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Can Multi-Modal LLMs Provide Live Step-by-Step Task Guidance?

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Pith's one-line read Multi-modal LLMs can provide live step-by-step guidance when given streaming video input and a benchmark of timed user mistakes.

desk verdict This paper introduces a timed-mistake benchmark for live cooking guidance and a streaming baseline, but the setup uses post-hoc annotations on fixed videos so it may not prove real asynchronous performance. read the letter →

arxiv 2511.21998 v2 submitted 2025-11-27 cs.CV

Apratim Bhattacharyya , Bicheng Xu , Sanjay Haresh , Reza Pourreza , Litian Liu , Sunny Panchal , Pulkit Madan , Leonid Sigal
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The reading

This paper argues that multi-modal LLMs need to move beyond turn-based conversation to deliver real-time instructional coaching during ongoing tasks. It creates the Qualcomm Interactive Cooking benchmark from videos of users cooking that include mistakes and corrections, complete with precise timestamps for instructions and error alerts. The authors also introduce LiveMamba, a streaming model built to process video continuously and respond with feedback at the right moments. A sympathetic reader would care because capable AI assistants must monitor actions as they happen and correct errors before they compound rather than waiting for the next turn.

What carries the argument

LiveMamba, a streaming multi-modal LLM designed to process video streams asynchronously and deliver timed instructions plus mistake alerts.

What would settle it

A live user study in which participants cook while the model streams guidance and alerts, then checks whether the model's alert timestamps align with independently observed actual mistakes better than chance timing.

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Core claim

The paper establishes that effective live situated coaching requires models capable of asynchronous reaction to video streams, detection of whether instructions were executed successfully, and timely alerts to mistakes at their visual occurrence, which is supported by the Qualcomm Interactive Cooking dataset with its dense timed annotations and by LiveMamba as a streaming multi-modal baseline that processes continuous input to output guidance.

Load-bearing premise

The densely annotated timed mistake alerts in the dataset accurately reflect real user errors and allow meaningful evaluation of asynchronous real-time performance using existing video data.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • State-of-the-art multi-modal LLMs can be systematically benchmarked on their ability to deliver timely feedback during task execution.
  • The dataset enables training and evaluation of models for detecting user errors at the exact moments they appear visually.
  • Streaming architectures support asynchronous responses that match the pace of ongoing human actions rather than discrete turns.
  • AI systems for interactive coaching become feasible for situated tasks that involve physical steps and corrections.

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  • The same timed-annotation approach could extend to other procedural activities such as equipment assembly or home repair.
  • Real-time mistake alerting might reduce cumulative errors more than delayed feedback given after a task ends.
  • Pairing this capability with physical robots could allow AI to guide hands-on interactions as they unfold.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces Qualcomm Interactive Cooking, a new benchmark and dataset built on CaptainCook4D containing user mistakes during cooking tasks. It features densely annotated timed instructions, feedback, and precisely timestamped mistake alerts. The work evaluates state-of-the-art multi-modal LLMs on this benchmark for live step-by-step guidance and introduces LiveMamba, a streaming multi-modal LLM designed for asynchronous reaction to video streams, claiming to provide the first dedicated benchmark and strong baseline for live situated coaching.

Significance. If the evaluation protocol and results hold, the contribution would be significant for advancing interactive AI assistants beyond turn-based conversation toward real-time, situated coaching. The new dataset with timed mistake annotations addresses a clear gap in resources for training and evaluating asynchronous mistake detection and guidance. The introduction of LiveMamba as a streaming baseline is a concrete step forward, and the focus on video streams with corrections provides a falsifiable testbed for future models.

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  1. [Evaluation / Benchmark Setup] The central claim that the Qualcomm Interactive Cooking benchmark enables meaningful evaluation of live, situated coaching (Abstract) requires that model evaluations strictly simulate streaming input with no access to future visual information. The skeptic concern is load-bearing here: if annotations were produced offline with full video context and if LiveMamba or baseline evaluations permit any batch processing or lookahead over the clip, the reported performance would not demonstrate true asynchronous real-time capability. Clarification is needed on the exact streaming protocol, frame-by-frame input constraints, and whether any future-frame information leaks into the model or annotation process.
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  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that the dataset 'contains user mistakes during task execution' and features 'densely annotated, timed instructions and feedback messages' but provides no quantitative details on annotation density, inter-annotator agreement, or the distribution of mistake types; adding these statistics would strengthen the dataset description.

