arXiv:2512. 03438v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reasoning models trained with multimodal reinforcement learning (MMRL) have become increasingly capable, yet they are almost universally optimized using sparse, outcome-based rewards computed based on the final answers.
By Reuben Tan, Baolin Peng, Zhengyuan Yang, Hao Cheng, Oier Mees, Theodore Zhao, Andrea Tupini, Isar Meijer, Qianhui Wu, Yuncong Yang, Lars Liden, Yu Gu, Sheng Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Lijuan Wang, Marc Pollefeys, Yong Jae Lee, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv:2602. 23802v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual reasoning and understanding tasks but still struggle to capture the complexity and subjectivity of human emotions.
By Yiyang Fang, Wenke Huang, Pei Fu, Yihao Yang, Kehua Su, Zhenbo Luo, Jian Luan, Mang Ye
arXiv:2607. 12787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved the performance of multimodal emotion recognition (MER) and enabled interpretable description generation by jointly modeling video, audio, and language, etc.
By Kaiwen Zheng, Junchen Fu, Wenhao Deng, Hu Han, Joemon M. Jose, Xuri Ge
Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved the performance of multimodal emotion recognition (MER) and enabled interpretable description generation by jointly modeling video, audio, and language, etc. However, these performance improvements are often accompanied by an increase in model parameter size (e.
The paper introduces ProAction, a multimodal dataset of 10,000 samples comprising visual, audio, and text inputs across 12 daily-life scenarios, designed to support the Proactive Robot Action Reasoning (ProRobo) problem. It presents a two-stage human-in-the-loop annotation pipeline that incorporates appraisal and Theory-of-Mind considerations to generate cognitively grounded high-level action labels. The authors benchmark multimodal large language models and propose MMC2Act, showing that training on ProAction significantly improves proactive action reasoning compared to general-purpose models.
By Zhihao Gu, Kechao Zhu, Yuanfeng Wu, Mohan Liu, Ankit Kumar Shaw, ChenDong Hong, Xuanyu Chen, Dengchen Mei, Xu Tianyi, Lin Wang
arXiv:2609.39168v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has improved the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), yet existing...
By Zhihan Zhang, Lizi Liao
arXiv:2509. 26306v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing multi-agent learning approaches have developed interactive training environments to explicitly promote collaboration among multiple Large Language Models (LLMs), thereby constructing stronger multi-agent systems (MAS).
By Hehai Lin, Shilei Cao, Sudong Wang, Haotian Wu, Minzhi Li, Linyi Yang, Juepeng Zheng, Chengwei Qin
arXiv:2608. 08326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as an effective approach for improving multimodal reasoning.
By Yifan Li, Ruxin Sun, Tongzhou Zhao
arXiv:2609.13240v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The AffectiveArt Multidimensional Art Emotion Understanding task asks to jointly predict an artwork's fine-grained emotion (12 classes, 1549:1 head-to-...
By Jian Li, Fanfan Ji, Jinxiang Lai, Ying Tai, Jian Yang, Xiao-Tong Yuan, Chengjie Wang, Yabiao Wang
arXiv:2609.16059v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Multimodal instruction following (MMIF) is crucial for building generalist agents. However, current training paradigms rely heavily on Supervised Fin...
By Yirong Zeng, Zhang Sai, Yuxian Wang, Yutai Hou, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding, Bibo Cai
The Pistis Technical Report introduces the Pistis model family, comprising 27B- and 9B-parameter multimodal large language models built on Qwen3.6 and Qwen3.5. The models are developed through a scalable post‑training framework that begins with large‑scale multimodal supervised fine‑tuning and then applies Interleaved Distillation and Reinforcement Learning (IDRL) to integrate on‑policy distillation and reinforcement learning within a single training loop. Two specialized variants—Pistis‑Thinking for deep multimodal reasoning and Pistis‑Agentic for long‑horizon planning, iterative reasoning, and tool use—are produced at both scales, and a system‑level method called Pistis‑Auto‑Harnessing (PAH) further improves inference harness performance without updating model parameters.
By Heyun Chen, Xiaohan Lan, Jiaxi Li, Zhilin Lu, Qi She, Weiwen Xu, Fei Yu, Yujie Zhong, Jinghuan Chen, Zijian Feng, Siyu Jiao, Yiheng Lin, Xinhao Wang, Sihan Yang, Jieyu You, Changbin Zhang, Hengyu Zhang, Xudong Zhang, Yunqing Zhao, Shuai Zheng
The paper introduces DAN, a training‑free inference‑time framework that improves affective reasoning in multimodal large language models. It combines a Hierarchical Emotional Reasoning Chain (HERC) to better capture fine‑grained visual cues and a Contrastive Discriminative Visual Pruning (CDVP) module to isolate discriminative tokens for semantically similar emotions. Experiments show significant gains, notably a +10.47% improvement on the WebEmo25 benchmark with Qwen3‑VL‑8B‑Instruct.
By Cheng Ye, Weidong Chen, Zhaobo Qi, Beier Zhu, Zhendong Mao