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Early Fusion with Contrastive Learning: A Lightweight Alternative for Multi-modal Classification

2026 · International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · pp. 9129-9138 · 0 citations · 34 references
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This work proposes a simple yet effective lightweight framework explicitly designed for multimodal classification tasks, utilising the early fusion method combined with a contrastive learning approach, which achieves performance comparable to the most competitive heavyweight state-of-the-art models and even outperforms them.

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