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New benchmark AffToM evaluates affective Theory of Mind in complex social interactions

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Researchers have introduced AffToM, a new benchmark designed to evaluate affective Theory of Mind (ToM) in dynamic, multi-party social interactions. This benchmark addresses the gap in existing datasets by assessing both Individual Affective Reasoning (IAR) and Multi-party Affective Reasoning (MPAR), which involves tracking recursive beliefs and emotions in evolving information environments. To create AffToM, a novel generation pipeline was developed that models dynamic character interactions and mental state updates. The benchmark also includes AffToM-R1, a framework that enhances MPAR performance, achieving a 13.38 percentage point improvement over its base model, though even the best-performing large multimodal models struggle with MPAR, reaching less than 60% accuracy. AI

IMPACT Introduces a new benchmark for evaluating AI's ability to understand complex social dynamics and emotions in multi-party interactions.

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    AffToM: Benchmarking Recursive Affective Theory of Mind in Dynamic Multi-Party Interactions

    Understanding emotion in realistic social interactions requires more than recognizing facial expressions or assigning affective labels. The same event can elicit different emotions depending on what each participant knows, what they believe others know or feel, and how these nest…

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