Modalities Should Talk to Each Other: Dual-Stream Multimodal Learning for Long-Horizon Influenza Forecasting
Forecasting long-range influenza-like illness (ILI) matters for public health readiness. Publicly available surveillance datasets typically pair numeric epidemiological signals with textual information that is noisy, loosely structured, only indirectly related to near-term trends, and often lagged relative to the numer...