# Multi-Modal Sarcasm Detection Based on Contrastive Attention Mechanism

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.15153 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.15153/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 15 of its 28 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 30 Sep 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 15 of 15)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Empirical Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks on Sequence Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.3555/) (2014)
- [Multimodal Transformer for Unaligned Multimodal Language Sequences](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.00295/) (2019)
- [Tensor Fusion Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.07250/) (2017)
- [DialogueRNN: An Attentive RNN for Emotion Detection in Conversations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.00405/) (2018)
- [DialogueGCN: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.11540/) (2019)
- [Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An _Obviously_ Perfect Paper)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.01815/) (2019)
- [Memory Fusion Network for Multi-view Sequential Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.00927/) (2018)
- [Found in Translation: Learning Robust Joint Representations by Cyclic Translations Between Modalities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.07809/) (2018)
- [A Deeper Look into Sarcastic Tweets Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1610.08815/) (2016)
- [Contrastive Attention Mechanism for Abstractive Sentence Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.13114/) (2019)
- [Modulated Fusion using Transformer for Linguistic-Acoustic Emotion Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02057/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [A Quantum Probability Driven Framework for Joint Multi-Modal Sarcasm, Sentiment and Emotion Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.03650/) (2023)
- [MUStReason: A Benchmark for Diagnosing Pragmatic Reasoning in Video-LMs for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.23727/) (2025)
- [Spoken in Jest, Detected in Earnest: A Systematic Review of Sarcasm Recognition -- Multimodal Fusion, Challenges, and Future Prospects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.04605/) (2025)
- [Dialogue Agents 101: A Beginner's Guide to Critical Ingredients for Designing Effective Conversational Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.07255/) (2023)
- [An Innovative CGL-MHA Model for Sarcasm Sentiment Recognition Using the MindSpore Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.01264/) (2024)
- [Computational Humor with Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Datasets, Evaluation, and Challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.19011/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In the past decade, sarcasm detection has been intensively conducted in a textual scenario. With the popularization of video communication, the analysis in multi-modal scenarios has received much attention in recent years. Therefore, multi-modal sarcasm detection, which aims at detecting sarcasm in video conversations, becomes increasingly hot in both the natural language processing community and the multi-modal analysis community. In this paper, considering that sarcasm is often conveyed through incongruity between modalities (e.g., text expressing a compliment while acoustic tone indicating a grumble), we construct a Contras-tive-Attention-based Sarcasm Detection (ConAttSD) model, which uses an inter-modality contrastive attention mechanism to extract several contrastive features for an utterance. A contrastive feature represents the incongruity of information between two modalities. Our experiments on MUStARD, a benchmark multi-modal sarcasm dataset, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed ConAttSD model.