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AI models encode Russell's emotion model, but rare classes pose geometric challenge

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Two new arXiv papers explore the geometric properties of emotion representation in AI models. The first paper demonstrates that multimodal Transformers can perfectly align with Russell's circumplex model of affect, suggesting that the model's structure is intrinsically encoded in embeddings. The second paper argues that failures in rare-class emotion recognition are due to the geometric degeneracy of these classes on the circumplex, rather than simple class imbalance, proposing that new representations are needed to distinguish these emotions. AI

IMPACT These papers suggest that while AI models can encode complex emotional structures, achieving robust recognition of rare emotions may require new representational approaches beyond current geometric or imbalance-based methods.

RANK_REASON Two academic papers published on arXiv presenting novel research findings on emotion recognition in AI models.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Amdjed Belaref, Samir Sadok, Zineb Noumir, Renaud Seguier ·

    Data-Driven Decoding of Russell's Circumplex Model of Affect

    arXiv:2606.16843v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Affective computing increasingly relies on deep learning to represent emotions, yet latent spaces often remain opaque, high-dimensional black boxes. This paper investigates whether Transformers' embeddings recover the geometric regu…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Renaud Seguier ·

    Data-Driven Decoding of Russell's Circumplex Model of Affect

    Affective computing increasingly relies on deep learning to represent emotions, yet latent spaces often remain opaque, high-dimensional black boxes. This paper investigates whether Transformers' embeddings recover the geometric regularities of Russell's circumplex model. We unify…

  3. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Van Thong Huynh, Hong Hai Nguyen, Soo-Hyung Kim ·

    The Circumplex Degeneracy Behind the Rare-Class Limit in Affect Recognition

    arXiv:2606.15763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-the-wild expression recognition persistently fails on a few rare emotions, and the standard explanation is class imbalance. Through a controlled multi-task study on two benchmarks, we show the failure is instead a property of aff…

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