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback. We address the major comment on the evaluation and benchmark setup below.

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  1. Referee: [Evaluation / Benchmark Setup] The central claim that the Qualcomm Interactive Cooking benchmark enables meaningful evaluation of live, situated coaching (Abstract) requires that model evaluations strictly simulate streaming input with no access to future visual information. The skeptic concern is load-bearing here: if annotations were produced offline with full video context and if LiveMamba or baseline evaluations permit any batch processing or lookahead over the clip, the reported performance would not demonstrate true asynchronous real-time capability. Clarification is needed on the exact streaming protocol, frame-by-frame input constraints, and whether any future-frame information leaks into the model or annotation process.

    Authors: We agree that a strict streaming protocol without future information is essential to support our claims of live, situated coaching. In the manuscript, we describe LiveMamba as a streaming model that reacts asynchronously to video streams. To address the concern directly: model evaluations are performed by feeding frames in sequential order without providing access to subsequent frames. The annotations in the dataset were created with full context to accurately timestamp mistakes, but this does not affect the model inputs during evaluation. We will expand the experimental setup section to explicitly detail the frame-by-frame input constraints and confirm the absence of any lookahead or batch processing in the reported results. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces the Qualcomm Interactive Cooking benchmark built on CaptainCook4D with new dense timed annotations for mistakes and instructions, then evaluates existing MLLMs and proposes LiveMamba as a streaming baseline. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivations are present that reduce predictions to inputs by construction. Central claims rest on dataset creation and empirical evaluation rather than self-definitional loops, self-citation load-bearing premises, or renaming of prior results. The work is self-contained as an empirical contribution with external benchmarks for comparison.

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Multi-modal Large Language Models (LLM) have advanced conversational abilities but struggle with providing live, interactive step-by-step guidance, a key capability for future AI assistants. Effective guidance requires not only delivering instructions but also detecting their successful execution, as well as identifying and alerting users to mistakes, all of which has to happen in real-time. This requires models that are not turn-based, but that can react asynchronously to a video stream, as well as video data showing users performing tasks including mistakes and their corrections. To this end, we introduce Qualcomm Interactive Cooking, a new benchmark and dataset built upon CaptainCook4D, which contains user mistakes during task execution. Our dataset and benchmark features densely annotated, timed instructions and feedback messages, specifically including mistake alerts precisely timestamped to their visual occurrence in the video. We evaluate state-of-the-art multi-modal LLMs on the Qualcomm Interactive Cooking benchmark and introduce LiveMamba, a streaming multi-modal LLM designed for interactive instructional guidance. This work provides the first dedicated benchmark and a strong baseline for developing and evaluating on live, situated coaching.

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Figure 1. At the stage where the tomatoes are being sliced, an instruction with the desired thickness [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 1. An overview of the step-by-step task guidance scenario in our Qualcomm Interactive [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Our LIVEMAMBA model architecture. The input video stream is processed by an InternViT vision head which produces M tokens, and is then reduced to K tokens by a Q-Former. The language backbone produces feedback and invokes the Re-planner if necessary before the next instruction. 4 LIVEMAMBA for Step-by-Step Instructions To deal with the challenge of guiding a user through step-by-step instructions we propose our LIVE… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Our LIVEMAMBA is able to successfully recognize the person has added the black pepper as instructed and points out when the person should heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan, in the Qualcomm Interactive Cooking benchmark. 5.4 Turn-based Evaluation The streaming eval…
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Data samples from the main set. Left: the user prepares spicy tuna avocado wraps. Right: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Data samples from the advanced planning set. Left: the user is making ramen. Right: the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Data samples from the advanced planning set. Left: the user is preparing butter corn cup. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Predictions from our LIVEMAMBA from the main set of the Qualcomm Interactive Cooking benchmark. 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_7.png]

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