Bengali, spoken by over 230 million people, remains severely under-resourced in spoken language research. Existing open Bengali ASR corpora are confined to short, read or crowd-sourced speech and lack...
Lipi-Ghor is a large-scale, weakly-supervised Bengali speech corpus containing 885 hours of audio from 998 YouTube videos across 17 domains, each annotated in SSTT format with speaker diarization and timestamps. It is the first Bengali corpus to combine extensive coverage with speaker-diarized, long-form audio annotations, and the authors provide a replicable pipeline for building similar resources in other languages. The dataset includes a human-annotated gold evaluation split and is released under CC‑BY‑4.0, with raw audio withheld.
By Sanjid Hasan, A H M Fuad, Risalat Labib, Bayazid Hasan Simon
arXiv:2606. 14762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As video content continues to expand across educational platforms, recorded lectures, and live-streamed entertainment, the need for efficient and structured analysis of long-form footage has increased \cite{1}.
By Julian Abelarde, Hugo Garrido-Lestache Belinchon
LF-VideoQA is a new dataset for long‑form, open‑ended question answering over narrative videos, built around theory‑of‑mind questions that require reasoning across scenes averaging 23 minutes. It contains over 6,300 question‑answer‑rubric triples generated automatically from annotated screenplays and validated by humans. The dataset challenges current vision‑language models, showing that even oracle models fall short and that visual evidence is essential for answering these questions.
By Shaden Shaar, Bradon Thymes, Majd Aldaye, Claire Cardie, Bharath Hariharan
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By Daniel Chenyu Lin, Michael Freeman, John Thickstun
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By Dan Ben-Ami, Gabriele Serussi, Kobi Cohen, Chaim Baskin
arXiv:2606. 14591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have shown strong performance on a wide range of audio understanding tasks, yet they still struggle with complex audio reasoning.
By Hui Geng, Yi Su, Han Yin, Tianjiao Wan, Qisheng Xu, Jiaxin Chen, Zijian Gao, Hengzhu Liu, Xie Chen, Kele Xu
Video-IFBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well multimodal large language models (MLLMs) follow user-specified instructions in video understanding tasks. It introduces an instruction taxonomy with four templates—single-task, multi-task, selection, and nested—covering 32 task types and 39 constraint categories that span semantic and format requirements. The benchmark was built using a semi-automatic pipeline that combines MLLMs, programmatic processing, and human verification, producing 1.5K samples, and a large-scale evaluation of over 20 recent MLLMs shows that instruction following remains difficult, especially for complex constraints and conditional structures.
By Hongbo Liu, Peixian Chen, Sihan Liu, Peiyuan Zhang, Kai Zou, Dian Zheng, Xiaoxing Hu, Yuhao Dong, Mengdan Zhang, Yunhang Shen, Haoyu Cao, Wei Liu, Weibo Gu, Xing Sun, Shengjie Zhao
arXiv:2606. 03635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding short online videos involves more than identifying visible objects and actions; video makers often include an underlying message or purpose in the clip.
By Issar Tzachor, Michael Green, Rami Ben-Ari
arXiv:2606. 07924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents our system description for the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via MultimodAl Retrieval (MAGMaR).
By Jiaxin Dai, Zehang Wei, Jiamin Yan, Xiang Xiang
arXiv:2502. 16584v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in audio tokenization have significantly enhanced the integration of audio capabilities into large language models (LLMs).
By Liumeng Xue, Ziya Zhou, Jiahao Pan, Zixuan Li, Shuai Fan, Yinghao Ma, Sitong Cheng, Dongchao Yang, Haohan Guo, Yujia Xiao, Xinsheng Wang, Zixuan Shen, Chuanbo Zhu, Xinshen Zhang, Tianchi Liu, Ruibin Yuan, Zeyue Tian, Haohe Liu, Xingjian Du, Emmanouil Benetos, Ge Zhang, Yike Guo, Wei Xue
arXiv:2505.13520v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Textbook question answering (TQA) is a complex task, requiring the interpretation of complex multimodal context. Although recent advances hav...
By Hessa Alawwad, Usman Naseem, Areej Alhothali, Ali Alkhathlan, Amani Jamal