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arxiv: 2604.06728 · v2 · submitted 2026-04-08 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.MM

URMF: Uncertainty-aware Robust Multimodal Fusion for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

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keywords multimodal sarcasm detectionuncertainty estimationGaussian posteriorsrobust fusioncross-modal attentionincongruity reasoning
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The pith

By representing modalities as Gaussian distributions, URMF dynamically weights text and image inputs according to their estimated uncertainty to better detect sarcasm.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper introduces URMF, a framework that models text, image, and their interaction representations as learnable Gaussian posteriors to capture uncertainty in each. It then uses these uncertainty estimates to adjust how much each modality contributes to the sarcasm prediction, rather than assuming they are equally reliable. This is important because social media posts often have varying levels of noise or irrelevance in text or images, which can obscure the semantic incongruity that signals sarcasm. The method combines cross-attention for fusion with self-attention for reasoning, optimized under a multi-part loss including contrastive learning. Experiments show it beats previous approaches on two benchmarks.

Core claim

URMF injects visual evidence into textual representations via multi-head cross-attention, enhances incongruity reasoning with self-attention in the fused space, models textual, visual, and interaction-aware representations as learnable Gaussian posteriors for uncertainty estimation, and dynamically adjusts modality contributions based on this uncertainty to suppress unreliable evidence, achieving superior performance on the MSD and MMSD2 benchmarks through a unified optimization objective.

What carries the argument

Learnable Gaussian posteriors for textual, visual, and interaction-aware representations that enable uncertainty estimation and dynamic fusion adjustment.

If this is right

  • Improved accuracy in detecting sarcasm by avoiding over-reliance on noisy modalities.
  • Enhanced robustness when applied to real-world social media content with inconsistent modality quality.
  • Potential for better incongruity reasoning by preserving cues from reliable modalities.
  • The unified objective helps align distributions and regularize the model effectively.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This uncertainty modeling approach may generalize to other multimodal tasks where modality reliability varies, such as sentiment analysis or visual question answering.
  • Future work could explore how these Gaussian estimates correlate with human judgments of modality trustworthiness.
  • Applying similar techniques in low-resource settings might reduce the need for high-quality paired data.

Load-bearing premise

The uncertainty values derived from the Gaussian posteriors truly correspond to the actual noise and reliability differences between text and images in sarcastic posts.

What would settle it

A test set where modalities have known noise levels added artificially, showing that the model's uncertainty estimates do not match the injected noise levels or that performance does not improve when using the uncertainty-based weighting.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.06728 by Guoying Zhang, Junjie Mou, Weichen Cheng, Weijia Li, Zhenyu Wang, Zongyou Zhao.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The overall framework of URMF. 2.2 Uncertainty in Multimodal Learning Uncertainty estimation is widely used to improve robustness in deep learning. In multimodal learning, aleatoric uncertainty is important because different modal￾ities often exhibit different noise levels and reliability [10]. Recent studies show that uncertainty can serve as an adaptive signal for robust multimodal fusion, especially und… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: t-SNE visualization of the joint latent representations of major ablation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Multimodal sarcasm detection (MSD) aims to identify sarcastic intent from semantic incongruity between text and image. Although recent methods have improved MSD through cross-modal interaction and incongruity reasoning, most still treat modalities as equally reliable. In real social media posts, however, text and images often differ in noise level and relevance, making deterministic fusion susceptible to noisy evidence and weakened incongruity cues. To address this issue, we propose Uncertainty-aware Robust Multimodal Fusion (URMF), a unified framework for robust MSD. URMF first injects visual evidence into textual representations through multi-head cross-attention, and then applies self-attention in the fused semantic space to enhance incongruity reasoning. It models textual, visual, and interaction-aware representations as learnable Gaussian posteriors to estimate modality-specific uncertainty. Based on the estimated uncertainty, URMF dynamically adjusts modality contributions during fusion to suppress unreliable evidence. We further optimize the model with a unified objective that combines information bottleneck regularization, modality prior regularization, cross-modal distribution alignment, and uncertainty-driven contrastive learning. Experiments on the public MSD and MMSD2 benchmarks show that URMF outperforms representative unimodal, multimodal, and MLLM-based baselines. The results demonstrate that explicit uncertainty modeling can improve both accuracy and robustness in multimodal sarcasm detection.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Uncertainty-aware Robust Multimodal Fusion (URMF) for multimodal sarcasm detection. It injects visual evidence into text via multi-head cross-attention, applies self-attention for incongruity reasoning, models textual/visual/interaction-aware representations as learnable Gaussian posteriors to estimate modality-specific uncertainty, and dynamically adjusts fusion weights to suppress unreliable evidence. Optimization uses a unified objective combining information bottleneck regularization, modality prior regularization, cross-modal distribution alignment, and uncertainty-driven contrastive learning. Experiments on the public MSD and MMSD2 benchmarks report outperformance over unimodal, multimodal, and MLLM baselines.

