DiGTF: A Difference-Guided Two-Stage Fusion Framework for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
摘要
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to understand human emotions by combining information from different modalities. Despite recent advances, existing methods often struggle to effectively leverage task-relevant signals from non-verbal modalities, particularly in scenarios where textual semantics are ambiguous or incomplete. To address this issue, we propose DiGTF, a Difference-Guided Two-Stage Fusion Framework that enhances textual representations by integrating refined audio and video features. First, we introduce Disentangled Irrelevance Removal (DIR), which employs a dual cross-attention mechanism to disentangle audio-video representations into modality-invariant, sentiment-relevant, and task-irrelevant components, preserving the sentiment-relevant features. Then, we design a two-stage fusion strategy to enhance semantic representations. The first stage, Difference-Guided Fusion (DGF) adaptively incorporates cross-modal differences that align with sentiment cues into the textual features. The second stage, Multi-View Fusion (MVF) leverages a cross-scale attention mechanism to integrate the diverse fused representations and capture complex emotional patterns. Extensive experiments on three benchmark MSA datasets CMU-MOSI, CMU-MOSEI, and CH-SIMS demonstrate that DiGTF achieves outstanding performance.