Explainable Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Dependency-guided Large Language Model

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arXiv:2601.06848v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal aspect-based sentiment analysis (MABSA) aims to identify aspect-level sentiments by jointly modeling textual and visual information, which is essential for fine-grained opinion understanding in social media. Existing approaches mainly rely on discriminative classification with complex multimodal fusion, yet they lack explicit sentiment explainability. In this paper, we reformulate MABSA as a generative and explainable task, proposing