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ModalShare optimizes bandwidth for multimodal split learning

Researchers have developed ModalShare, a novel system for optimizing bandwidth allocation in multimodal split learning. This approach dynamically assigns bandwidth to different modalities based on their contribution to the final prediction, rather than an equal distribution. ModalShare uses Shapley contribution scores computed by the server to determine modality-specific keep-ratios, improving accuracy by up to 15.4 percentage points on datasets like CREMA-D and MVSA at matched payload levels. AI

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ModalShare optimizes bandwidth for multimodal split learning

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Iason Ofeidis, Leandros Tassiulas ·

    Contribution-Aware Bandwidth Allocation for Multimodal Split Learning

    arXiv:2609.01406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal models are increasingly the default option for perception at the network edge, yet they are trained almost entirely in the datacenter, because a client holding several sensor streams cannot host an encoder per modality. S…