arXiv Machine Learning

ConsMSA: Semantic Distribution Consistency Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 25

SemMSA: Latent Semantic-Aided Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Data

SemMSA introduces a latent semantic‑aided framework for multimodal sentiment analysis that leverages large language models to generate rich sentiment‑relevant semantics. The method employs Cross‑modal Semantic Refinement (CSR) to fuse visual, acoustic, and language features in a frozen LLM embedding space, and Cross‑modal Spectral Alignment (CSA) to align these refined semantics with all modalities via spectral enhancement of kernel Gram matrices. Experiments on SIMS, MOSI, and MOSEI benchmarks show that SemMSA achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance.

By Wenhao Li, Zhibin Wu, Chong Xiao, Qiangchang Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 29

Reliability-aware Cross-sample Enhancement for Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Reliability-aware Cross-sample Enhancement (RCE) is a framework for multimodal sentiment analysis that tackles noise and missing modalities by first applying an adaptive variational information bottleneck to compress unreliable modality information. It then retrieves high‑confidence, semantically consistent neighbors from a large candidate pool to enrich current representations, and finally fuses cross‑modal interactions through a multilevel reliability‑aware mechanism. Experiments show RCE consistently outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods in full, noisy, and missing‑modality scenarios.

By Menghua Jiang, Haokai Gao, Xiangui Kang, Haifeng Hu, Sijie Mai
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

Text-Anchored Modality Experts with Uncertainty-Guided Routing for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

The paper introduces TAME, a Text‑Anchored Modality Experts framework that treats language as a fixed, always‑active expert and routes audio‑textual and video‑textual cross‑modal branches as dynamic auxiliary experts. It incorporates lightweight Prophet Heads to estimate sample‑level uncertainty for each modality, guiding a reliability‑aware routing mechanism for expert aggregation. Experiments on CMU‑MOSI, CMU‑MOSEI, and CH‑SIMS show that TAME achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance while reducing parameters by up to 78.7% and FLOPs by up to 41.2% compared to a mixture‑of‑experts baseline.

By Xiaohua Huang, Bingrui Lei, Xiuyan hao, Ling Zhou, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Guoying Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Modalities via Semantic-aware Completeness based Reconstruction

The paper presents a method for robust multimodal sentiment analysis that handles incomplete or noisy modalities. It introduces a completeness estimation technique to measure how much sentiment-relevant information remains in partial data, guiding the reconstruction of missing semantics. A joint training strategy stabilizes multi-task learning for sentiment prediction and completeness estimation, and experiments on three benchmark datasets show improved semantic reconstruction and sentiment accuracy.

By Han-Jun Choi, Byunggill Joe, Saim Shin, Jin Yea Jang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

I$^2$-KAN: Interpretable Intra- and Inter-Modal Multi-Pathway Representation Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

I$^2$-KAN is a new multimodal sentiment analysis framework that separates intra‑modal and pairwise inter‑modal information into distinct pathways. Each pathway is refined by a Task‑Decoupled Linear‑Gated Denoising Bottleneck and fused using a structured Kolmogorov‑Arnold Network, enabling explicit pathway associations and multi‑level interpretation. Experiments on CMU‑MOSI, CMU‑MOSEI, and CH‑SIMS v2 show strong performance and reveal that a modality’s standalone predictive power does not always reflect its interaction‑conditioned utility.

By Xiaoting Xie, Feng Qiao, Xianwei Zhang, Hailong Chen, Kaiwen Zheng, Joemon M. Jose, Xuri Ge, Yujun Li
arXiv Computation and Language
5d ago

Uncertainty-Guided Multimodal Consensus for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

The paper introduces Uncertainty‑Guided Multimodal Consensus (UMC) for multimodal sentiment analysis. UMC first recovers continuous unimodal pseudo‑labels using Continuous Prototype‑Guided Label Recovery (CPLR), which blends heteroscedastic predictions with ordered sentiment prototypes and refines them with confidence and label conflict. It then forms a reliability‑aware consensus across modalities via Reliability and Precision Consensus (RPC), which estimates sample‑dependent modality reliability from predictive statistics and cross‑modal disagreement and combines it with predictive precision through a closed‑form solver. Experiments on four public MSA datasets show that UMC outperforms existing methods.

By Guowei Zhong, Junjie Li, Huaiyu Zhu, Ruohong Huan, Yun Pan