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Approach: They propose a missing modality-based meta-sampling approach for multimodal sentiment analysis with missing modalities . they conduct experiments on IEMOCAP, SIMS and CMU-MOSI datasets .
Outcome: The proposed method significantly improves on existing models with a mixture of missing modalities.

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