EgoMemReason is a new benchmark showing that even the best multimodal models achieve only 39.6% accuracy on reasoning tasks that require integrating sparse evidence across days in egocentric video.
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Video-MMMU: Evaluating Knowledge Acquisition from Multi-Discipline Professional Videos
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Humans acquire knowledge through three cognitive stages: perceiving information, comprehending knowledge, and adapting knowledge to solve novel problems. Videos serve as an effective medium for this learning process, facilitating a progression through these cognitive stages. However, existing video benchmarks fail to systematically evaluate the knowledge acquisition capabilities in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). To address this gap, we introduce Video-MMMU, a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary benchmark designed to assess LMMs' ability to acquire and utilize knowledge from videos. Video-MMMU features a curated collection of 300 expert-level videos and 900 human-annotated questions across six disciplines, evaluating knowledge acquisition through stage-aligned question-answer pairs: Perception, Comprehension, and Adaptation. A proposed knowledge gain metric, {\Delta}knowledge, quantifies improvement in performance after video viewing. Evaluation of LMMs reveals a steep decline in performance as cognitive demands increase and highlights a significant gap between human and model knowledge acquisition, underscoring the need for methods to enhance LMMs' capability to learn and adapt from videos.
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MuseBench shows state-of-the-art MLLMs achieve only 48.29% accuracy on intent-level audiovisual arts understanding versus 87.18% for human experts.
ZPPO improves distillation to small vision-language models by using binary and negative candidate prompts plus a replay buffer for hard questions, outperforming standard distillation and GRPO on a 31-benchmark suite with largest gains at the 0.8B scale.
MLLMs fail to detect absent correct answers in video QA tasks across three evaluation settings, defaulting to distractors even with chain-of-thought prompting.
VideoKR supplies 315K knowledge-intensive video reasoning examples and a dedicated benchmark, with experiments indicating post-training gains on reasoning tasks that require both video content and external knowledge.
VSTAT benchmark shows state-of-the-art MLLMs perform far below humans and only modestly above answer-prior baselines on visual state tracking, failing at visual perception despite correct textual reasoning.
Moment-Video benchmark shows top video MLLM achieves only 39.6% accuracy on momentary visual event tasks, with most open-source models below 25%.
VideoOdyssey is a new benchmark featuring ultra-long videos (avg. 109 min) across 11 domains with multi-level continuous certificates (avg. 16 min for visual, 12.8 min for audio-visual) to diagnose MLLM limitations in continuous reasoning and omni-modal perception.
GRASP is a large-scale dataset and benchmark for social reasoning grounded in gaze and gesture events in multi-person videos, with Social Grounding Reward (SGR) proposed to improve model performance on GRASP-Bench.
AdaFocus achieves better accuracy on long-video benchmarks with roughly 33 times fewer visual tokens by combining query-aware adaptive sampling and zero-cache disk-based refinement.
VEBENCH is the first benchmark with 3.9K videos and 3,080 human-verified QA pairs that measures LMMs on video editing technique recognition and operation simulation, revealing a large gap to human performance.
FCMBench-Video is a new benchmark with 1,200 videos and 11k QA instances for evaluating Video-MLLMs on document video understanding across 28 document types.
GeoMMBench reveals deficiencies in current multimodal LLMs for geoscience tasks while GeoMMAgent demonstrates that tool-integrated agents achieve significantly higher performance.
EvoDiagram uses a coordinated multi-agent system and design knowledge evolution to generate editable diagrams via canvas schema, with a new CanvasBench benchmark showing strong performance over baselines.
MuRGAt benchmark reveals that strong multimodal models frequently hallucinate citations in complex reasoning tasks despite correct answers, exposing a gap between internal reasoning and verifiable attribution.
VideoP2R separates perception and reasoning in a process-aware RFT pipeline with a new CoT dataset and PA-GRPO rewards, reaching SOTA on six of seven video benchmarks.
Video-Holmes benchmark shows top MLLMs achieve at most 45% accuracy on tasks needing integration of multiple clues from suspense films, unlike existing perception-focused tests.
Video-R1 uses temporal-aware RL and mixed datasets to boost video reasoning in MLLMs, with a 7B model reaching 37.1% on VSI-Bench and surpassing GPT-4o.
EFlow improves long-video QA by separating clip-finding from answering and adding a confidence trigger that re-reads the full video when unsure.
CineCap combines structured reasoning and RL rewards to outperform baselines on cinematographic video captioning using a new 472-pair benchmark.
CARE uses exponential moving average competence estimates to progressively shift RL rewards from exploration-oriented long reasoning to efficiency-oriented concise reasoning in video-MLLMs, with batch normalization and posterior amplification, yielding accuracy gains and shorter traces.
