Dual-branch Graph Domain Adaptation for Cross-scenario Multi-modal Emotion Recognition

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Auteurs principaux: Shou, Yuntao, Zhou, Jun, Meng, Tao, Ai, Wei, Li, Keqin
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author Shou, Yuntao
Zhou, Jun
Meng, Tao
Ai, Wei
Li, Keqin
author_facet Shou, Yuntao
Zhou, Jun
Meng, Tao
Ai, Wei
Li, Keqin
contents Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) aims to predict speakers' emotional states in multi-turn dialogues through text, audio, and visual cues. In real-world settings, conversation scenarios differ significantly in speakers, topics, styles, and noise levels. Existing MERC methods generally neglect these cross-scenario variations, limiting their ability to transfer models trained on a source domain to unseen target domains. To address this issue, we propose a Dual-branch Graph Domain Adaptation framework (DGDA) for multimodal emotion recognition under cross-scenario conditions. We first construct an emotion interaction graph to characterize complex emotional dependencies among utterances. A dual-branch encoder, consisting of a hypergraph neural network (HGNN) and a path neural network (PathNN), is then designed to explicitly model multivariate relationships and implicitly capture global dependencies. To enable out-of-domain generalization, a domain adversarial discriminator is introduced to learn invariant representations across domains. Furthermore, a regularization loss is incorporated to suppress the negative influence of noisy labels. To the best of our knowledge, DGDA is the first MERC framework that jointly addresses domain shift and label noise. Theoretical analysis provides tighter generalization bounds, and extensive experiments on IEMOCAP and MELD demonstrate that DGDA consistently outperforms strong baselines and better adapts to cross-scenario conversations. Our code is available at https://github.com/Xudmm1239439/DGDA-Net.
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spellingShingle Dual-branch Graph Domain Adaptation for Cross-scenario Multi-modal Emotion Recognition
Shou, Yuntao
Zhou, Jun
Meng, Tao
Ai, Wei
Li, Keqin
Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) aims to predict speakers' emotional states in multi-turn dialogues through text, audio, and visual cues. In real-world settings, conversation scenarios differ significantly in speakers, topics, styles, and noise levels. Existing MERC methods generally neglect these cross-scenario variations, limiting their ability to transfer models trained on a source domain to unseen target domains. To address this issue, we propose a Dual-branch Graph Domain Adaptation framework (DGDA) for multimodal emotion recognition under cross-scenario conditions. We first construct an emotion interaction graph to characterize complex emotional dependencies among utterances. A dual-branch encoder, consisting of a hypergraph neural network (HGNN) and a path neural network (PathNN), is then designed to explicitly model multivariate relationships and implicitly capture global dependencies. To enable out-of-domain generalization, a domain adversarial discriminator is introduced to learn invariant representations across domains. Furthermore, a regularization loss is incorporated to suppress the negative influence of noisy labels. To the best of our knowledge, DGDA is the first MERC framework that jointly addresses domain shift and label noise. Theoretical analysis provides tighter generalization bounds, and extensive experiments on IEMOCAP and MELD demonstrate that DGDA consistently outperforms strong baselines and better adapts to cross-scenario conversations. Our code is available at https://github.com/Xudmm1239439/DGDA-Net.
title Dual-branch Graph Domain Adaptation for Cross-scenario Multi-modal Emotion Recognition
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26840