Retraction Notice to "Graph-Driven Multimodal Feature Learning Framework for Apparent Personality Assessment"

This article [1] has been retracted by ICCK following an investigation conducted by the publisher. After publication, it was brought to the journal’s attention that some of the listed authors were unaware of the submission and had not provided their consent to be included as co-authors.In accordance with the COPE guidelines [2], the publisher initiated a formal investigation. It was confirmed that the author Shuyan Liu (School of Information Science and Technology, Yunnan University, Yunnan 650000, China) was unaware of the submission, did not contribute to the research or writing of the manuscript, and did not approve the final version for publication.As a result, the article is being retracted due to a serious breach of authorship ethics, constituting a violation of academic integrity.All authors were contacted regarding this retraction. Kangsheng Wang agreed to the retraction. Chengwei Ye, Huanzhen Zhang, Linuo Xu and Shuyan Liu did not respond to our correspondence.The publisher regrets any inconvenience this may have caused to readers.