Multimodal Embedding Models

Humans have a remarkable ability to learn through the integration of multiple sensory inputs, which allows us to form coherent understanding of our environment, make predictions, and acquire new knowledge very efficiently. This multisensory learning begins from early stages of human development and continues to refine over time. Machine learning models are attempting to mimic this process by combining different inputs such as images, text, and audio to improve performance and robustness. However, challenges remain in collecting rich multimodal datasets, designing model architectures for processing multiple modalities, interpreting decisions made by these models, and handling modality imbalance during training. Efforts are ongoing to develop more powerful multimodal models that can interact with data in a more natural way, thus enabling them to be more general reasoning engines.