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Progressive Representation Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Modalities

arXiv cs.CV / 3/11/2026

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  • Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to infer human emotions by combining textual, acoustic, and visual data but often struggles when some modalities are missing due to noise, hardware failures, or privacy issues.
  • The paper introduces PRLF, a Progressive Representation Learning Framework that handles incomplete modality data by dynamically assessing the reliability of each modality and progressively aligning less reliable modalities to the dominant one.
  • PRLF features an Adaptive Modality Reliability Estimator (AMRE) to quantify modality reliability based on recognition confidence and Fisher information, and a Progressive Interaction module to improve cross-modal consistency while reducing noise.
  • Experiments on datasets CMU-MOSI, CMU-MOSEI, and SIMS show that PRLF outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in scenarios where some modalities are missing, proving its robustness and generalization ability.
  • This work addresses a critical gap in real-world MSA applications by allowing effective sentiment analysis despite incomplete multimodal data inputs.

Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

arXiv:2603.09111 (cs)
[Submitted on 10 Mar 2026]

Title:Progressive Representation Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Modalities

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Abstract:Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) seeks to infer human emotions by integrating textual, acoustic, and visual cues. However, existing approaches often rely on all modalities are completeness, whereas real-world applications frequently encounter noise, hardware failures, or privacy restrictions that result in missing modalities. There exists a significant feature misalignment between incomplete and complete modalities, and directly fusing them may even distort the well-learned representations of the intact modalities. To this end, we propose PRLF, a Progressive Representation Learning Framework designed for MSA under uncertain missing-modality conditions. PRLF introduces an Adaptive Modality Reliability Estimator (AMRE), which dynamically quantifies the reliability of each modality using recognition confidence and Fisher information to determine the dominant modality. In addition, the Progressive Interaction (ProgInteract) module iteratively aligns the other modalities with the dominant one, thereby enhancing cross-modal consistency while suppressing noise. Extensive experiments on CMU-MOSI, CMU-MOSEI, and SIMS verify that PRLF outperforms state-of-the-art methods across both inter- and intra-modality missing scenarios, demonstrating its robustness and generalization capability.
Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.09111 [cs.CV]
  (or arXiv:2603.09111v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.09111
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From: Jindi Bao [view email]
[v1] Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:45:02 UTC (378 KB)
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