CF-GRPO creates a consensus frame prior from intrinsic video cues and aligns it with model frame-use scores via a reward signal to enable evidence-aware reasoning in Video-MLLMs without temporal annotations.
AVIS is an adaptive policy that jointly scales visual context via key-based token pruning and reasoning via difficulty-predicted self-consistency to improve the accuracy-compute curve on image and video tasks.
Introduces Ego-MC-Bench benchmark and Ego-CoMist synthetic dataset showing that fine-tuning video LLMs on proactive mistake corrections improves performance especially for smaller models.
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EgoMemReason: A Memory-Driven Reasoning Benchmark for Long-Horizon Egocentric Video Understanding
EgoMemReason is a new benchmark showing that even the best multimodal models achieve only 39.6% accuracy on reasoning tasks that require integrating sparse evidence across days in egocentric video.
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MuseBench: Benchmarking Intent-Level Audiovisual Arts Understanding in MLLMs
MuseBench shows state-of-the-art MLLMs achieve only 48.29% accuracy on intent-level audiovisual arts understanding versus 87.18% for human experts.
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Zone of Proximal Policy Optimization: Teacher in Prompts, Not Gradients
ZPPO improves distillation to small vision-language models by using binary and negative candidate prompts plus a replay buffer for hard questions, outperforming standard distillation and GRPO on a 31-benchmark suite with largest gains at the 0.8B scale.
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When No Answer Is Correct: Diagnosing Absent Answer Detection for MLLMs in Video Understanding
MLLMs fail to detect absent correct answers in video QA tasks across three evaluation settings, defaulting to distractors even with chain-of-thought prompting.
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VideoKR: Towards Knowledge- and Reasoning-Intensive Video Understanding
VideoKR supplies 315K knowledge-intensive video reasoning examples and a dedicated benchmark, with experiments indicating post-training gains on reasoning tasks that require both video content and external knowledge.
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Benchmarking Visual State Tracking in Multimodal Video Understanding
VSTAT benchmark shows state-of-the-art MLLMs perform far below humans and only modestly above answer-prior baselines on visual state tracking, failing at visual perception despite correct textual reasoning.
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Moment-Video: Diagnosing Temporal Fidelity of Video MLLMs on Momentary Visual Events
Moment-Video benchmark shows top video MLLM achieves only 39.6% accuracy on momentary visual event tasks, with most open-source models below 25%.
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VideoOdyssey: A Benchmark for Ultra-Long-Context and Omni-Modal Video Understanding
VideoOdyssey is a new benchmark featuring ultra-long videos (avg. 109 min) across 11 domains with multi-level continuous certificates (avg. 16 min for visual, 12.8 min for audio-visual) to diagnose MLLM limitations in continuous reasoning and omni-modal perception.
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GRASP: Learning to Ground Social Reasoning in Multi-Person Non-Verbal Interactions
GRASP is a large-scale dataset and benchmark for social reasoning grounded in gaze and gesture events in multi-person videos, with Social Grounding Reward (SGR) proposed to improve model performance on GRASP-Bench.
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AdaFocus: Adaptive Relevance-Diversity Sampling with Zero-Cache Look-back for Efficient Long Video Understanding
AdaFocus achieves better accuracy on long-video benchmarks with roughly 33 times fewer visual tokens by combining query-aware adaptive sampling and zero-cache disk-based refinement.
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VEBench:Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Real-World Video Editing
VEBENCH is the first benchmark with 3.9K videos and 3,080 human-verified QA pairs that measures LMMs on video editing technique recognition and operation simulation, revealing a large gap to human performance.
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FCMBench-Video: Benchmarking Document Video Intelligence
FCMBench-Video is a new benchmark with 1,200 videos and 11k QA instances for evaluating Video-MLLMs on document video understanding across 28 document types.
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GeoMMBench and GeoMMAgent: Toward Expert-Level Multimodal Intelligence in Geoscience and Remote Sensing
GeoMMBench reveals deficiencies in current multimodal LLMs for geoscience tasks while GeoMMAgent demonstrates that tool-integrated agents achieve significantly higher performance.
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EvoDiagram: Agentic Editable Diagram Creation via Design Expertise Evolution
EvoDiagram uses a coordinated multi-agent system and design knowledge evolution to generate editable diagrams via canvas schema, with a new CanvasBench benchmark showing strong performance over baselines.
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Multimodal Fact-Level Attribution for Verifiable Reasoning
MuRGAt benchmark reveals that strong multimodal models frequently hallucinate citations in complex reasoning tasks despite correct answers, exposing a gap between internal reasoning and verifiable attribution.
