EmoS: leaderboard

Seven-way emotion recognition from short video clips (EmoS, Guo et al., 2026): English MELD and Chinese CH-SIMS v2 clips re-annotated by three annotators per clip and aggregated with Dawid-Skene, scored on the 800-clip high-confidence test subset. Accuracy in percent for multimodal LLMs prompted zero-shot, with answers outside the seven labels counted wrong; higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; Basic-7 emotion label (anger, disgust, fear, joy, neutral, sadness, surprise) of a video clip from the high-confidence test subset, human labels aggregated by Dawid-Skene; zero-shot multimodal LLM, answers outside the label set count as wrong; English and Chinese clips pooled). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3 Pro61.1#135
2Qwen2.5-Omni-7B57.1#1797

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=emos · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.