# Hybrid Multimodal Fusion for Humor Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11949 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.11949/

## Key facts

- Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 20 of its 46 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Sep 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 20 of 20)

- [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)
- [Deep Learning Face Attributes in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1411.7766/) (2014)
- [VGGFace2: A dataset for recognising faces across pose and age](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1710.08092/) (2017)
- [Joint Face Detection and Alignment using Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.02878/) (2016)
- [Tensor Fusion Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.07250/) (2017)
- [WIDER FACE: A Face Detection Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.06523/) (2015)
- [Efficient Low-rank Multimodal Fusion with Modality-Specific Factors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.00064/) (2018)
- [MOSI: Multimodal Corpus of Sentiment Intensity and Subjectivity Analysis in Online Opinion Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.06259/) (2016)
- [Memory Fusion Network for Multi-view Sequential Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.00927/) (2018)
- [UR-FUNNY: A Multimodal Language Dataset for Understanding Humor](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.06618/) (2019)
- [Multi-attention Recurrent Network for Human Communication Comprehension](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.00923/) (2018)
- [Words Can Shift: Dynamically Adjusting Word Representations Using Nonverbal Behaviors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.09362/) (2018)
- [Multimodal Language Analysis with Recurrent Multistage Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.03920/) (2018)
- [Select-Additive Learning: Improving Generalization in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.05244/) (2016)
- [The MuSe 2022 Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge: Humor, Emotional Reactions, and Stress](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.05691/) (2022)
- [Investigating Audio, Visual, and Text Fusion Methods for End-to-End Automatic Personality Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.00705/) (2018)
- [Modality-based Factorization for Multimodal Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.12624/) (2018)
- [Hybrid Mutimodal Fusion for Dimensional Emotion Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.08495/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [Let's Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.02439/) (2023)
- [Innovative Thinking, Infinite Humor: Humor Research of Large Language Models through Structured Thought Leaps](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.10370/) (2024)
- [The MuSe 2023 Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge: Mimicked Emotions, Cross-Cultural Humour, and Personalisation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.03369/) (2023)
- [A Causality-aware Paradigm for Evaluating Creativity of Multimodal Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.15147/) (2025)
- [Systematic Literature Review: Computational Approaches for Humour Style Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.01759/) (2024)
- [Efficient Feature Extraction and Late Fusion Strategy for Audiovisual Emotional Mimicry Intensity Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.11757/) (2024)
- [Towards Multimodal Prediction of Spontaneous Humour: A Novel Dataset and First Results](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14272/) (2022)
- [The MuSe 2024 Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge: Social Perception and Humor Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.07753/) (2024)
- [From Generalized Laughter to Personalized Chuckles: Unleashing the Power of Data Fusion in Subjective Humor Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.11296/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we present our solution to the MuSe-Humor sub-challenge of the Multimodal Emotional Challenge (MuSe) 2022. The goal of the MuSe-Humor sub-challenge is to detect humor and calculate AUC from audiovisual recordings of German football Bundesliga press conferences. It is annotated for humor displayed by the coaches. For this sub-challenge, we first build a discriminant model using the transformer module and BiLSTM module, and then propose a hybrid fusion strategy to use the prediction results of each modality to improve the performance of the model. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed model and hybrid fusion strategy on multimodal fusion, and the AUC of our proposed model on the test set is 0.8972.