MultivationBench - Reiss Definition: leaderboard

MultivationBench (HKUST, Findings of EMNLP 2026) definition task: classify each visually grounded character behavior into the 16 Reiss basic desires. 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; Reiss definition task, multimodal input; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2028. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Llama 4 Maverick38.3#1099
2Grok 4.1 Fast37.2#430
3Llama 4 Scout36.4#1776
4Gemini 3 Flash36#164
5Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct28.6#3882
6O4 Mini26.9#353
7Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL3.9#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-reiss-definition · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.