Multimodal Adaptive Expert Selection with Text Routing and Ordinal Prototype Optimization for Sentiment Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30726v1
• Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:59:37 GMT
• Title: Multimodal Adaptive Expert Selection with Text Routing and Ordinal Prototype Optimization for Sentiment Analysis
• Abstract summary: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to decipher complex emotional states by integrating verbal content with non-verbal cues.<n>Recent disentanglement-based approaches have advanced the field, but their potential is hindered by two methodological challenges.<n>We introduce Multimodal Adaptive Expert Selection with Text Routing and Ordinal prototype optimization (MAESTRO)<n>Unlike static fusion, this module utilizes linguistic context as a routing signal to dynamically activate specific audio-visual experts.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) is a fundamental component of affective computing that aims to decipher complex emotional states by integrating verbal content with non-verbal cues including vocal intonation and facial micro-expressions. While recent disentanglement-based approaches have advanced the field, their potential is hindered by two methodological challenges. First, static computation graphs process all samples indiscriminately regardless of semantic complexity, which leads to suboptimal representation for diverse emotional expressions and contextual scenarios. Second, generic contrastive objectives often neglect the intrinsic ordinal hierarchy of sentiment intensities. To systematically address these limitations, we introduce Multimodal Adaptive Expert Selection with Text Routing and Ordinal prototype optimization (MAESTRO), a novel framework designed to dynamically orchestrate and refine multimodal representations. Drawing inspiration from an orchestra conductor, we design a Text-Guided Hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) mechanism. Unlike static fusion, this module utilizes linguistic context as a routing signal to dynamically activate specific audio-visual experts, thereby resolving cross-modal ambiguity through adaptive feature enhancement. Furthermore, to capture fine-grained sentiment gradations, we propose an Ordinal-aware Prototype Contrastive Learning (O-PCL). By incorporating distance-based penalties into the prototype learning objective, O-PCL enforces a structured latent space that preserves the natural order of emotion. Extensive experiments on the CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI benchmarks demonstrate that MAESTRO achieves state-of-the-art performance, and qualitative analysis further confirms the interpretability of our dynamic routing paradigm.

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