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Unlocking the Power of Multimodal Learning for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Year: 2023
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Emotion recognition in conversation aims to identify the emotions underlying each utterance, and it has great potential in various domains. Human perception of emotions relies on multiple modalities, such as language, vocal tonality, and facial expressions. While many studies have incorporated multimodal information to enhance emotion recognition, the performance of multimodal models often plateaus when additional modalities are added. We demonstrate through experiments that the main reason for this plateau is an imbalanced assignment of gradients across modalities. To address this issue, we propose fine-grained adaptive gradient modulation, a plug-in approach to rebalance the gradients of modalities. Experimental results show that our method improves the performance of all baseline models and outperforms existing plug-in methods.
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4387969701
FWCI: 1.988
Cites: 29
Cited by: 18
Related to: 10