CADA: A Confidence-Aware Dual-Aspect Fusion Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
摘要
With the rapid growth of social media, multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) has emerged as a critical research area. However, most existing approaches rely on direct fusion strategies that fail to capture fine-grained cross-modal interactions and often disregard the dynamic, context-dependent nature of emotional expression. Additionally, the varying reliability across modalities is frequently overlooked, leading to noisy and suboptimal representations. To address these challenges, we propose CADA, a novel fusion framework inspired by the Valence-Arousal model of emotion. CADA disentangles sentiment into two complementary dimensions: Sentiment Activation (intensity) and Sentiment Orientation (polarity). It leverages a Perceiver Compressor for modality-specific compression and a Multimodal Confidence Processor (MCP) to evaluate and weight modality reliability. Instead of flat fusion, CADA adopts a hierarchical modeling strategy where audio-text interactions capture intensity and text-visual interactions capture polarity, further modulated dynamically to ensure context-aware sentiment understanding. Experiments on CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI demonstrate that CADA achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks.