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MER-R1: Multimodal Emotion Reasoning via Slow-Fast Thinking Synergy

arXiv:2606.27652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We find that explicit reasoning does not necessarily translate into better multimodal emotion recognition (MER) accuracy, even though it makes predictions more interpretable. Specifically, for reasoning-based MLLMs, fast thinking by triggering direct answers often outperf