arXiv:2601. 01095v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive progress in vision-language reasoning, yet their ability to understand temporally unfolding narratives in videos remains underexplored.
arXiv:2608.28699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding long-form video remains a fundamental challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Sparse frame sampling fails to capture fine...
As generative multimedia evolves from static image synthesis to complex, interleaved visual narratives, a foundational bottleneck has emerged: the judgment crisis. While human perception naturally synthesizes the temporal and logical flow of a story, automated evaluation systems remain largely "blind" to sequential continuity, often failing to distinguish between a coherent narrative and a semantically shuffled or contradictory sequence.
STRAND is a new benchmark that tests multimodal large language models’ ability to track objects, their states, and relationships over time in videos. It evaluates intermediate reasoning by breaking queries into sub‑questions and uses Faithful Accuracy to ensure all parts of an answer are correct. The authors also propose an object‑centric framework that builds structured trajectories and shows reduced hallucinations and better temporal consistency compared to existing models.
CinematicVQA is a new benchmark for evaluating large vision‑language models on film‑grammar reasoning. It introduces the Cinematic Scene Graph, a structured representation linking filming techniques to perceptual effects and narrative functions, and tests models on tasks beyond low‑level technique recognition. The study finds a semantic gap where models excel at describing visuals but struggle to identify underlying techniques, and shows that fine‑tuning improves performance on narrative function and multi‑hop reasoning.
MVVBench is a new benchmark for multi‑view video reasoning that tests vision‑language models on tasks requiring integration of spatial and temporal evidence across multiple, often non‑overlapping camera streams. The benchmark contains questions that cannot be answered from any single view or single moment, forcing models to jointly reason across views and time. It evaluates six capabilities—including attribute identification, relative distance, camera pose, and compositional counting—and provides human‑authored QA, rigorous verification, and detailed error analysis. "whyItMatters":"The benchmark offers a rigorous evaluation of 4D multi‑view reasoning and a foundation for future progress toward reliable embodied perception."
arXiv:2605. 08974v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced video understanding, they remain highly prone to hallucinations in dynamic scenes.
arXiv:2606. 00987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong visual understanding and language-guided grounding abilities, yet their capacity for multi-temporal visual reasoning remains underexplored.
arXiv:2601. 07761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) face a fundamental dilemma in video reasoning: they are caught between the prohibitive computational costs of verbose reasoning and the hallucination risks of efficient, ungrounded approaches.
The paper introduces the Multi-Instruction Multi-Shot Long-Video Editing (MMLVE) task, aiming to enable consistent editing of long videos with multiple instructions. It proposes an agentic editing framework that combines Large Language Models and Vision-Language Models for shot-level decoupling and precise instruction parsing. The authors also present the MMLVE-Bench dataset and evaluation metrics, showing that their MMLVE-Agent outperforms existing state‑of‑the‑art methods by eliminating hallucinations and preserving temporal consistency.
arXiv:2607. 11798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-form audio description (AD) requires more than describing visible actions: it must preserve characters, events, relationships, and story context across scenes so that blind and low-vision (BLV) audiences can follow a film.
arXiv:2609.16070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation reformulates item prediction as semantic identifier generation, yet episodic content introduces a fundamentally different s...
The paper introduces the Multi-Instruction Multi-Shot Long-Video Editing (MMLVE) task, aiming to edit long videos with multiple instructions while maintaining consistency across shots, decoupling instructions, and preserving spatiotemporal structure. It proposes an agentic editing framework that combines Large Language Models and Vision‑Language Models for shot-level decoupling and precise instruction parsing. A new dataset, MMLVE‑Bench, and three evaluation metrics are created to benchmark this task, and experiments show the proposed MMLVE‑Agent outperforms existing closed‑source state‑of‑the‑art methods by eliminating hallucinations and ensuring seamless transitions.