arXiv AI

Modality Agreement- and Conflict-Aware Prototype Hypergraph Learning for Multimodal Intent Understanding

arXiv:2608. 04054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal intent recognition requires understanding not only what textual, acoustic, and visual signals share, but also how they disagree.

arXiv AI
Aug 28

When Text Misleads: Inconsistent-Aware Reasoning for Audio-Grounded Dialogue

The paper introduces ContraTalk, a benchmark that tests whether dialogue models truly use acoustic cues or rely on transcript shortcuts. It formalizes cross‑modal disagreement, creates conflict and consistent QA examples, and proposes an Audio Twin representation to expose acoustic evidence to models. Experiments show that while text‑only LLMs perform well on consistent cases, they falter on conflict cases, and AudioLLMs only partially mitigate this issue.

By Yen-Ju Lu, Yuzhe Wang, Yaohan Guan, Xiluo He, Jiarui Hai, Mingrui Liang, Kaavya Chaparala, Thomas Thebaud, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Najim Dehak, Jesus Villalba
arXiv AI
Sep 24

BiCFlow-MER: Orchestrating Discriminative and Generative Multimodal Emotion Recognition via Conditional Transport

BiCFlow-MER introduces a conditional-flow framework for audio-text multimodal emotion recognition, treating the task as generative evidence transport within a structured emotion space. It disentangles emotion-oriented evidence from speaker style and lexical content, creating a conflict-aware affective condition that guides bidirectional rectified flow to an explicit emotion-space endpoint. The model verifies candidate emotions via adaptive prototype-cloud scoring and backward class-to-condition consistency, achieving superior performance on IEMOCAP, MELD, and the zero-shot CASE benchmark.

By Yanbing Wang, Shenyue Wang, Chunyang Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Aligned but Not Partner-Specific: Distinguishing How Multimodal LLM Agents Succeed in Reference Games Without Human-Like Conventions

arXiv:2606. 08081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repeated reference games test whether interlocutors replace their initially long descriptions with shorter, partner-specific conventions grounded in shared interaction history.

By Po-Ya Angela Wang, Chinmaya Mishra, Asl{\i} \"Ozy\"urek, Paula Rubio-Fern\'andez, Esam Ghaleb