Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition via In-Context Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06600v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:17:09 GMT
• Title: Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition via In-Context Learning
• Authors: Zhaochun Ren, Zhou Yang, Chenglong Ye, Haizhou Sun, Chao Chen, Xiaofei Zhu, Xiangwen Liao,
• Abstract summary: Fine-grained emotion recognition aims to identify the emotional type in queries through reasoning and decision-making processes.<n>Recent methods use In-Context Learning (ICL), enhancing the representation of queries through semantically similar examples.<n>This paper investigates decision-making in fine-grained emotion recognition through prototype theory.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Fine-grained emotion recognition aims to identify the emotional type in queries through reasoning and decision-making processes, playing a crucial role in various systems. Recent methods use In-Context Learning (ICL), enhancing the representation of queries in the reasoning process through semantically similar examples, while further improving emotion recognition by explaining the reasoning mechanisms. However, these methods enhance the reasoning process but overlook the decision-making process. This paper investigates decision-making in fine-grained emotion recognition through prototype theory. We show that ICL relies on similarity matching between query representations and emotional prototypes within the model, where emotion-accurate representations are critical. However, semantically similar examples often introduce emotional discrepancies, hindering accurate representations and causing errors. To address this, we propose Emotion In-Context Learning (EICL), which introduces emotionally similar examples and uses a dynamic soft-label strategy to improve query representations in the emotion reasoning process. A two-stage exclusion strategy is then employed to assess similarity from multiple angles, further optimizing the decision-making process. Extensive experiments show that EICL significantly outperforms ICL on multiple datasets.

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