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cs.AI2026

Do We Really Need Multimodal Emotion Language Models Larger Than 1B Parameters?

Kaiwen Zheng, Junchen Fu, Wenhao Deng +3

The paper introduces Light-MER, a sub‑billion‑parameter multimodal emotion recognition model that uses knowledge distillation, an optimal transport loss, and a multi‑reward optimiz…