MultivationBench - Maslow Definition: leaderboard

MultivationBench (HKUST, Findings of EMNLP 2026) definition task: classify each visually grounded character behavior into the eight levels of the Maslow hierarchy of needs. The score is exact-match accuracy of the predicted label set in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Exact-match accuracy (%) of multi-label motivation predictions for visually grounded character behaviors in sequential visual narratives, reasoning over the accumulated story images and text (Maslow 8-level needs and Reiss 16 basic desires, definition and practical-motivation tasks), zero-shot at temperature 0; Maslow definition task, multimodal input; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct47.5#3882
2Llama 4 Maverick47.3#1099
3O4 Mini44.1#353
4Grok 4.1 Fast41.9#430
5Llama 4 Scout37.6#1776
6Gemini 3 Flash33.1#164
7Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL22.2#2231

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=multivationbench-maslow-definition · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.