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most citedMultimodal Information Bottleneck: Learning Minimal Sufficient Unimodal and Multimodal Representations

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cs.AI2026

Uncovering Latent Depression Severity for Binary Depression Detection via Advantage-weighting Ranking

Manning Gao, Tingyi Liu, Leheng Zhang +3

Automatic depression detection using audio-visual data faces significant challenges, particularly in disentangling overlapping feature distributions and establishing robust decisio…

eess.AS2026

Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts

Tianrui Wang, Ziyang Ma, Yizhou Peng +26

Evaluating expressive speech remains challenging, as existing methods mainly assess emotional intensity and overlook whether a speech sample is expressively appropriate for its con…

cs.LG2026

Addressing Missing and Noisy Modalities in One Solution: Unified Modality-Quality Framework for Low-quality Multimodal Data

Sijie Mai, Shiqin Han, Haifeng Hu

Multimodal data encountered in real-world scenarios are typically of low quality, with noisy modalities and missing modalities being typical forms that severely hinder model perfor…

cs.LG2026

CyIN: Cyclic Informative Latent Space for Bridging Complete and Incomplete Multimodal Learning

Ronghao Lin, Qiaolin He, Sijie Mai +5

Multimodal machine learning, mimicking the human brain's ability to integrate various modalities has seen rapid growth. Most previous multimodal models are trained on perfectly pai…

cs.AI2026

MissMAC-Bench: Building Solid Benchmark for Missing Modality Issue in Robust Multimodal Affective Computing

Ronghao Lin, Honghao Lu, Ruixing Wu +5

Current Multimodal Affective Computing (MAC) systems heavily rely on the completeness of multiple modalities to accurately understand human's affective state. However, in real-worl…

cs.CV2026

GRCF: Two-Stage Groupwise Ranking and Calibration Framework for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Manning Gao, Leheng Zhang, Shiqin Han +3

Most Multimodal Sentiment Analysis research has focused on point-wise regression. While straightforward, this approach is sensitive to label noise and neglects whether one sample i…

cs.CL2025

Towards Minimal Causal Representations for Human Multimodal Language Understanding

Menghua Jiang, Yuncheng Jiang, Haifeng Hu +1

Human Multimodal Language Understanding (MLU) aims to infer human intentions by integrating related cues from heterogeneous modalities. Existing works predominantly follow a ``lear…

cs.CL2025

Uncertainty-Aware Collaborative System of Large and Small Models for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Shiqin Han, Manning Gao, Menghua Jiang +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have notably enhanced the performance of Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA), yet their massive parameter scale leads to excessive resource…

cs.AI2025

E3RG: Building Explicit Emotion-driven Empathetic Response Generation System with Multimodal Large Language Model

Ronghao Lin, Shuai Shen, Weipeng Hu +5

Multimodal Empathetic Response Generation (MERG) is crucial for building emotionally intelligent human-computer interactions. Although large language models (LLMs) have improved te…

cs.CV2025

Multi-source Multimodal Progressive Domain Adaption for Audio-Visual Deception Detection

Ronghao Lin, Sijie Mai, Ying Zeng +3

This paper presents the winning approach for the 1st MultiModal Deception Detection (MMDD) Challenge at the 1st Workshop on Subtle Visual Computing (SVC). Aiming at the domain shif…

cs.LG2025

Disentangling Bias by Modeling Intra- and Inter-modal Causal Attention for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Menghua Jiang, Yuxia Lin, Baoliang Chen +3

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to understand human emotions by integrating information from multiple modalities, such as text, audio, and visual data. However, existing m…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Meta-Learn Unimodal Signals with Weak Supervision for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Sijie Mai, Yu Zhao, Ying Zeng +2

Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to effectively integrate information from various sources to infer sentiment, where in many cases there are no annotations for unimodal labels. T…

cs.CV2024

End-to-end Semantic-centric Video-based Multimodal Affective Computing

Ronghao Lin, Ying Zeng, Sijie Mai +1

In the pathway toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), understanding human's affection is essential to enhance machine's cognition abilities. For achieving more sensual human…

cs.SD2023★ 2 cited

EE-TTS: Emphatic Expressive TTS with Linguistic Information

Yi Zhong, Chen Zhang, Xule Liu +4

While Current TTS systems perform well in synthesizing high-quality speech, producing highly expressive speech remains a challenge. Emphasis, as a critical factor in determining th…

cs.LG2022

Curriculum Learning Meets Weakly Supervised Modality Correlation Learning

Sijie Mai, Ya Sun, Haifeng Hu

In the field of multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA), a few studies have leveraged the inherent modality correlation information stored in samples for self-supervised learning. Howe…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Relation-dependent Contrastive Learning with Cluster Sampling for Inductive Relation Prediction

Jianfeng Wu, Sijie Mai, Haifeng Hu

Relation prediction is a task designed for knowledge graph completion which aims to predict missing relationships between entities. Recent subgraph-based models for inductive relat…

cs.CL2022★ 22 cited

Multimodal Contrastive Learning via Uni-Modal Coding and Cross-Modal Prediction for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Ronghao Lin, Haifeng Hu

Multimodal representation learning is a challenging task in which previous work mostly focus on either uni-modality pre-training or cross-modality fusion. In fact, we regard modeli…

cs.LG2022★ 167 cited

Multimodal Information Bottleneck: Learning Minimal Sufficient Unimodal and Multimodal Representations

Sijie Mai, Ying Zeng, Haifeng Hu

Learning effective joint embedding for cross-modal data has always been a focus in the field of multimodal machine learning. We argue that during multimodal fusion, the generated m…

cs.AI2021★ 5 cited

Maximum Entropy Population-Based Training for Zero-Shot Human-AI Coordination

Rui Zhao, Jinming Song, Yufeng Yuan +5

We study the problem of training a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent that is collaborative with humans without using any human data. Although such agents can be obtained through se…

cs.LG2021

Which is Making the Contribution: Modulating Unimodal and Cross-modal Dynamics for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Ying Zeng, Sijie Mai, Haifeng Hu

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) draws increasing attention with the availability of multimodal data. The boost in performance of MSA models is mainly hindered by two problems.…

cs.AI2021★ 13 cited

Hybrid Contrastive Learning of Tri-Modal Representation for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Sijie Mai, Ying Zeng, Shuangjia Zheng +1

The wide application of smart devices enables the availability of multimodal data, which can be utilized in many tasks. In the field of multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA), most pr…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Subgraph-aware Few-Shot Inductive Link Prediction via Meta-Learning

Shuangjia Zheng, Sijie Mai, Ya Sun +2

Link prediction for knowledge graphs aims to predict missing connections between entities. Prevailing methods are limited to a transductive setting and hard to process unseen entit…