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most citedEmotion-LLaMA: Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning with Instruction Tuning

10 citations · 13 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CL2026

InstMoE: Adaptive Multimodal Routing with Specialized Experts

Guimin Hu, Xiang He, Yingjian Li +3

Multimodal inputs are inherently heterogeneous, not only across modalities but also in the information pathways required for effective prediction. To address this limitation, we pr…

cs.HC2026

RobotEQ 3.0: Towards Personalized Social Proactive Intelligence in Embodied Agents

Shufan Zhang, Xinyi Che, Kuofei Fang +8

Social Proactive Intelligence (SPI) is an emerging research area, aiming to shift embodied agents from reactive assistance toward proactively understanding human needs and executin…

cs.CV2026

RobotEQ-Video: A Video-Centric Benchmark for Social Proactive Intelligence with World-State Taxonomy

Xinyi Che, Zheng Lian, Kuofei Fang +13

Social Proactive Intelligence (SPI) extends proactive assistance beyond task completeness to consider social appropriateness in diverse embodied scenarios. However, prior SPI resea…

cs.HC2026

OneEmo: A Unified Multimodal Reasoning Model for Emotion Perception, Understanding, and Interaction

Jiahao Huang, Zheng Lian, Jingyi Zhang +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in emotional intelligence. However, prevailing research predominantly focuses on task-specific sp…

cs.HC2026

AffectSim: A Controllable Interactive 3D Simulation Benchmark for Embodied Affective Perception

Ke Xing, Zhilong Wang, Zheng Lian +8

Existing affective benchmarks largely rely on fixed recordings, where observation conditions are predetermined before inference. Consequently, they mainly evaluate passive affect r…

cs.CV2026

VideoGAIA: A Benchmark for General AI Assistants on Agentic Video Understanding

Fan Zhang, Guangming Yao, Jinyang Wu +6

Video understanding is a fundamental task for evaluating the capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing leading models have already achieved approx…

cs.RO2026

AC-VLA: Robust Out-of-Distribution Action Execution via Compositional Learning

Xiaojiang Peng, Kai Peng, Jie Lu +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at end-to-end robotic manipulation but struggle with out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization when familiar sub-tasks are recombined in un…

cs.CV2026

OmniOPSD: Rationale-Privileged On-Policy Self-Distillation for Affective Computing

Zebang Cheng, Shuimu Chen, Boxue Yang +7

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced affective computing by enabling nuanced reasoning over visual, acoustic, and linguistic evidence. A key approach to improving…

cs.CV2026

Struct-Searcher: Agentic Structural Thinking Advances Multimodal Deep Information Seeking

Fan Zhang, Vireo Zhang, Shengju Qian +7

Deep research agents have attracted increasing attention for their ability to collect large-scale online information to acquire target knowledge, with recent efforts shifting from…

cs.HC2026

AffectGPT-RL: Revealing Roles of Reinforcement Learning in Open-Vocabulary Emotion Recognition

Zheng Lian, Fan Zhang, Lan Chen +8

Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition (OV-MER) aims to predict emotions without being constrained by predefined label spaces, thereby enabling fine-grained emotion underst…

cs.RO2026

RobotEQ: Towards Social Proactive Intelligence in Embodied Agents

Kuofei Fang, Zheng Lian, Xinyi Che +13

Embodied agents represent a prominent research focus across both academia and industry. The prevailing paradigm has gradually shifted from reactive assistance, which requires expli…

cs.CV2026

Emotion-LLaMAv2 and MMEVerse: A New Framework and Benchmark for Multimodal Emotion Understanding

Xiaojiang Peng, Jingyi Chen, Zebang Cheng +11

Understanding human emotions from multimodal signals poses a significant challenge in affective computing and human-robot interaction. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs…

cs.AI2026

SayNext-Bench: Why Do LLMs Struggle with Next-Utterance Anticipation?

Yueyi Yang, Haotian Liu, Fang Kang +4

We explore the use of large language models (LLMs) for next-utterance anticipation in human dialogue. Despite recent advances in LLMs demonstrating their ability to engage in natur…

cs.CV2025

Rethinking Facial Expression Recognition in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models: Benchmark, Datasets, and Beyond

Fan Zhang, Haoxuan Li, Shengju Qian +9

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have revolutionized numerous research fields, including computer vision and affective computing. As a pivotal challenge in this interdiscip…

cs.CV2025

MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models

Fan Zhang, Zebang Cheng, Chong Deng +18

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have catalyzed transformative progress in affective computing, enabling models to exhibit emergent emotional intelligenc…

cs.HC2025

AffectGPT-R1: Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Zheng Lian, Fan Zhang, Yazhou Zhang +5

Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition (OV-MER) aims to predict emotions without being constrained by label spaces, enabling fine-grained emotion understanding. Unlike trad…

cs.CV2025

Learning Transferable Facial Emotion Representations from Large-Scale Semantically Rich Captions

Licai Sun, Xingxun Jiang, Haoyu Chen +7

Current facial emotion recognition systems are predominately trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories or abstract dimensional values. This constrained form of superv…

cs.HC2025

EmoPrefer: Can Large Language Models Understand Human Emotion Preferences?

Zheng Lian, Licai Sun, Lan Chen +8

Descriptive Multimodal Emotion Recognition (DMER) has garnered increasing research attention. Unlike traditional discriminative paradigms that rely on predefined emotion taxonomies…

cs.SD2025

MMAR: A Challenging Benchmark for Deep Reasoning in Speech, Audio, Music, and Their Mix

Ziyang Ma, Yinghao Ma, Yanqiao Zhu +31

We introduce MMAR, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the deep reasoning capabilities of Audio-Language Models (ALMs) across massive multi-disciplinary tasks. MMAR comprises 1,00…

cs.MM2025

Emotion-Qwen: A Unified Framework for Emotion and Vision Understanding

Dawei Huang, Qing Li, Chuan Yan +9

Accurate emotion understanding in videos necessitates effectively recognizing and interpreting emotional states by integrating visual, textual, auditory, and contextual cues. Altho…

cs.HC2025

MER 2025: When Affective Computing Meets Large Language Models

Zheng Lian, Rui Liu, Kele Xu +15

MER2025 is the third year of our MER series of challenges, aiming to bring together researchers in the affective computing community to explore emerging trends and future direction…

cs.CL2025

EmoBench-M: Benchmarking Emotional Intelligence for Multimodal Large Language Models

He Hu, Lianzhong You, Hongbo Xu +7

With the integration of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) into robotic systems and AI applications, embedding emotional intelligence (EI) capabilities is essential for enabl…

cs.HC2025★ 2 cited

AffectGPT: A New Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models

Zheng Lian, Haoyu Chen, Lan Chen +9

The emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) advances multimodal emotion recognition (MER) to the next level, from naive discriminative tasks to complex emotion unders…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

OV-MER: Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Zheng Lian, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun +13

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is a critical research area that seeks to decode human emotions from diverse data modalities. However, existing machine learning methods predom…