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VIDEOP2R: Video Understanding from Perception to Reasoning
VideoP2R separates perception and reasoning in a process-aware RFT pipeline with a new CoT dataset and PA-GRPO rewards, reaching SOTA on six of seven video benchmarks.
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Video-Holmes: Can MLLM Think Like Holmes for Complex Video Reasoning?
Video-Holmes benchmark shows top MLLMs achieve at most 45% accuracy on tasks needing integration of multiple clues from suspense films, unlike existing perception-focused tests.
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Video-R1: Reinforcing Video Reasoning in MLLMs
Video-R1 uses temporal-aware RL and mixed datasets to boost video reasoning in MLLMs, with a 7B model reaching 37.1% on VSI-Bench and surpassing GPT-4o.
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EFlow: Learning Evidence Flow for Long-Video Reasoning with Adaptive Reflection
EFlow improves long-video QA by separating clip-finding from answering and adding a confidence trigger that re-reads the full video when unsure.
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CineCap: Structured Reasoning with Spatio-Temporal Anchors for Cinematographic Video Captioning
CineCap combines structured reasoning and RL rewards to outperform baselines on cinematographic video captioning using a new 472-pair benchmark.
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CARE: Competence-Aware Reward Shaping for Adaptive Reasoning Length in Video-MLLMs
CARE uses exponential moving average competence estimates to progressively shift RL rewards from exploration-oriented long reasoning to efficiency-oriented concise reasoning in video-MLLMs, with batch normalization and posterior amplification, yielding accuracy gains and shorter traces.
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Reasoning as Intersection: Consensus-Frame Alignment for Visual Focus in Video-MLLMs
CF-GRPO creates a consensus frame prior from intrinsic video cues and aligns it with model frame-use scores via a reward signal to enable evidence-aware reasoning in Video-MLLMs without temporal annotations.
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AVIS: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Vision-Language Models
AVIS is an adaptive policy that jointly scales visual context via key-based token pruning and reasoning via difficulty-predicted self-consistency to improve the accuracy-compute curve on image and video tasks.
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Streaming Interventions: Can Video Large Language Models Correct Mistakes as They Occur?
Introduces Ego-MC-Bench benchmark and Ego-CoMist synthetic dataset showing that fine-tuning video LLMs on proactive mistake corrections improves performance especially for smaller models.
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Harnessing Streaming Video in the Wild
Presents Streaming-Train-248K dataset, Streaming Harness system, and Streaming-Eval benchmark to enable VLMs for proactive, memory-equipped streaming video understanding.
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StoryVideoQA: Scaling Deep Video Understanding with a Large-Scale, Multi-Genre and Auto-Generated Dataset
StoryVideoQA provides the largest auto-generated deep video understanding dataset to date with 363K QAs across TV and movies, paired with the PlotTree agent for hierarchical plot-based reasoning that existing VideoQA models struggle to match.
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MetaphorVU: Towards Metaphorical Video Understanding
Introduces the first benchmark for metaphorical video understanding, identifies MLLM weaknesses in cross-domain mapping, and proposes an inference-time enhancement using a knowledge graph.
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Cambrian-P: Pose-Grounded Video Understanding
Adding per-frame camera-pose supervision to a video MLLM improves spatial and general video question answering by 2–6% and yields SOTA streaming pose estimates on ScanNet.
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EvoVid: Temporal-Centric Self-Evolution for Video Large Language Models
EvoVid proposes a temporal-centric self-evolution framework for Video-LLMs that uses temporal-aware Questioner and temporal-grounded Solver rewards to improve performance directly from unannotated videos.
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OProver: A Unified Framework for Agentic Formal Theorem Proving
OProver-32B achieves top Pass@32 scores on MiniF2F, ProverBench, and PutnamBench by combining continued pretraining with iterative agentic proving, retrieval, SFT on repairs, and RL on unresolved cases using a 6.86M-proof dataset.
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Video-Zero: Self-Evolution Video Understanding
Video-Zero is an annotation-free Questioner-Solver co-evolution framework that centers self-evolution on temporally localized evidence to improve video VLMs.
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EchoPrune: Interpreting Redundancy as Temporal Echoes for Efficient VideoLLMs
EchoPrune prunes video tokens via query relevance and temporal reconstruction error to let VideoLLMs handle up to 20x more frames under fixed budget with reported gains in accuracy and speed.
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Make Each Token Count: Towards Improving Long-Context Performance with KV Cache Eviction
A unified learnable KV eviction policy with cross-layer calibration reduces memory and matches or exceeds full-cache performance on long-context tasks by retaining useful tokens and limiting attention dilution.
