Resource-Limited Joint Multimodal Sentiment Reasoning and Classification via Chain-of-Thought Enhancement and Distillation
MulCoT-RD is a framework designed for resource-limited settings to perform multimodal sentiment reasoning and classification simultaneously using a lightweight model. It enhances reasoning quality through a two-stage Chain-of-Thought process and distills knowledge from a larger assistant model into an efficient student model, achieving superior performance with high interpretability.