Overview

Video editing benchmarks test whether systems can make requested changes to footage while preserving everything that should remain intact. They cover settings such as compositional edits, reference-guided changes, multi-shot timelines, audio-video edits, and workflows using real footage. Evaluation combines automated visual-language model judges and rubric-based scores with measures of instruction following, edit locality, temporal consistency, and human preferences. A central challenge is that plausible-looking results may still miss instructions, alter non-target content, or fall short of professional creative quality.

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32 papers7 papers in the last four weeks, against 2 the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. Auto-Director: Leveraging Multi-Agent Collaboration for Autonomous Video Editing

    Oct 20, 2026Yuxia Chen, Wenbo Zhu, Yangguang Ji +3Video EditingAgentic Video Editing

  2. OmniXRef: A Unified Framework for Multimodal Multi-Reference Video Editing

    Oct 15, 2026Xiaoyan Cong, Tianyu Wang, Hyeonho Jeong +7Video EditingVideo Diffusion Models

  3. CrossEdit: Cross-Modal Training Enables Rich Audio-Visual Editing

    Oct 7, 2026William Chen, Prem Seetharaman, Ke Chen +10Instruction-Based Video EditingUnified Multimodal Models

  4. ViTeX-Bench: Benchmarking High-Fidelity Video Scene Text Editing

    Sep 30, 2026Xinghao Chen, Xiangbo Gao, Jiongze Yu +2Video Editing BenchmarksVideo Editing

  5. Beyond Legibility: Benchmarking Visual Text Rendering and In-Place Editing in Unified Video Generation

    Sep 29, 2026Ziying Zhang, Litao Li, Junchao Liao +4Video Editing BenchmarksVideo Editing

  6. Beyond Coherence: Benchmarking Professional Editing-Technique Execution in Multi-Shot Audio-Video Generation

    Sep 8, 2026Tianyi Zeng, Junchao Liao, Yujie Wei +9Video Editing BenchmarksAudio-Video Generation

  7. AVENUE: Audio-Video EditiNg Understanding and Evaluation

    Aug 31, 2026Hayeon Kim, Yoojin Jang, Jaejun YooVideo Editing BenchmarksInstruction-Based Video Editing

  8. Thinking on Shots: Consistent Multi-Shot Video Editing with Agentic Reasoning

    Aug 27, 2026Chenyang Wu, Fuchen Long, Binyuan Huang +4Agentic Video EditingVideo Editing

  9. RefVideo-6M: A Reliable Reference-Based Dataset for Instructional Video Editing

    Aug 26, 2026Bojia Zi, Xiaoyan Yang, Yu Zhou +7Video EditingInstruction-Based Video Editing

  10. Plans You Can Check: Verifier-Grounded Learning of an Open-Weight Planner for Executable Video-Editing

    Aug 26, 2026Haoyu Wang, Cheng Feng, Liuyang Bian +5Video EditingLLM Planning

  11. CoinVE-200K: A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset for Compositional Instruction-Guided Video Editing

    Aug 18, 2026Fuchen Long, Cong Wang, Zitao Gao +8Video EditingInstruction-Based Video Editing

  12. OmniEdit-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Instruction-based Video Editing

    Aug 5, 2026Chenxuan Miao, Yutong Feng, Yi Lu +6Video Editing BenchmarksVideo Editing

  13. MEDit-Bench: A Dataset for Evaluating Message-Driven Narrative Video Editing

    Jul 28, 2026Katsuya Ogata, Zongshang Pang, Mayu Otani +1Video Editing BenchmarksInstruction-Based Video Editing

  14. AVE-Compass: Towards Holistic Evaluation for Audio-Video Editing Abilities

    Jul 17, 2026Yuqing Wen, Yukai Huang, Qianqian Xie +6Video Editing BenchmarksAgentic Video Editing

  15. Goku: A Million-Scale Universal Dataset and Benchmark for Instruction-Based Video Editing

    Jun 29, 2026Sen Liang, Cong Wang, Zhentao Yu +8Video Editing BenchmarksVideo Editing

  16. VideoAgent: All-in-One Framework for Video Understanding and Editing

    Jun 22, 2026Hengji Zhou, Lingxuan Huang, Jian Wang +4Video Editing BenchmarksAgentic Video Editing

  17. CoVEBench: Can Video Editing Models Handle Complex Instructions?

    Jun 7, 2026Jiangtao Wu, Jiaming Wang, Yiwen He +7Video Editing BenchmarksVideo Editing

  18. JAVEDIT: Joint Audio-Visual Instruction-Guided Video Editing with Agentic Data Curation

    Jun 2, 2026Yinan Chen, Chuming Lin, Zhennan Chen +12Video Editing BenchmarksTraining Data Curation

  19. Preserve, Reveal, Expand: Faithful 4D Video Editing with Region-Aware Conditioning

    May 20, 2026Zhangchi Hu, Wenzhang Sun, Xiangchen Yin +5Video Editing BenchmarksVideo Diffusion Models

  20. VEBench:Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Real-World Video Editing

    May 5, 2026Andong Deng, Dawei Du, Zhenfang Chen +7Video Editing BenchmarksVideo Editing

  21. LIVE: Leveraging Image Manipulation Priors for Instruction-based Video Editing

    Apr 18, 2026Weicheng Wang, Zhicheng Zhang, Zhongqi Zhang +6Video Editing BenchmarksVideo Diffusion Models

  22. VEFX-Bench: A Holistic Benchmark for Generic Video Editing and Visual Effects

    Apr 17, 2026Xiangbo Gao, Sicong Jiang, Bangya Liu +12Video Editing BenchmarksVideo Editing

  23. A Benchmark and Multi-Agent System for Instruction-driven Cinematic Video Compilation

    Apr 12, 2026Peixuan Zhang, Chang Zhou, Ziyuan Zhang +8Instruction-Based Video EditingVideo Editing Benchmarks

  24. GLANCE: A Global-Local Coordination Multi-Agent Framework for Music-Grounded Non-Linear Video Editing

    Apr 6, 2026Zihao Lin, Haibo Wang, Zhiyang Xu +7Video EditingMulti-Agent Systems

  25. Kiwi-Edit: Versatile Video Editing via Instruction and Reference Guidance

    Mar 2, 2026Yiqi Lin, Guoqiang Liang, Ziyun Zeng +3Video EditingInstruction-Based Video Editing