E3mo-Bench (Expressed) - Open-Vocabulary Recognition (VAD Similarity): leaderboard

E3mo-Bench (E³mo-Bench, 2026) expressed-emotion subset, about the emotion expressed by the people in a video: the model names the emotions freely, scored with the redundancy-aware set similarity in valence-arousal-dominance space, which penalizes distant confusions more, in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Redundancy-aware VAD set similarity F-VAD (%; predicted and reference open-vocabulary emotion sets compared in a z-normalized valence-arousal-dominance lexicon space after merging near-duplicate emotions, so that distant confusions cost more; 16 MLLMs on videos from eight emotion datasets, each assigned one affective perspective; subset: the emotion expressed by the people on screen). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2031. 16 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.448.89#123
2InternVL3-8B48.41#1688
3Qwen2.5-Omni-7B44.47#1789
4Claude Sonnet 4.643.78#161

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=e3mo-bench-expressed-open-vocabulary-recognition-vad-similarity · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.