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Frozen Multimodal Embeddings for AI-Assisted Interview Assessment of Personality and Cognitive Ability

arXiv:2606. 11930v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predicting psychological traits from asynchronous video interviews (AVIs) is a challenging problem in AI-assisted interview assessment because labeled datasets are limited while each response contains high-dimensional visual, acoustic, and verbal signals.

arXiv AI
Jun 11

Frozen Multimodal Embeddings for Personality and Cognitive Ability Assessment in Asynchronous Video Interviews

arXiv:2606. 11930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting psychological traits from asynchronous video interviews (AVIs) is a challenging multimodal learning problem because labeled datasets are limited while each response contains high-dimensional visual, acoustic, and verbal signals.

By Kuo-En Hung, Hung-Yue Suen, Shih-Ching Yeh, Hsiang-Wen Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

Traits Run Deeper: Trait-Specific Asymmetric Fusion for Multimodal Personality Assessment

Traits Run Deeper introduces a personality assessment framework that tailors multimodal fusion to each trait dimension. It comprises a Multimodal Foundation Representation module that uses psychology-informed semantic templates, a Trait-Specific Modality Fusion module that asymmetrically fuses modalities to reduce cross‑modal interference, and a Distribution‑Calibrated Personality Regression module that corrects label imbalance. The approach achieves a ~25% reduction in mean squared error on the AVI Challenge 2026 validation set and wins the Personality Assessment Track.

By Jia Li, Qian Chen, Wei Wang, Xinyu Li, Zhenzhen Hu, Dongsheng Shao, Richang Hong, Meng Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 18

E-AVI: Evidence-Grounded Multimodal Assessment for Automated Video Interviews

E-AVI is a new framework for automated video interview assessment that combines verbal, acoustic, and visual data. It extracts timestamped multimodal evidence and uses dimension‑conditioned attention with source‑level embeddings to score candidates. The system also provides a shared evidence pool for natural‑language feedback and follow‑up question answering, outperforming multimodal baselines on RecruitView and a private hospitality dataset.

By Haoshen Wang, Dongbo Che, Zeyi Xie, Yuanjie Du, Shicheng Hua, Xingyu Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

HUG-VIS: A Multimodal Benchmark for Human-centered Understanding and Generation in Visual Intelligence

HUG‑VIS is a unified multimodal benchmark for human‑centered visual intelligence, comprising 8,400 half‑body videos of 30 professional actors performing 280 emotion‑action prompts in Mandarin. The dataset provides synchronized video, audio, text, and alpha mattes for four tasks—human emotion recognition, video generation, voice cloning, and video matting—allowing evaluation of both open‑ and closed‑source models under a zero‑shot protocol. Results reveal that linguistic cues dominate emotion recognition, visual affect is weakest, and that automatic metrics and human judgments diverge in generation and cloning tasks, while motion‑related boundary fidelity remains a key challenge for matting.

By Fei Ma, Zebang Cheng, Minghui Li, Hongbo Xu, Yuyong Tan, Yihua Shao, Hanling Wang, Zhou Liu, Yuqing Gao, Dong Wang, Long Ma, Laizhong Cui, Nicu Sebe, Qi Tian
arXiv AI
Sep 3

PhoenixNest-Video: Evidence-Grounded Multimodal Agent Framework for Automated Video Interview Assessment

PhoenixNest-Video is an evidence‑grounded multimodal agent designed for automated video interview assessment. It constructs a semantic video graph as working memory, retrieves information conditioned on rubrics across visual, audio, and textual streams, and outputs per‑criterion scores tied to the candidate’s materials. Trained with rubric‑based reinforcement learning, the system achieves 91.50% grade‑level accuracy on VInterview‑2025, outperforming larger proprietary models while providing traceable evidence for each score.

By Fan Yuxuan, Huang Miaojun, Zhang Haimei, Wu Jingshen, Liu Hao