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LongMoE: Longitudinal Multimodal Learning via Trajectory-Aware Mixture-of-Experts

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keywords multimodal learninglongitudinal datamixture of expertsmodality missingnessclinical predictiondisease trajectoryattention mechanismsimputation
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The pith

LongMoE routes multimodal clinical visits through context-conditioned experts to handle both missing data and disease progression over time.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces LongMoE as a single framework that tackles two separate problems in clinical multimodal data: arbitrary missing modalities at individual visits and the dependence of diagnosis on a patient's changing trajectory across irregular visits. Prior work either drops temporal context when imputing missing inputs or assumes full modality sets are always present, both of which limit real-world use. LongMoE adds a context-aware imputation step, an attentional tokenizer that extracts frequency patterns from uneven time sequences, a trajectory encoder, and sparse MoE layers whose expert choice is conditioned on the available context. Experiments across three clinical datasets show the combined system stays accurate when modalities are absent or weak yet matches strong baselines when every modality is supplied.

Core claim

LongMoE jointly addresses modality missingness and longitudinal dynamics via context-aware imputation, attentional tokenization, trajectory-aware encoding, and context-conditioned Sparse MoE routing, improving robustness under missing or weak contemporaneous modalities while remaining competitive in full-modality settings.

What carries the argument

Context-conditioned Sparse MoE routing inside a trajectory-aware encoder that selects patient-specific experts based on the observed multimodal context at each visit.

If this is right

  • Predictions remain stable even when imaging, text, or lab values are absent at some visits.
  • Temporal frequency patterns captured by attentional tokenization improve modeling of irregular visit schedules.
  • Patient-specific expert selection via context-conditioned routing adapts to individual disease trajectories.
  • The same architecture works without retraining when all modalities become available.
  • The approach supplies a unified starting point for other longitudinal multimodal clinical tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same routing logic could be tested on non-clinical longitudinal sequences such as wearable sensor streams with dropouts.
  • If the frequency-domain tokenization proves decisive, simpler periodic imputation baselines might be revisited.
  • Deployment would require checking whether the context-conditioned router generalizes to new hospitals with different missingness patterns.
  • Extending the trajectory encoder to output uncertainty estimates could turn the model into a decision-support tool that flags when missing data reduces reliability.

Load-bearing premise

The four modules can be stacked without creating new biases or needing complete modality records during training.

What would settle it

A controlled ablation on ADNI or MIMIC-IV in which modality dropout rates are increased visit-by-visit while measuring whether the combined model loses its reported robustness advantage over separate missing-modality and longitudinal baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.09907 by Maxx Richard Rahman, Prakhar Kumar, Wolfgang Maass.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the LONGMOE architecture, which processes a patient’s longitudinal visit sequence through four sequential modules:(i) modality-specific embedding, (ii) a modality imputation and tokenization, (iii) a trajectory-aware longitudinal modeling, and (iv) a context-aware MoE routing. in AD but requires complete modality observations at every visit, rendering it unable to exploit partially observed pat… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Left: Expert routing distribution stratified by disease stage for shared and individual experts. Right: Modality combination activation ratio per expert. Robustness under Missing Modalities [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Missing-modality robustness curves (AUC-ROC) for all the datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Missing-modality robustness curves (Accuracy) for all the datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Missing-modality robustness curves (F1-score) for all the datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Expert specialization analysis on OASIS-3. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Expert specialization analysis on MIMIC-IV. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_7.png] view at source ↗
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Multimodal clinical learning is increasingly important for integrating diverse patient data, including imaging, text, and personalised health records. However, it faces two fundamental challenges: i) modality missingness, where arbitrary subsets of modalities are unavailable at a given patient visit, ii) longitudinal dynamics, where the diagnostic significance of an observation depends on the patient's evolving disease trajectory over time. Existing methods address these challenges in isolation: missing-modality frameworks treat each visit as an independent static snapshot and discard temporal context, while longitudinal models often assume complete modality availability and degrade under systematic modality incompleteness. We propose LongMoE (Longitudinal Mixture-of-Experts), the unified framework to jointly address both challenges. LongMoE combines a context-aware imputation module with an attentional tokenization module that captures frequency-domain temporal patterns across irregular visit sequences, a trajectory-aware encoder for modeling disease progression, and context-conditioned Sparse MoE routing for patient-specific expert selection. Experiments on ADNI, OASIS-3, and MIMIC-IV show that LongMoE improves robustness under missing or weak contemporaneous modalities and remains competitive in full-modality settings, establishing a strong foundation for longitudinally-aware multimodal clinical learning.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes LongMoE, a unified framework for longitudinal multimodal clinical learning that jointly addresses modality missingness and longitudinal dynamics. It integrates a context-aware imputation module, an attentional tokenization module capturing frequency-domain temporal patterns across irregular visits, a trajectory-aware encoder for disease progression, and context-conditioned Sparse MoE routing for patient-specific expert selection. Experiments on ADNI, OASIS-3, and MIMIC-IV are claimed to show improved robustness under missing or weak modalities while remaining competitive in full-modality settings.

