Multimodal Large Language Models Meet Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning: A Survey

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Main Authors: Shou, Yuntao, Meng, Tao, Ai, Wei, Li, Keqin
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author Shou, Yuntao
Meng, Tao
Ai, Wei
Li, Keqin
author_facet Shou, Yuntao
Meng, Tao
Ai, Wei
Li, Keqin
contents In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances in language understanding, marking a significant step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). With increasing demands for higher-level semantics and cross-modal fusion, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged, integrating diverse information sources (e.g., text, vision, and audio) to enhance modeling and reasoning in complex scenarios. In AI for Science, multimodal emotion recognition and reasoning has become a rapidly growing frontier. While LLMs and MLLMs have achieved notable progress in this area, the field still lacks a systematic review that consolidates recent developments. To address this gap, this paper provides a comprehensive survey of LLMs and MLLMs for emotion recognition and reasoning, covering model architectures, datasets, and performance benchmarks. We further highlight key challenges and outline future research directions, aiming to offer researchers both an authoritative reference and practical insights for advancing this domain. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first attempt to comprehensively survey the intersection of MLLMs with multimodal emotion recognition and reasoning. The summary of existing methods mentioned is in our Github: \href{https://github.com/yuntaoshou/Awesome-Emotion-Reasoning}{https://github.com/yuntaoshou/Awesome-Emotion-Reasoning}.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Large Language Models Meet Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning: A Survey
Shou, Yuntao
Meng, Tao
Ai, Wei
Li, Keqin
Computation and Language
In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances in language understanding, marking a significant step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). With increasing demands for higher-level semantics and cross-modal fusion, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged, integrating diverse information sources (e.g., text, vision, and audio) to enhance modeling and reasoning in complex scenarios. In AI for Science, multimodal emotion recognition and reasoning has become a rapidly growing frontier. While LLMs and MLLMs have achieved notable progress in this area, the field still lacks a systematic review that consolidates recent developments. To address this gap, this paper provides a comprehensive survey of LLMs and MLLMs for emotion recognition and reasoning, covering model architectures, datasets, and performance benchmarks. We further highlight key challenges and outline future research directions, aiming to offer researchers both an authoritative reference and practical insights for advancing this domain. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first attempt to comprehensively survey the intersection of MLLMs with multimodal emotion recognition and reasoning. The summary of existing methods mentioned is in our Github: \href{https://github.com/yuntaoshou/Awesome-Emotion-Reasoning}{https://github.com/yuntaoshou/Awesome-Emotion-Reasoning}.
title Multimodal Large Language Models Meet Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning: A Survey
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24322