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Approach: They propose a model for capturing latent modal association for multimodal entity alignment using a self-attention mechanism to enhance salient information while attenuating noise within individual modality embeddings.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves an absolute 3.1% higher Hits@1 score than the sota method.

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