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.
By Jiaqi Qiao, Xinran Li, Yifan Lyu, Xiujuan Xu, Liu Yu
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
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: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:2608. 16201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to predict sentiment polarity and intensity from heterogeneous inputs such as text, audio, and vision.
By Shanshan Lin, Yuesheng Wu, Chao Chen, Yizhe Yang, Zhihao Chen, Zexian Yang, Xiangwen Liao
arXiv:2610.31731v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to predict human sentiments by integrating signals from different modalities such as text, video, and audio. H...
By Pan Wang, Lipeng Ke, Huajun Ying, Pritish Mohapatra, Rohan Sarkar, Suresh Lakhani, Sankar Venkataraman, Jingtong Hu
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:2608. 20019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Incomplete multimodal sentiment analysis has garnered significant attention in recent years.
By Kaixin Xu, NaiJin Liu, Yulin Kang, Tangyue Jin, Zixuan Yu, Wenxi Zhao, Yibei Liu, Qianle Zhang, Yangyang Wu, Mengying Zhu, Meng Xi
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
The survey titled "Tackling Multimodal Learning Challenges with Mixture-of-Expert: A Survey" reviews how Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) frameworks address multimodal learning problems. It categorizes MoE’s contributions into three roles: an efficient multimodal engine that scales without excessive computation, a representation learner that fuses diverse expert knowledge, and an adapter that handles imperfect data such as missing modalities. The paper also highlights research gaps like interpretable routing, expert communication, and lifelong multimodal learning.
By Liangwei Nathan Zheng, Wenhao Liang, Wei Emma Zhang, Lin Yue, Weitong Chen
arXiv:2606. 15694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding complex multimodal content.
By Hangling Xie
Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to predict sentiment polarity and intensity from heterogeneous inputs such as text, audio, and vision. While large language models (LLMs) offer strong semantic...