Mind the Divergence: Divergence-Guided Reliability-Aware Fusion and Adaptive LLM Prompting for Conversational Emotion Recognition
arXiv:2611.08860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (MERC) integrates textual, acoustic, and visual cues to identify utterance-level emotions. However, existing approaches generally do not explicitly adapt multimodal processing to the degree of inter-modal predictive disagreement. In real conversations, semantic incongruity, concealed emotion, noisy observations, and ambiguity can affect modality-specific emotional evidence differently, while the reliability of individual modalities varies across samples. Rather than identifying each source of incons