AVERE: Revolutionizing Emotion Understanding in Socially Intelligent Agents
Analysis
This research introduces a novel approach, AVEm-DPO, for improving how AI understands emotions from audiovisual data. It addresses critical issues like spurious associations and hallucinations in the responses of Multimodal LLMs, paving the way for more reliable and socially intelligent Agents. The proposed benchmark, EmoReAlM, offers a rigorous framework for evaluating and enhancing these capabilities.
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Reference / Citation
View Original"Experimental results on DFEW, RAVDESS and EMER demonstrate that our method significantly improves the performance of the reference baseline models with 6-19% of relative performance gains in zero-shot settings."
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ArXiv MLFeb 10, 2026 05:00
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