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MultivationBench

General AIMultimodal Perception

Evaluates multimodal motivation reasoning in story-driven visual narratives, using 1,000 narratives with 16,092 multi-label questions grounded in Maslow and Reiss frameworks across definition and practical reasoning tasks.

Released
2026-07-29
Readiness
Runnable
Primary field
General AI

Why it matters

Assesses whether models can reason about evolving character motivations across sequential context, an underexplored capability for social intelligence.

Motivation

Multimodal Large Language Models have sparked significant interest due to their potential for social intelligence; however, their ability to perform sequential motivation reasoning remains insufficiently studied.

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