arxivcs.AI2026-07-09
SHAP-Weighted Cross-Modal Expert Fusion for Emotion and Sentiment Recognition: Evidence and Limits
Adis Alihodzic, Selma Skopljakovic Hubljar
Multimodal emotion and sentiment recognition is commonly addressed by early fusion, which concatenates modalities before classification, or late fusion, which combines independently trained unimodal predictors. Early fusion can be accurate but monolithic, while late fusion is mod…