Expert-Guided Multimodal Fusion for Unified Emotion and Sentiment Analysis
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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. We propose EGMF, a unified framework that combines expert-guided multimodal fusion with large language models to achieve superior performance across both tasks. At the core of our framework is a multi-scale expert network, comprising a local expert for capturing subtle emotional nuances, a semantic correlation
Key takeaways
- 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.
- We propose EGMF, a unified framework that combines expert-guided multimodal fusion with large language models to achieve superior performance across both tasks.
- At the core of our framework is a multi-scale expert network, comprising a local expert for capturing subtle emotional nuances, a semantic correlation
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“Expert-Guided Multimodal Fusion for Unified Emotion and Sentiment Analysis” should be evaluated beyond branding and benchmark scores. Its practical importance will emerge in task accuracy, latency, unit cost, safety and integration with real workflows.

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