arxivcs.CV2026-07-20
Style over Substance: A Shortcut Audit of Emotion-Description Preference Evaluation
Jiabing Yang, Yixiang Chen, Yuan Xu, Qisen Ma, Tao Yu, Peiyan Li, et al.
Preference over model-generated emotion descriptions is emerging as a standard evaluation metric for multimodal emotion understanding, exemplified by the MER2026 MER-Prefer track on EmoPrefer. Such benchmarks assume that predicting the preferred description requires grounded cros…