Zhao-Bo Qi

Decoding Affective Nuances: Enhancing MLLMs via Hierarchical Emotion Reasoning and Contrastive Discriminative Pruning

While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in objective understanding tasks, their performance in affective reasoning still falls significantly short of human standards. We attribute it to a central capability gap: MLLMs are difficult to reliably distinguish semantically p...