Fusing pairwise modalities for emotion recognition in conversations

Chunxiao Fan, Jie Lin, Rui Mao, Erik Cambria

Abstract: Highlights•Systematic pairwise management enhances multimodal fusion efficiency.•Designed density loss minimises feature redundancy, improving model robustness.•Demonstrates superior performance in multimodal fusion on IEMOCAP and MELD datasets.•Overcomes challenges associated with intricate inter-modal relationships in ERC.