LLM-Guided Semantic Relational Reasoning for Multimodal Intent Recognition

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Main Authors: Zhou, Qianrui, Xu, Hua, Wang, Yifan, Dong, Xinzhi, Zhang, Hanlei
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Published: 2025
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author Zhou, Qianrui
Xu, Hua
Wang, Yifan
Dong, Xinzhi
Zhang, Hanlei
author_facet Zhou, Qianrui
Xu, Hua
Wang, Yifan
Dong, Xinzhi
Zhang, Hanlei
contents Understanding human intents from multimodal signals is critical for analyzing human behaviors and enhancing human-machine interactions in real-world scenarios. However, existing methods exhibit limitations in their modality-level reliance, constraining relational reasoning over fine-grained semantics for complex intent understanding. This paper proposes a novel LLM-Guided Semantic Relational Reasoning (LGSRR) method, which harnesses the expansive knowledge of large language models (LLMs) to establish semantic foundations that boost smaller models' relational reasoning performance. Specifically, an LLM-based strategy is proposed to extract fine-grained semantics as guidance for subsequent reasoning, driven by a shallow-to-deep Chain-of-Thought (CoT) that autonomously uncovers, describes, and ranks semantic cues by their importance without relying on manually defined priors. Besides, we formally model three fundamental types of semantic relations grounded in logical principles and analyze their nuanced interplay to enable more effective relational reasoning. Extensive experiments on multimodal intent and dialogue act recognition tasks demonstrate LGSRR's superiority over state-of-the-art methods, with consistent performance gains across diverse semantic understanding scenarios. The complete data and code are available at https://github.com/thuiar/LGSRR.
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spellingShingle LLM-Guided Semantic Relational Reasoning for Multimodal Intent Recognition
Zhou, Qianrui
Xu, Hua
Wang, Yifan
Dong, Xinzhi
Zhang, Hanlei
Multimedia
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Understanding human intents from multimodal signals is critical for analyzing human behaviors and enhancing human-machine interactions in real-world scenarios. However, existing methods exhibit limitations in their modality-level reliance, constraining relational reasoning over fine-grained semantics for complex intent understanding. This paper proposes a novel LLM-Guided Semantic Relational Reasoning (LGSRR) method, which harnesses the expansive knowledge of large language models (LLMs) to establish semantic foundations that boost smaller models' relational reasoning performance. Specifically, an LLM-based strategy is proposed to extract fine-grained semantics as guidance for subsequent reasoning, driven by a shallow-to-deep Chain-of-Thought (CoT) that autonomously uncovers, describes, and ranks semantic cues by their importance without relying on manually defined priors. Besides, we formally model three fundamental types of semantic relations grounded in logical principles and analyze their nuanced interplay to enable more effective relational reasoning. Extensive experiments on multimodal intent and dialogue act recognition tasks demonstrate LGSRR's superiority over state-of-the-art methods, with consistent performance gains across diverse semantic understanding scenarios. The complete data and code are available at https://github.com/thuiar/LGSRR.
title LLM-Guided Semantic Relational Reasoning for Multimodal Intent Recognition
topic Multimedia
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01337