Significance. If the results hold and the modules can be trained without hidden reliance on complete-modality trajectories, the work would offer a meaningful unification of two previously isolated challenges in clinical multimodal learning, enabling more practical use of incomplete longitudinal patient data.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / §3] Abstract and §3 (Method): The claim that context-aware imputation, attentional tokenization, trajectory-aware encoding, and context-conditioned Sparse MoE routing can be jointly trained and deployed without requiring complete-modality examples is unsupported by any mechanism details. It remains unclear how imputation outputs are fed into MoE routing or whether the routing loss or expert selection implicitly depends on at least one fully-observed visit per trajectory; this directly undermines the robustness claim under arbitrary missingness.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments): No description is given of how missingness patterns are simulated during training or testing, nor are ablation results or error bars reported for the individual modules or overall gains; without these, the quantitative improvements cannot be verified as load-bearing evidence for the central claim.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'personalised health records' is used without specifying the exact set of modalities (imaging, text, EHR fields) employed in the three datasets.

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments on our manuscript. We respond to each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / §3] Abstract and §3 (Method): The claim that context-aware imputation, attentional tokenization, trajectory-aware encoding, and context-conditioned Sparse MoE routing can be jointly trained and deployed without requiring complete-modality examples is unsupported by any mechanism details. It remains unclear how imputation outputs are fed into MoE routing or whether the routing loss or expert selection implicitly depends on at least one fully-observed visit per trajectory; this directly undermines the robustness claim under arbitrary missingness.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the integration flow between modules could be described more explicitly. The method section outlines context-aware imputation operating on longitudinal context from available modalities, with outputs tokenized and routed via context-conditioned MoE that depends only on observed/imputed features. To strengthen this, we will revise §3 with a detailed forward-pass description, pseudocode, and diagram confirming no requirement for complete-modality visits during training or inference. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): No description is given of how missingness patterns are simulated during training or testing, nor are ablation results or error bars reported for the individual modules or overall gains; without these, the quantitative improvements cannot be verified as load-bearing evidence for the central claim.

    Authors: We agree that these experimental details are insufficient in the current version. The revised manuscript will expand §4 to specify the missingness simulation procedure (random modality dropout per visit), include ablations for each proposed module, and report error bars (mean ± std over multiple seeds) for all metrics. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The provided abstract and description present LongMoE as a proposed architecture combining four modules (context-aware imputation, attentional tokenization, trajectory-aware encoder, context-conditioned Sparse MoE routing) evaluated empirically on ADNI, OASIS-3, and MIMIC-IV. No equations, parameter-fitting procedures, self-citations, or uniqueness theorems are referenced that would reduce any claimed prediction or result to its inputs by construction. The central claims rest on empirical robustness rather than a closed mathematical derivation, so the work is self-contained against external benchmarks with no load-bearing circular steps.

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