arXiv AI

MER-R1: Multimodal Emotion Reasoning via Slow-Fast Thinking Synergy

arXiv:2606. 27652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We find that explicit reasoning does not necessarily translate into better multimodal emotion recognition (MER) accuracy, even though it makes predictions more interpretable.

arXiv AI
Jul 24

EmoAgent-R1: Towards Multimodal Emotion Understanding with Reinforcement Learning-based Dynamic Agent Specialization

arXiv:2607. 21013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive performance in multimodal emotion recognition (MER) tasks and lifted MER to a new level that is complex emotion understanding with advanced video understanding abilities and natural language description.

By Lihuang Fang, Yuchen Zou, kebin Jin, Jinghui Qin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

SynIB: Informational Bottleneck for Maximizing Synergy in Multimodal Learning

arXiv:2606. 09853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central objective in multimodal learning is to capture synergy: task-relevant information that arises only from the joint use of multiple modalities, and is not available from any single modality alone.

By Konstantinos Kontras, Teodora Gagaleska, Thomas Strypsteen, Christos Chatzichristos, Matthew Blaschko, Maarten De Vos, Paul Pu Liang
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Omni-Perception Policy Optimization for Multimodal Emotion Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 25325v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We find that current emotion-oriented Omni-MLLMs still lack reliable omni-modal perception: they (i) underutilize multimodal cues in their reasoning trajectories and (ii) exhibit unfaithful behavior, often hallucinating modality-specific statements from other modalities.

By Zhiyuan Han, Beier Zhu, Wenwen Tong, Pengyang Shao, Peipei Song, Xinyi Wang, Jiangnan Chen, Lewei Lu, Xun Yang
arXiv AI
Jul 15

Do We Really Need Multimodal Emotion Language Models Larger Than 1B Parameters?

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 14

Do We Really Need Multimodal Emotion Language Models Larger Than 1B Parameters?

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.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

Video Reasoning without Training

arXiv:2510. 17045v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video reasoning using Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) relies on costly reinforcement learning (RL) and verbose chain-of-thought, resulting in substantial computational overhead during both training and inference.

By Deepak Sridhar, Kartikeya Bhardwaj, Jeya Pradha Jeyaraj, Nuno Vasconcelos, Ankita Nayak, Harris Teague
arXiv AI
Jun 12

Entropy-Gradient Inversion: Moving Toward Internal Mechanism of Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2605. 17770v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The advancement of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) has catalyzed a paradigm shift from reactive ``fast thinking'' text generation to systematic, step-by-step ``slow thinking'' reasoning, unlocking state-of-the-art performance in complex mathematical and logical tasks.

By Junyao Yang, Chen Qian, Kun Wang, Linfeng Zhang, Quanshi Zhang, Yong Liu, Dongrui Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Stop Thinking, Start Looking: Efficient Post-Training for Multimodal Document Question Answering via Reasoning-Free Alignment

arXiv:2607. 14682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient multimodal document question answering with explicit visual grounding, locating the precise document region that supports each answer remains an open challenge.

By Harikrishnan P M, Goutham Vignesh, Ganesh Parab, Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Vishal Vaddina, Varun V, Rohit Agrawal
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 20

MADA-RL: Multi-Agent Debate-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Parameter-Efficient Reasoning in Compact Models

Large language models achieve strong reasoning performance, but often at prohibitive training cost - a challenge that is especially acute for compact models ($\leq 4 \, \mathrm{B}$ parameters) trained under limited budgets. We introduce MADA-RL, a post-training framework that specializes compact models into generator and critic roles and trains them with a debate-aware learning signal, fine-tuning only a small subset of parameters via LoRA adapters.