Significance. If the learned Gaussian uncertainties meaningfully track real modality noise and reliability (rather than serving as auxiliary weights), the framework could advance robust multimodal fusion by better preserving incongruity signals under noisy social-media conditions. The unified objective and explicit Gaussian posterior modeling provide a coherent way to incorporate uncertainty, with potential transfer to other multimodal tasks involving variable evidence quality.

major comments (3)
  1. [Method (Gaussian posterior modeling and uncertainty-driven fusion)] The central claim that dynamic adjustment based on estimated uncertainty suppresses unreliable evidence while preserving incongruity cues rests on the assumption that the learnable Gaussian variances reflect actual modality reliability. No correlation analysis, synthetic-noise injection experiments, or oracle-reliability comparison is described to validate this; without such evidence the variances may function simply as learned weighting parameters.
  2. [Objective function and optimization] The unified objective (information bottleneck + modality prior + cross-modal alignment + uncertainty-driven contrastive loss) is presented without an explicit derivation or ablation showing how each term constrains the variance parameters to correlate with observable noise rather than target-label prediction. This leaves open whether the reported gains on MSD/MMSD2 are attributable to uncertainty awareness or to the additional capacity of the Gaussian parameterization.
  3. [Experiments] Table or figure reporting benchmark results: the abstract states outperformance but provides no numerical margins, standard deviations across runs, or statistical significance tests against the strongest MLLM baselines, making it impossible to judge whether the robustness improvements are practically meaningful.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Method] Notation for the Gaussian parameters (means and variances) should be introduced with explicit equations rather than descriptive text to allow readers to verify the information-bottleneck and alignment terms.
  2. [Abstract] The abstract claims robustness gains but does not define the robustness evaluation protocol (e.g., noise injection levels or out-of-distribution splits) used to support that claim.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We sincerely thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below and will incorporate revisions to strengthen the validation and presentation of our work.

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  1. Referee: [Method (Gaussian posterior modeling and uncertainty-driven fusion)] The central claim that dynamic adjustment based on estimated uncertainty suppresses unreliable evidence while preserving incongruity cues rests on the assumption that the learnable Gaussian variances reflect actual modality reliability. No correlation analysis, synthetic-noise injection experiments, or oracle-reliability comparison is described to validate this; without such evidence the variances may function simply as learned weighting parameters.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee's emphasis on validating that the learned variances capture genuine modality reliability rather than serving as generic weights. The Gaussian posteriors are optimized jointly with the uncertainty-driven contrastive loss and information bottleneck term, which are explicitly designed to penalize overconfident representations from noisy modalities and encourage higher variance for unreliable evidence. This is not arbitrary parameterization, as the fusion weights are derived directly from the posterior variances. However, we acknowledge that direct empirical validation (e.g., correlation with injected noise or oracle comparisons) is absent from the current manuscript. We will add a dedicated subsection with synthetic noise injection experiments on MSD/MMSD2, correlation plots between estimated variances and noise levels, and oracle-reliability baselines in the revised version. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Objective function and optimization] The unified objective (information bottleneck + modality prior + cross-modal alignment + uncertainty-driven contrastive loss) is presented without an explicit derivation or ablation showing how each term constrains the variance parameters to correlate with observable noise rather than target-label prediction. This leaves open whether the reported gains on MSD/MMSD2 are attributable to uncertainty awareness or to the additional capacity of the Gaussian parameterization.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. The objective combines the terms to regularize the posteriors such that the information bottleneck and modality prior promote compact yet informative distributions, while the contrastive loss aligns low-uncertainty representations across modalities. Nevertheless, the manuscript does not include an explicit derivation or component-wise ablations isolating effects on the variance parameters. In the revision, we will add a derivation in the appendix explaining the gradient flow on the variance terms and report ablation results (removing each loss term individually) showing impacts on both uncertainty estimation quality and final detection accuracy. This will help distinguish the contribution of uncertainty awareness from parameterization capacity. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Table or figure reporting benchmark results: the abstract states outperformance but provides no numerical margins, standard deviations across runs, or statistical significance tests against the strongest MLLM baselines, making it impossible to judge whether the robustness improvements are practically meaningful.

    Authors: We agree that detailed quantitative reporting is necessary for assessing practical significance. While the full experiments section contains benchmark tables, we will revise them to explicitly report numerical performance margins over all baselines (including the strongest MLLM methods), mean and standard deviation across multiple random seeds, and statistical significance (e.g., paired t-test p-values) against the top-performing baselines. These enhancements will also be reflected in an updated abstract and a new summary table for clarity. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in derivation chain

full rationale

The paper defines a multimodal fusion architecture that parameterizes textual, visual, and fused representations as learnable Gaussian posteriors, optimizes them end-to-end via a composite loss (information bottleneck, modality prior, alignment, and uncertainty-driven contrastive terms) on the public MSD and MMSD2 training splits, and reports accuracy/robustness gains on the corresponding held-out test sets against external baselines. No equation or step reduces a claimed result to its own inputs by construction; the uncertainty parameters are ordinary trainable variables whose values are determined by gradient descent on labeled data, and the performance metric is measured on independent test examples. No self-citations, imported uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked as load-bearing premises. The derivation is therefore self-contained against the stated external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

Review performed on abstract only; full derivation, parameter counts, and experimental controls are unavailable, so the ledger is necessarily incomplete and conservative.

free parameters (1)
  • learnable Gaussian posterior parameters
    Means and variances for textual, visual, and interaction-aware representations are learned from data to estimate uncertainty.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Sarcastic intent manifests as detectable semantic incongruity between text and image modalities.
    Stated as the core goal of MSD in the abstract.
invented entities (1)
  • learnable Gaussian posteriors for modality representations no independent evidence
    purpose: To quantify and propagate modality-specific uncertainty during fusion.
    Introduced in the abstract as the mechanism for dynamic weighting; no external falsifiable prediction supplied.

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