ArtECulture: Benchmarking Culture-Conditioned Visual Emotion Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.03358 · cs.CL, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-08-04 · Read on arXiv

Xiaolin Chen, Xuemeng Song, Wenhao Shi, Xianjing Han, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu

cs.CL, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-08-04

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 29× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 25× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• MLLMs — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 8× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Augmentation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Performance Gap — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Study — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ontology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Training-Free Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• EmoBench-M: Benchmarking Emotional Intelligence for Multimodal Large Language Models

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