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Sentiment and emotion understanding are essential to applications such as human-computer interaction and depression detection. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate robust general capabilities, they face considerable…

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Large language models (LLMs) show promising capabilities in predicting human emotions from text. However, the mechanisms through which these models process emotional stimuli remain largely unexplored. Our study addresses this gap by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ala N. Tak , Amin Banayeeanzade , Anahita Bolourani , Mina Kian , Robin Jia , Jonathan Gratch

Empathetic response generation is increasingly significant in AI, necessitating nuanced emotional and cognitive understanding coupled with articulate response expression. Current large language models (LLMs) excel in response expression;…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhou Yang , Zhaochun Ren , Wang Yufeng , Shizhong Peng , Haizhou Sun , Xiaofei Zhu , Xiangwen Liao

Emotion recognition in speech is a challenging multimodal task that requires understanding both verbal content and vocal nuances. This paper introduces a novel approach to emotion detection using Large Language Models (LLMs), which have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zehui Wu , Ziwei Gong , Lin Ai , Pengyuan Shi , Kaan Donbekci , Julia Hirschberg

Humans no doubt use language to communicate about their emotional experiences, but does language in turn help humans understand emotions, or is language just a vehicle of communication? This study used a form of artificial intelligence (AI)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ming Li , Yusheng Su , Hsiu-Yuan Huang , Jiali Cheng , Xin Hu , Xinmiao Zhang , Huadong Wang , Yujia Qin , Xiaozhi Wang , Kristen A. Lindquist , Zhiyuan Liu , Dan Zhang

Emotion understanding is a core capability for LLMs to interact effectively with humans, yet existing evaluation paradigms rely on discrete emotion label prediction and fail to capture the cognitive processes underlying emotion generation.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhaoyue Sun , Hainiu Xu , Andero Uusberg , James J. Gross , Petr Slovak , Yulan He

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) focuses on identifying and interpreting emotions from modality-compound inputs. Closely mirroring human cognitive processes in real-world environments, MER has drawn substantial attention from both…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hongrui Zhang , Daiqing Wu , Yangyang Li , Kuien Liu , Yuhui Wang , Yu Zhou , Sicheng Zhao

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great success in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. In addition to their cognitive intelligence, exploring their capabilities in emotional intelligence is also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xin Hong , Yuan Gong , Vidhyasaharan Sethu , Ting Dang

Emotion recognition from speech is a challenging task that requires capturing both linguistic and paralinguistic cues, with critical applications in human-computer interaction and mental health monitoring. Recent works have highlighted the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Hugo Thimonier , Antony Perzo , Renaud Seguier

Emotional Intelligence (EI), consisting of emotion perception, emotion cognition and emotion expression, plays the critical roles in improving user interaction experience for the current large language model (LLM) based conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Weixiang Zhao , Zhuojun Li , Shilong Wang , Yang Wang , Yulin Hu , Yanyan Zhao , Chen Wei , Bing Qin

Large Language Models (LLM) have recently been shown to perform well at various tasks from language understanding, reasoning, storytelling, and information search to theory of mind. In an extension of this work, we explore the ability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Nutchanon Yongsatianchot , Tobias Thejll-Madsen , Stacy Marsella

Affective computing seeks to support the holistic development of artificial intelligence by enabling machines to engage with human emotion. Recent foundation models, particularly large language models (LLMs), have been trained and evaluated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Sree Bhattacharyya , Evgenii Kuriabov , Lucas Craig , Tharun Dilliraj , Reginald B. Adams, , Jia Li , James Z. Wang

Affect recognition, encompassing emotions, moods, and feelings, plays a pivotal role in human communication. In the realm of conversational artificial intelligence, the ability to discern and respond to human affective cues is a critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shutong Feng , Guangzhi Sun , Nurul Lubis , Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Milica Gašić

The furnishing of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) has led to the emergence of numerous benchmark studies, particularly those evaluating their perception and understanding capabilities. Among these, understanding image-evoked…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lancheng Gao , Ziheng Jia , Yunhao Zeng , Wei Sun , Yiming Zhang , Wei Zhou , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

This paper presents a detailed system description of our entry for the WASSA 2024 Task 2, focused on cross-lingual emotion detection. We utilized a combination of large language models (LLMs) and their ensembles to effectively understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities in perception, reasoning, and generation, and are increasingly used in applications such as social robots and human-computer interaction, where understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 He Hu , Tengjin Weng , Zebang Cheng , Yu Wang , Jiachen Luo , Björn Schuller , Zheng Lian , Laizhong Cui

This work investigates the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in detecting and understanding human emotions through text. Drawing upon emotion models from psychology, we adopt an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Florian Lecourt , Madalina Croitoru , Konstantin Todorov

Datasets used for emotion recognition tasks typically contain overt cues that can be used in predicting the emotions expressed in a text. However, one challenge is that texts sometimes contain covert contextual cues that are rich in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Gerard Christopher Yeo , Kokil Jaidka

Emotion understanding is a critical yet challenging task. Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced their capabilities in this area. However, MLLMs often suffer from hallucinations, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Bohao Xing , Xin Liu , Guoying Zhao , Chengyu Liu , Xiaolan Fu , Heikki Kälviäinen

This paper argues that Large Language Models (LLMs) should incorporate explicit mechanisms for human empathy. As LLMs become increasingly deployed in high-stakes human-centered settings, their success depends not only on correctness or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoxing You , Qiang Huang , Jun Yu