Hongzhi Chen
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2026
Not All Modalities at Once: Dynamic Dropout and Bidirectional Fusion for Robust Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion
Jiashun Peng | Fu Zhang | Hongzhi Chen | Jingwei Cheng | Yingsong Ning | Xiaoke Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Jiashun Peng | Fu Zhang | Hongzhi Chen | Jingwei Cheng | Yingsong Ning | Xiaoke Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion (MKGC) aims to infer missing links in multimodal knowledge graphs by leveraging structured triples together with auxiliary modalities such as text and images. Existing MKGC methods typically train with all modalities available, implicitly assuming consistent complementarity; however, this practice often induces modality dependence and modality competition under heterogeneous noise, which can hinder robust multi-modal fusion and limit overall performance.To address these issues, we propose **MDBGF**, a **M**odality **D**ropout and **B**idirectional **G**ated **F**usion framework for MKGC. MDBGF introduces a *dynamic, probability-based modality dropout* schedule. When the dropout is activated, MDBGF drops either the textual or visual modality during training while always preserving the structural information, encouraging the model to reduce over-reliance on any single auxiliary modality and to learn complementary cues under missing-modality conditions. When the dropout is not activated (i.e., all modalities are present), we further design a *bidirectional gated fusion* mechanism that enables mutual modulation between textual and visual modalities, enhancing cross-modal interaction and flexible fusion. In addition, we propose an *adaptive proportional hybrid negative sampling* strategy to strengthen MDBGF’s discriminative ability on hard negatives. Experiments on three benchmarks show that MDBGF consistently outperforms existing baselines and achieves new state-of-the-art results. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/MDBGF-AHNS.