3 papers
cs.MM2026
DualAffect: Dual-Path Paralinguistic Integration for Generative Audiovisual Emotion Understanding
Yibo Wang, Jisheng Dang, Bimei Wang +8
Understanding human emotion is essential for multimodal systems that interpret both the content of an interaction and the speaker's expressive state. However, connecting paralingui…
cs.CL2026
Read-Best Is Not Steer-Best: A Probing--Steering Layer Dissociation in Omni-Modal Large Language Models
Yibo Wang, Jisheng Dang, Bimei Wang +7
Omni-modal large language models integrate text, audio, and image signals into a shared residual stream, where concepts such as emotion can be linearly decoded and causally modifie…
cs.AI2026
AffectOmni: RL-Verifiable People-Centric Grounded Affective Reasoning for Social and Art-Related Scenes
Yibo Wang, Rui Yang, Jisheng Dang +7
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on VQA and scene understanding, yet affective reasoning remains vulnerable to shortcut behavior. Models may pred…