arXiv:2608. 07512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Asynchronous Video Interviews (AVIs) have become increasingly popular for personality assessment.
By Dongsheng Hu, Tianyi Zhang, Chuang Liu, Yuan Zong Yong Li, Wenming Zheng, Xiu-xiu Zhan
arXiv:2606. 26348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can process diverse inputs, e.
By Po-han Li, Shenghui Chen, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu
PIVOTSBench is a benchmark designed to assess multimodal large language models’ ability to reason about fine‑grained interpersonal relationships. It is constructed from Social‑IQ 2.0 and YouTube data and evaluates models on predicting bidirectional relationship dimensions grounded in psychology research. The benchmark also includes auxiliary tasks that test models’ capacity to identify and use critical visual cues, and it examines the impact of visual modalities, social role information, and different prediction settings on model performance.
By Shuxiang Zhang, Yiting Yin, Wenxuan Song, Yuhang Wu, Miao Liu
arXiv:2608. 13113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have led to substantial progress in video understanding, accompanied by a growing number of long video benchmarks.
By Weitao Chen, Hu Jiaxin, Xie Tianyidan, Yang Li, Yuyi Qian, Banghao Xu, Ziheng Tang, Shenyi Wang, Mingyue Yu, Duo Li, Jiacheng Shi, Gao Wang, Zhan Xu, Zhicheng Qiu, Xuanfu Li, Jian Yang, Lanjun Wang, Zili Yi
arXiv:2609.22778v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used as evaluators, yet their reliability in professional assessment tasks that require exper...
By Yuhan Lu, Yi Yao, Hua Shen, Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, Zhaonan Wang
Video2Reaction is a multimodal dataset that links short movie segments to the emotional reactions of viewers, gathered from social media comments. The dataset models reactions as distributions over categorical emotions, capturing the subjective and ambiguous nature of emotional perception. Experiments show that vision‑language models fine‑tuned with LoRA learn effectively from Video2Reaction and outperform specialized baselines, and that models pre‑fine‑tuned on this dataset transfer well to other emotion prediction tasks.
By Sidong Zhang, Trang Nguyen, Shiv Shankar, Gauri Jagatap, Deepak Chandran, Andrea Fanelli, Madalina Fiterau
Humans possess an innate ability to understand fine-grained interpersonal relationships, which is central to everyday social interactions. Although such reasoning is inherently multimodal, it remains largely unexplored by existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs).
VKnowU is a benchmark that tests multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on their grasp of visual knowledge—intuitive, human-like understanding of physical and social principles in videos. The benchmark contains 1,680 questions across 1,249 videos, covering eight core types of visual knowledge, and shows that current state‑of‑the‑art MLLMs still lag behind human performance, especially on world‑centric tasks. To address this gap, the authors release VKnowQA and VideoKnow+, a baseline model that incorporates visual knowledge via a See‑Think‑Answer framework and reinforcement learning, improving performance on VKnowU and related datasets.
By Tianxiang Jiang, Sheng Xia, Yicheng Xu, Linquan Wu, Xiangyu Zeng, Limin Wang, Yu Qiao, Yi Wang
arXiv:2608.30068v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Films communicate through deliberate creative choices, including lighting, color, composition, editing, dialogue, music, and sound. Humans naturally in...
By Kaishuu Shinozaki-Conefrey, Olivier Pascaud, Robin Courant, Xi Wang, Dimitris Samaras, Vicky Kalogeiton
CoMMET is a new multimodal benchmark designed to evaluate Theory of Mind (ToM) in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). It expands beyond existing text-only, belief-focused tests by covering a wider range of mental states, incorporating moral evaluation, and enabling multi-turn, open-ended interactions. The dataset is grounded in psychological theory and provides a comprehensive assessment across different model families and sizes, revealing strengths, limitations, and future improvement directions.
By Ruirui Chen, Weifeng Jiang, Chengwei Qin, Kaiwen Wei, Yanzhen Yue, Cheston Tan
arXiv:2606. 00959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding modality interaction in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is central to reliable deployment.
By Wanlong Fang, Tianle Zhang, Wen Tao, Alvin Chan
arXiv:2606. 02522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress on general and long-form video understanding, yet their ability to preserve brief answer-critical visual evidence remains underexplored.
By Xiaolin Liu, Yilun Zhu, Xiangyu Zhao, Xuehui Wang, Yan Li, Xin Li, Haoyu Cao, Xing Sun, Shaofeng Zhang, Xu Yang, Zhihang Zhong, Xue Yang