REACT 2026: The Fourth Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge: Personalised MAFRG and Appropriate EEG Reaction Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07935v1
• Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:52:38 GMT
• Title: REACT 2026: The Fourth Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge: Personalised MAFRG and Appropriate EEG Reaction Prediction
• Abstract summary: In dyadic interactions, various human facial reactions could be appropriate for responding to each human speaker behaviour.<n>We propose the REACT 2026 challenge encouraging the development and benchmarking of Machine Learning (ML) models.<n>This introduces a new one-to-many personalised facial reaction generation setting combining human expressive behavioural, affective and neurophysiological signals.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: In dyadic interactions, various human facial reactions could be appropriate for responding to each human speaker behaviour. Following the successful organisation of the REACT 2023, 2024 and 2025 challenge series, a body of generative deep learning (DL) models have been developed for the problem of multiple appropriate facial reaction generation (MAFRG). This year, we propose the REACT 2026 challenge encouraging the development and benchmarking of Machine Learning (ML) models that can generate multiple personalised, appropriate, diverse, realistic and synchronised human-style facial reactions expressed by a specific human listener for responding to each given speaker behaviour. As a key of the challenge, we continuously provide challenge participants with MARS dataset introduced by REACT 2025 but additionally provide individual-level Big-Five personality labels and EEG recordings. This introduces a new one-to-many personalised facial reaction generation setting combining human expressive behavioural, affective and neurophysiological signals, which remains largely unexplored in current dyadic interaction modelling. This paper also presents the challenge guidelines and new baselines on the four proposed sub-challenges: Offline generic and personalised MAFRG as well as Online generic and personalised MAFRG, respectively, which are publicly available at https://github.com/reactmultimodalchallenge/baseline_react2026.

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