Human Behavior Atlas: Benchmarking Unified Psychological and Social Behavior Understanding

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Main Authors: Ong, Keane, Dai, Wei, Li, Carol, Feng, Dewei, Li, Hengzhi, Wu, Jingyao, Cheong, Jiaee, Mao, Rui, Mengaldo, Gianmarco, Cambria, Erik, Liang, Paul Pu
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author Ong, Keane
Dai, Wei
Li, Carol
Feng, Dewei
Li, Hengzhi
Wu, Jingyao
Cheong, Jiaee
Mao, Rui
Mengaldo, Gianmarco
Cambria, Erik
Liang, Paul Pu
author_facet Ong, Keane
Dai, Wei
Li, Carol
Feng, Dewei
Li, Hengzhi
Wu, Jingyao
Cheong, Jiaee
Mao, Rui
Mengaldo, Gianmarco
Cambria, Erik
Liang, Paul Pu
contents Using intelligent systems to perceive psychological and social behaviors, that is, the underlying affective, cognitive, and pathological states that are manifested through observable behaviors and social interactions, remains a challenge due to their complex, multifaceted, and personalized nature. Existing work tackling these dimensions through specialized datasets and single-task systems often miss opportunities for scalability, cross-task transfer, and broader generalization. To address this gap, we curate Human Behavior Atlas, a unified benchmark of diverse behavioral tasks designed to support the development of foundation models for understanding psychological and social behaviors. Human Behavior Atlas comprises over 100,000 samples spanning text, audio, and visual modalities, covering tasks on affective states, cognitive states, pathologies, and social processes. Our unification efforts can reduce redundancy and cost, enable training to scale efficiently across tasks, and enhance generalization of behavioral features across domains. On Human Behavior Atlas, we train three models: Omnisapiens-7B SFT, Omnisapiens-7B BAM, and Omnisapiens-7B RL. We show that training on Human Behavior Atlas enables models to consistently outperform existing multimodal LLMs across diverse behavioral tasks. Pretraining on Human Behavior Atlas also improves transfer to novel behavioral datasets; with the targeted use of behavioral descriptors yielding meaningful performance gains. The benchmark, models, and codes can be found at: https://github.com/MIT-MI/human_behavior_atlas.
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spellingShingle Human Behavior Atlas: Benchmarking Unified Psychological and Social Behavior Understanding
Ong, Keane
Dai, Wei
Li, Carol
Feng, Dewei
Li, Hengzhi
Wu, Jingyao
Cheong, Jiaee
Mao, Rui
Mengaldo, Gianmarco
Cambria, Erik
Liang, Paul Pu
Artificial Intelligence
Using intelligent systems to perceive psychological and social behaviors, that is, the underlying affective, cognitive, and pathological states that are manifested through observable behaviors and social interactions, remains a challenge due to their complex, multifaceted, and personalized nature. Existing work tackling these dimensions through specialized datasets and single-task systems often miss opportunities for scalability, cross-task transfer, and broader generalization. To address this gap, we curate Human Behavior Atlas, a unified benchmark of diverse behavioral tasks designed to support the development of foundation models for understanding psychological and social behaviors. Human Behavior Atlas comprises over 100,000 samples spanning text, audio, and visual modalities, covering tasks on affective states, cognitive states, pathologies, and social processes. Our unification efforts can reduce redundancy and cost, enable training to scale efficiently across tasks, and enhance generalization of behavioral features across domains. On Human Behavior Atlas, we train three models: Omnisapiens-7B SFT, Omnisapiens-7B BAM, and Omnisapiens-7B RL. We show that training on Human Behavior Atlas enables models to consistently outperform existing multimodal LLMs across diverse behavioral tasks. Pretraining on Human Behavior Atlas also improves transfer to novel behavioral datasets; with the targeted use of behavioral descriptors yielding meaningful performance gains. The benchmark, models, and codes can be found at: https://github.com/MIT-MI/human_behavior_atlas.
title Human Behavior Atlas: Benchmarking Unified Psychological and Social Behavior Understanding
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04899