Dynamic Emotion and Personality Profiling for Multimodal Deception Detection

arXiv cs.CL / 4/21/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper introduces a multimodal deception-detection dataset (DDEP) that includes sample-level dynamic annotations for both emotion and personality factors.
  • It proposes a multi-model, multi-prompt annotation scheme along with strict label-quality evaluation to improve the reliability of the training labels.
  • The authors develop Rel-DDEP, an adaptive reliability-weighted fusion framework that models uncertainty via mapping modal features into a high-dimensional Gaussian distribution space.
  • Rel-DDEP uses reliability-weighted fusion plus alignment and sorting constraints to jointly detect deception, emotion, and personality.
  • Experiments on MDPE and DDEP show consistent gains over state-of-the-art baselines, with F1 improvements of 2.53% (deception), 2.66% (emotion), and 9.30% (personality).

Abstract

Deception detection is of great significance for ensuring information security and conducting public opinion analysis, with personality factors and emotion cues playing a critical role. However, existing methods lack sample-level dynamic annotations for emotions and personality.In this paper, we propose an innovative multi-model multi-prompt annotation scheme and a strict label quality evaluation standard, and establish a multimodal joint detection dataset DDEP for deception, emotion, and personality. Meanwhile, we propose Rel-DDEP, an adaptive reliability-weighted fusion framework. Our framework quantifies uncertainty by mapping modal features to a high-dimensional Gaussian distribution space. It then performs reliability-weighted fusion and incorporates an alignment module and a sorting constraint module to achieve joint detection of deception, emotion, and personality. Experimental results on the MDPE and DDEP datasets show that our Rel-DDEP significantly outperforms the existing state-of-the-art baseline models in three tasks. The F1 score of the deception detection increases by 2.53%, that of the emotion detection increases by 2.66%, and that of the personality detection increases by 9.30%. The experiments fully verify the necessity of annotating dynamic emotion and personality labels for each sample and the effectiveness of reliability-weighted fusion.