.