MultivationBench - Reiss Practical Motivation: leaderboard

MultivationBench (HKUST, Findings of EMNLP 2026) practical-motivation task: choose the context-specific motivation options that fit a character behavior under the 16 Reiss basic desires. The score is exact-match accuracy of the predicted option 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 practical-motivation task, multimodal input; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2032. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3 Flash30.7#164
2Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct28#3882
3Llama 4 Scout19#1776
4Grok 4.1 Fast17.2#430
5Llama 4 Maverick14#1099
6O4 Mini10.8#353
7Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL2.9#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-practical-motivation · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.