SURE: Synergistic Uncertainty-aware Reasoning for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations

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Auteurs principaux: Cai, Yiqiang, Wu, Chengyan, Ma, Bolei, Chen, Bo, Xue, Yun, Hirschberg, Julia, Gong, Ziwei
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author Cai, Yiqiang
Wu, Chengyan
Ma, Bolei
Chen, Bo
Xue, Yun
Hirschberg, Julia
Gong, Ziwei
author_facet Cai, Yiqiang
Wu, Chengyan
Ma, Bolei
Chen, Bo
Xue, Yun
Hirschberg, Julia
Gong, Ziwei
contents Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (MERC) requires integrating multimodal signals while being robust to noise and modeling contextual reasoning. Existing approaches often emphasize fusion but overlook uncertainty in noisy features and fine-grained reasoning. We propose SURE (Synergistic Uncertainty-aware REasoning) for MERC, a framework that improves robustness and contextual modeling. SURE consists of three components: an Uncertainty-Aware Mixture-of-Experts module to handle modality-specific noise, an Iterative Reasoning module for multi-turn reasoning over context, and a Transformer Gate module to capture intra- and inter-modal interactions. Experiments on benchmark MERC datasets show that SURE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, demonstrating its effectiveness in robust multimodal reasoning. These results highlight the importance of uncertainty modeling and iterative reasoning in advancing emotion recognition in conversational settings.
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spellingShingle SURE: Synergistic Uncertainty-aware Reasoning for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations
Cai, Yiqiang
Wu, Chengyan
Ma, Bolei
Chen, Bo
Xue, Yun
Hirschberg, Julia
Gong, Ziwei
Computation and Language
Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (MERC) requires integrating multimodal signals while being robust to noise and modeling contextual reasoning. Existing approaches often emphasize fusion but overlook uncertainty in noisy features and fine-grained reasoning. We propose SURE (Synergistic Uncertainty-aware REasoning) for MERC, a framework that improves robustness and contextual modeling. SURE consists of three components: an Uncertainty-Aware Mixture-of-Experts module to handle modality-specific noise, an Iterative Reasoning module for multi-turn reasoning over context, and a Transformer Gate module to capture intra- and inter-modal interactions. Experiments on benchmark MERC datasets show that SURE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, demonstrating its effectiveness in robust multimodal reasoning. These results highlight the importance of uncertainty modeling and iterative reasoning in advancing emotion recognition in conversational settings.
title SURE: Synergistic Uncertainty-aware Reasoning for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01916