arXiv AI By Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Haotian Xia, Kyumin Andrew Shim, Anay Putty, Jinglin Xiao, Zhuohan Liu, Leo Liu, Weining Shen

SportD: How do VLMs physically strategize?

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arXiv:2607. 14616v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can describe a scene, but can they act well within one?

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arXiv AI
Jul 17

SportD: Can VLMs Physically Strategize?

arXiv:2607. 14616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--language models have become increasingly capable of interpreting visual scenes, but it remains unclear whether they can use information to make strategically effective decisions.

By Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Haotian Xia, Akshaya Bharadhwaj, Anay Putty, Anirudh Ravishankar, Jaewoong Lee, Jinglin Xiao, Kyumin Andrew Shim, Mishika Ahuja, Nisarga Patil, Leo Liu, Zhuohan Liu, Weining Shen
arXiv AI
Sep 18

Can Vision-Language Models Judge Olympic Diving? From Reasoning to Scores in Zero-Shot Action Quality Assessment

The paper investigates whether open‑source Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) can perform zero‑shot action quality assessment (AQA) on Olympic diving videos. Using the AQA‑7 benchmark, the authors propose a regression framework that combines VLM‑generated semantic reasoning, phase‑level sub‑scores, TF‑IDF vectorization, dimensionality reduction, and ensemble learning to predict final competition scores. While individual VLMs achieve moderate Spearman correlations (<0.32), the ensemble approach boosts performance to 0.67, demonstrating that VLM‑derived textual reasoning features are more informative than raw numerical sub‑scores for AQA. whyItMatters":"The study shows that VLMs can serve as explainable, semi‑automated tools for evaluating sports performance, potentially aiding expert judging in complex, subjective Olympic events."

By Henry O. Velesaca, David Freire-Obregon, Luigi Miranda, Abel Reyes-Angulo