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An Optimization Algorithm for Multimodal Data Alignment

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In the data era, the integration of multiple data types, known as multimodality, has become a key area of interest in the research community. This interest is driven by the goal to develop cutting-edge multimodal models capable of serving as adaptable reasoning engines across a wide range of modalities and domains. Despite the fervent development efforts, the challenge of optimally representing different forms of data within a single unified latent space--a crucial step for enabling effective multimodal reasoning--has not been fully addressed. To bridge this gap, we introduce AlignXpert, an optimization algorithm inspired by Kernel CCA crafted to maximize the similarities between N modalities while imposing some other constraints. This work demonstrates the impact on improving data representation for a variety of reasoning tasks, such as retrieval and classification, underlining the pivotal importance of data representation.