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Apr 16, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Can Multimodal LLMs Truly Understand Emotions? Inside the MME-Emotion Benchmark

The MME-Emotion benchmark, introduced by researchers from CUHK and Alibaba Tongyi and accepted at ICLR 2026, provides a large‑scale, multimodal evaluation of emotional intelligence in large language models, revealing current models’ limited emotion recognition and reasoning abilities across diverse real‑world scenarios.