arXiv AI

Expert-Guided Multimodal Fusion for Unified Emotion and Sentiment Analysis

arXiv:2601. 07565v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal emotion understanding requires the integration of heterogeneous data sources, including text, audio, and visual modalities, while simultaneously addressing discrete emotion recognition and continuous sentiment analysis.

arXiv AI
Sep 25

Cross-Modal Emotion Understanding: A Transformer-GAT Approach for Dialogue Emotion Recognition

Cross-Modal Emotion Understanding: A Transformer-GAT Approach for Dialogue Emotion Recognition proposes a hybrid framework that combines a Transformer and a Graph Attention Network to capture both global semantic information and fine-grained relationships between modalities. The model is evaluated on the IEMOCAP and MELD datasets, achieving weighted F1 scores of 72.45% and 77.37%, respectively, and surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods. These results suggest that integrating multimodal features with balanced global and local context modeling can provide deeper emotional insights for dialogue emotion recognition.

By Jiaqi Qiao, Yifan Lyu, Xiujuan Xu
arXiv AI
Sep 10

MVFA: A Multi-View Text-Guided Multimodal Fusion LLM Adapter for Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition

arXiv:2609.06188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition in conversations demand effective modeling of heterogeneous interactions across textual, acoustic...

By Pengfei Shao, Jisheng Dang, Jiawen Fang, Ning Liu, Wencan Zhang, Bimei Wang, Jingwen Zhao, Jianhuang Lai, Qi Tian, Tat-Seng Chua
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 17

Divide and Conquer: Mixture-of-Bottleneck Experts in Informative Ordinal Space for Video-based Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

The paper proposes a Mixture-of-Bottleneck (MoB) framework for video-based multimodal sentiment analysis that treats sentiment as an ordinal regression problem, splitting it into polarity recognition and intensity prediction. MoB assigns modality‑specific latent experts to each sub‑task, learns compact, task‑relevant representations via an information bottleneck, and fuses these experts with a multimodal bottleneck routing module and hard mining strategy. Experiments on four datasets and language models demonstrate that MoB captures fine‑grained intra‑ and inter‑modal dynamics, improving performance and enabling more trustworthy localization of nuanced sentiment signals.

By Ronghao Lin, Qiaolin He, Zefeng Lu, Yichu Liu, Li Huang, Sijie Mai, Haifeng Hu, Yap-peng Tan
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

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 AI
Sep 16

Affect-Prototype Guided Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Incomplete Multi-modal Emotion Recognition

The paper introduces Affect-Prototype Guided Fusion (APCF), a framework for open‑vocabulary multimodal emotion recognition that handles incomplete and unsynchronized modal data. APCF builds an affect‑prototype library to model how different emotions contribute across modalities, enabling dynamic fusion of available features. The fused representations are then decoded by an LLM to generate open‑vocabulary emotion labels, achieving superior performance on OV‑MERD+ and MER‑FG datasets compared to existing methods.

By Yichi Zhang, Shenyue Wang, Jing Luo, Chunyang Yu, Xinyu Yang
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Enhancing Multimodal Emotion Recognition via Multi-Feature Encoding and Attention-Based Fusion

The paper introduces a multimodal emotion recognition framework that combines audio and visual feature extraction with an attention-based fusion strategy. Audio features include Wav2Vec2 embeddings, MFCCs, and statistical acoustic descriptors, fused via a BiLSTM, while video features are extracted using a ResNet50-BiLSTM architecture. A multi-head attention mechanism fuses these modalities, and experiments on MELD and IEMOCAP show significant accuracy and robustness gains, especially in unbalanced data settings.

By Xu Lin, Ke Wang, Hui Kang, Xinying Wang