Video-Language Model Evaluation

Overview

The field develops tests and metrics for whether models can answer questions, describe events, localize evidence, and follow instructions in videos, including long, streaming, and audio-visual settings. Common approaches include human-annotated benchmarks, controlled tests that shuffle frames or alter evidence, and measures of temporal grounding, hallucination, efficiency, and response timing. Results often show that strong question-answering scores can coexist with weak event ordering, evidence localization, and resistance to misleading cues. A central challenge is separating genuine use of video evidence from shortcuts, while making results comparable across models and realistic about deployment constraints.

Latest papers

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103 papers20 papers in the last four weeks, down 5% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Accuracy Without Grounding: Diagnosing Visual Dependency Dissociation in Video LLM Benchmarks

    Jul 14, 2026Jae Joong LeeVLM EvaluationVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  2. Each Judge Its Own Yardstick: Discovering Per-VLM Taxonomies for Physical Video Evaluation

    Jun 22, 2026Yu Cao, Ziquan Liu, Zhensong Zhang +3VLM EvaluationPhysical Consistency in Video Generation

  3. Streaming Interventions: Can Video Large Language Models Correct Mistakes as They Occur?

    Jun 8, 2026Apratim Bhattacharyya, Shweta Mahajan, Sanjay Haresh +5LLM Fine-TuningSynthetic Data Generation

  4. VCIFBench: Evaluating Complex Instruction Following for Video Understanding

    Jun 3, 2026Huangchen Xu, Yuan Wu, Yi ChangVLM EvaluationVideo Understanding

  5. Pop-Up Distractions Reveal Bag-of-Events Behavior in Video Large Language Models

    May 26, 2026Oscar Chew, Serhii Honcharenko, Qian-Hui Chen +4Temporal Video GroundingVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  6. When Vision Speaks for Sound

    May 13, 2026Xiaofei Wen, Wenjie Jacky Mo, Xingyu Fu +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio-Visual Understanding

  7. EvoStreaming: Your Offline Video Model Is a Natively Streaming Assistant

    May 11, 2026Zichen Wen, Boxue Yang, Junlong Ke +5Streaming Video UnderstandingSelf-Training

  8. Distorted or Fabricated? A Survey on Hallucination in Video LLMs

    Apr 14, 2026Yiyang Huang, Yitian Zhang, Yizhou Wang +4VLM HallucinationVideo-Language Models

  9. SiMing-Bench: Evaluating Procedural Correctness from Continuous Interactions in Clinical Skill Videos

    Apr 10, 2026Xiyang Huang, Jiawei Lin, Keying Wu +9Video-Language Model EvaluationMultimodal Model Evaluation

  10. How Should Video LLMs Output Time? An Analysis of Efficient Temporal Grounding Paradigms

    Apr 10, 2026Shengji Jin, Yuanhao Zou, Victor Zhu +2Temporal Video GroundingEfficient VLM Inference

  11. BoxComm: Benchmarking Category-Aware Commentary Generation and Narration Rhythm in Boxing

    Apr 6, 2026Kaiwen Wang, Kaili Zheng, Rongrong Deng +3Sports Video AnalysisVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  12. A Simple Baseline for Streaming Video Understanding

    Apr 2, 2026Yujiao Shen, Shulin Tian, Jingkang Yang +1Streaming Video UnderstandingStreaming Inference

  13. CL-VISTA: Benchmarking Continual Learning in Video Large Language Models

    Apr 1, 2026Haiyang Guo, Yichen Shi, Fei Zhu +6Continual Learning for VLMsVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  14. A Benchmarking Methodology to Assess Open-Source Video Large Language Models in Automatic Captioning of News Videos

    Mar 29, 2026David Miranda Paredes, Jose M. Saavedra, Marcelo PizarroVideo Caption EvaluationVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  15. MVPBench: A Multi-Video Perception Evaluation Benchmark for Multi-Modal Video Understanding

    Mar 24, 2026Purui Bai, Tao Wu, Jiayang Sun +3Video UnderstandingVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  16. StreamingEval: A Unified Evaluation Protocol towards Realistic Streaming Video Understanding

    Mar 23, 2026Guowei Tang, Tianwen Qian, Huanran Zheng +2Streaming Video UnderstandingVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  17. Leum-VL Technical Report

    Mar 20, 2026Yuxuan He, Chaiming Huang, Yifan Wu +4Video UnderstandingVideo-Language Models

  18. GenVideoLens: Where LVLMs Fall Short in AI-Generated Video Detection?

    Mar 19, 2026Yueying Zou, Pei Pei Li, Zekun Li +4Synthetic Video Detection BenchmarksDeepfake Detection

  19. Seeking Universal Shot Language Understanding Solutions

    Mar 19, 2026Haoxin Liu, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Zhiyuan Zhao +2Video UnderstandingVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  20. INFACT: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Induced Faithfulness and Factuality Hallucinations in Video-LLMs

    Mar 12, 2026Junqi Yang, Yuecong Min, Jie Zhang +2Video-Language Model EvaluationVideo-Language Models

  21. Understanding the Performance Plateau in Text-to-Video Retrieval: A Comprehensive Empirical and Linguistic Analysis

    Mar 7, 2026Maria-Eirini Pegia, Dimitrios Stefanopoulos, Björn Þór Jónsson +4Video RetrievalVideo-Language Model Evaluation