Mitigating Inconsistencies in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis under Uncertain Missing Modalities (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies ignore the inconsistency phenomenon of missing modality in multimodal sentiment analysis . neglect of missing modalities may lead to incorrect semantic results . |
| Approach: | They propose an ensemble-based Missing Modality Reconstruction network to detect and recover missing modality features. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is superior to existing methods on CMU-MOSI and IEMOCAP datasets. |
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