Rethinking Modality Reliability in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Observations
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arXiv:2608.03611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) integrates text, audio, and vision to infer human affect, yet real-world multimodal observations are often incomplete. Existing methods for incomplete-observation MSA mainly follow two paradigms. Reconstruction-based methods recover missing information from observed modalities, while joint-representation methods learn directly from incomplete inputs. Although effective, these methods usually treat modality reliability only implicitly within representation learning or fusion design rather than modeling it explic
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.03611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) integrates text, audio, and vision to infer human affect, yet real-world multimodal observations are often incomplete.
- Existing methods for incomplete-observation MSA mainly follow two paradigms.
- Reconstruction-based methods recover missing information from observed modalities, while joint-representation methods learn directly from incomplete inputs.
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