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Beyond Perceptual Shortcuts: Causal-Inspired Debiasing Optimization for Generalizable Video Reasoning in Lightweight MLLMs
VideoThinker improves lightweight MLLM video reasoning by creating a bias model to capture shortcuts and applying causal debiasing policy optimization to push away from them, achieving SOTA efficiency with minimal data.
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Video-ToC: Video Tree-of-Cue Reasoning
Video-ToC adds tree-guided cue localization, demand-based RL rewards, and automated datasets to video LLMs, reporting better results than prior methods on six understanding benchmarks plus a hallucination test.
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Mastering PokeGym: Graph-Guided Multimodal Evolution at Test Time
The manuscript body introduces PokeGym, a vision-only automated 3D-game benchmark, while the abstract claims a G-EvoMAC method and 60.18% success rate absent from the body.
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Watch Before You Answer: Learning from Visually Grounded Post-Training
Filtering post-training data to visually grounded questions improves VLM video understanding performance by up to 6.2 points using 69% of the data.
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Video-MME-v2: Towards the Next Stage in Benchmarks for Comprehensive Video Understanding
Video-MME-v2 is a new benchmark that applies progressive visual-to-reasoning levels and non-linear group scoring to expose gaps in video MLLM capabilities.
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Reinforce to Learn, Elect to Reason: A Dual Paradigm for Video Reasoning
RLER trains video-reasoning models with three task-driven RL rewards for evidence production and elects the best answer from a few candidates via evidence consistency scoring, yielding 6.3% average gains on eight benchmarks.
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Graph-to-Frame RAG: Visual-Space Knowledge Fusion for Training-Free and Auditable Video Reasoning
G2F-RAG converts retrieved knowledge subgraphs into a single visual reasoning frame appended to videos, enabling training-free and interpretable improvements for LMM-based video reasoning on knowledge-intensive tasks.
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STRIVE: Structured Spatiotemporal Exploration for Reinforcement Learning in Video Question Answering
STRIVE stabilizes RL for video QA by creating spatiotemporal video variants and using importance-aware sampling, yielding consistent gains over baselines on six benchmarks.
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LongVT: Incentivizing "Thinking with Long Videos" via Native Tool Calling
LongVT adds native video-cropping tool calling to LMMs for interleaved multimodal chain-of-tool-thought reasoning on long videos and releases VideoSIAH data for training and evaluation.
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Boosting Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models via Activation Replay
Activation Replay boosts multimodal reasoning in post-trained LMMs by replaying low-entropy activations from base models to RLVR counterparts at test time via visual token manipulation.
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Cambrian-S: Towards Spatial Supersensing in Video
Cambrian-S introduces VSI-SUPER benchmarks for long-horizon spatial recall and counting, shows data scaling yields 30% gains on existing tests, and demonstrates a self-supervised next-latent predictor using surprise outperforms baselines on the new spatial supersensing tasks.
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MultiToP: Learning to Patch Visual Tokens to Mitigate Hallucinations in Video Large Multimodal Models
MultiToP mitigates hallucinations in video multimodal models by training a Visual Token Patcher with information-guided rank calibration to selectively replace unreliable tokens, yielding 50.60% F1 gain on Vript-HAL and 18.58% accuracy gain on ActivityNet-QA.
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Test-Time Scaling in Multimodal Foundation Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Generation and Reasoning
A survey of test-time scaling for multimodal foundation models that introduces a three-way taxonomy of sampling, feedback, and search approaches along with applications and benchmarks.
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Self-Evolving Spatial Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Geometric Logic Consistency
SAGE adds duality consistency as an auxiliary reward in GRPO training with a dynamic operation pool to improve spatial reasoning robustness and generalization in VLMs.
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VISD: Enhancing Video Reasoning via Structured Self-Distillation
VISD proposes structured self-distillation with a multi-dimensional judge model and direction-magnitude decoupling to improve token-level credit assignment and convergence speed in VideoLLM reasoning training.
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The category of Whittaker modules over the Cartan Type Lie algebra $\bar{S}_2$
Classifies all simple Whittaker bar S_2-modules in each block Omega and establishes two category equivalences, one to finite-dimensional modules over the parabolic subalgebra bar S_2^{>=0} and one to H_1-fmod.
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MACS: Modality-Aware Capacity Scaling for Efficient Multimodal MoE Inference
MACS reduces Expert Parallelism stragglers in MoE MLLMs via entropy-weighted visual token load and dynamic modality-adaptive expert capacity, without retraining.