@inproceedings{li-li-2025-hne,
title = "t-{HNE}: A Text-guided Hierarchical Noise Eliminator for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis",
author = "Li, Zuocheng and
Li, Lishuang",
editor = "Rambow, Owen and
Wanner, Leo and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Eugenio, Barbara Di and
Schockaert, Steven",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.192/",
pages = "2834--2844",
abstract = "In the Multimodal Sentiment Analysis task, most existing approaches focus on extracting modality-consistent information from raw unimodal data and integrating it into multimodal representations for sentiment classification. However, these methods often assume that all modalities contribute equally to model performance, prioritizing the extraction and enhancement of consistent information, while overlooking the adverse effects of noise caused by modality inconsistency. In contrast to these approaches, this paper introduces a novel approach namely text-guided Hierarchical Noise Eliminator (t-HNE). This model consists of a two-stage denoising phase and a feature recovery phase. Firstly, textual information is injected into both visual and acoustic modalities using an attention mechanism, aiming to reduce intra-modality noise in the visual and acoustic representations. Secondly, it further mitigates inter-modality noise by maximizing the mutual information between textual representations and the respective visual and acoustic representations. Finally, to address the potential loss of modality-invariant information during denoising, the fused multimodal representation is refined through contrastive learning with each unimodal representation except the textual. Extensive experiments conducted on the CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI datasets demonstrate the efficacy of our approach."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T t-HNE: A Text-guided Hierarchical Noise Eliminator for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
%A Li, Zuocheng
%A Li, Lishuang
%Y Rambow, Owen
%Y Wanner, Leo
%Y Apidianaki, Marianna
%Y Al-Khalifa, Hend
%Y Eugenio, Barbara Di
%Y Schockaert, Steven
%S Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
%D 2025
%8 January
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, UAE
%F li-li-2025-hne
%X In the Multimodal Sentiment Analysis task, most existing approaches focus on extracting modality-consistent information from raw unimodal data and integrating it into multimodal representations for sentiment classification. However, these methods often assume that all modalities contribute equally to model performance, prioritizing the extraction and enhancement of consistent information, while overlooking the adverse effects of noise caused by modality inconsistency. In contrast to these approaches, this paper introduces a novel approach namely text-guided Hierarchical Noise Eliminator (t-HNE). This model consists of a two-stage denoising phase and a feature recovery phase. Firstly, textual information is injected into both visual and acoustic modalities using an attention mechanism, aiming to reduce intra-modality noise in the visual and acoustic representations. Secondly, it further mitigates inter-modality noise by maximizing the mutual information between textual representations and the respective visual and acoustic representations. Finally, to address the potential loss of modality-invariant information during denoising, the fused multimodal representation is refined through contrastive learning with each unimodal representation except the textual. Extensive experiments conducted on the CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI datasets demonstrate the efficacy of our approach.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.192/
%P 2834-2844
Markdown (Informal)
[t-HNE: A Text-guided Hierarchical Noise Eliminator for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis](https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.192/) (Li & Li, COLING 2025)
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