2026
Hamiltonian Asymmetric Fusion: One-Way Safe Directed Refinement under Modality Imbalance
ICML 2026poster
Multimodal fusion is commonly implemented via symmetric token interaction, implicitly allowing information to flow in both directions. Under *modality imbalance*---when an auxiliary stream is substantially noisier than a designated primary stream---such symmetry creates a *backflow channel* that inj…