arxiv: 2601.10611 · v4 · submitted 2026-01-15 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

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Molmo2: Open Weights and Data for Vision-Language Models with Video Understanding and Grounding

Christopher Clark , Jieyu Zhang , Zixian Ma , Jae Sung Park , Mohammadreza Salehi , Rohun Tripathi , Sangho Lee , Zhongzheng Ren

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Chris Dongjoo Kim Yinuo Yang Vincent Shao Yue Yang Weikai Huang Ziqi Gao Taira Anderson Jianrui Zhang Jitesh Jain George Stoica Winson Han Ali Farhadi Ranjay Krishna

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keywords vision-language modelsvideo understandingvideo groundingopen datasetsobject trackingvideo pointingmultimodal trainingVLM

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Molmo2 releases new open video and multi-image datasets plus a training recipe that lets an 8B model outperform other open-weight VLMs on video tasks and beat some proprietary models on pixel grounding.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that fully open weights and data for vision-language models can close the gap with proprietary systems on both high-level video understanding and fine-grained grounding. It does so by introducing nine new datasets collected without distilling from closed models, covering detailed captions, free-form QA, complex tracking queries, and a novel video pointing task. A specific training procedure using message-tree encoding, bi-directional vision attention, and token weighting is shown to turn these data into an 8B model that leads open models on short-video metrics and exceeds Gemini 3 Pro on pointing and tracking scores. If correct, this removes the previous barrier that forced open research to rely on synthetic data from proprietary systems.

Core claim

Molmo2 is a family of vision-language models trained from scratch on seven newly collected video datasets and two multi-image datasets, all created without proprietary VLMs, together with an efficient packing scheme, message-tree encoding, bi-directional attention on vision tokens, and a token-weight strategy; the resulting 8B model outperforms other open-weight and open-data models on short-video understanding, counting, and captioning while remaining competitive on long videos, and records large gains on grounding benchmarks including 35.5 versus 29.6 accuracy on video counting against Qwen3-VL and 38.4 versus 20.0 F1 on video pointing and 56.2 versus 41.1 J&F on video tracking against Gem

What carries the argument

Nine newly collected open datasets (seven video, two multi-image) paired with a training recipe that uses message-tree encoding, bi-directional attention on vision tokens, and a novel token-weight strategy.

If this is right

Open researchers can now iterate on the released data and recipe without needing access to closed VLMs.
Downstream applications that require pixel-level pointing or tracking in video become feasible with fully open models.
The same data-collection and encoding approach can be scaled to larger models while remaining fully reproducible.
Video grounding benchmarks gain stronger open baselines that proprietary systems must now surpass.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The released pointing and tracking datasets could serve as training targets for future models that output masks or trajectories directly.
Because the data are collected without proprietary teachers, the same pipeline may transfer to domains where synthetic distillation is currently blocked by policy or cost.
The efficiency gains from message-tree encoding and token weighting may generalize to other long-context multimodal training runs.

Load-bearing premise

The newly collected datasets are high-quality, diverse, and contain no leakage or bias that would inflate performance over baselines.

What would settle it

An independent team retrains a comparable 8B model on only publicly available datasets and measures no gap on the reported video-counting, pointing, or tracking metrics.

read the original abstract

Today's strongest video-language models (VLMs) remain proprietary. The strongest open-weight models either rely on synthetic data from proprietary VLMs, effectively distilling from them, or do not disclose their training data or recipe. As a result, the open-source community lacks the foundations needed to improve on the state-of-the-art video (and image) language models. Crucially, many downstream applications require more than just high-level video understanding; they require grounding -- either by pointing or by tracking in pixels. Even proprietary models lack this capability. We present Molmo2, a new family of VLMs that are state-of-the-art among open-source models and demonstrate exceptional new capabilities in point-driven grounding in single image, multi-image, and video tasks. Our key contribution is a collection of 7 new video datasets and 2 multi-image datasets, including a dataset of highly detailed video captions for pre-training, a free-form video Q&A dataset for fine-tuning, a new object tracking dataset with complex queries, and an innovative new video pointing dataset, all collected without the use of closed VLMs. We also present a training recipe for this data utilizing an efficient packing and message-tree encoding scheme, and show bi-directional attention on vision tokens and a novel token-weight strategy improves performance. Our best-in-class 8B model outperforms others in the class of open weight and data models on short videos, counting, and captioning, and is competitive on long-videos. On video-grounding Molmo2 significantly outperforms existing open-weight models like Qwen3-VL (35.5 vs 29.6 accuracy on video counting) and surpasses proprietary models like Gemini 3 Pro on some tasks (38.4 vs 20.0 F1 on video pointing and 56.2 vs 41.1 J&F on video tracking).

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Molmo2's main contribution is releasing seven new video datasets plus a training recipe that lets an 8B open model beat other open VLMs on grounding tasks.

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The main thing to know is that Molmo2 ships seven new video datasets and two multi-image ones, all collected without proprietary VLMs, along with a training recipe using packing, message-tree encoding, bi-directional vision attention, and token weighting. Their 8B model reports better numbers than other open models on short-video counting and captioning, and it edges out Qwen3-VL on video counting while beating Gemini 3 Pro on some pointing and tracking metrics. That open release of data and recipe is the part that actually moves the field forward for anyone who needs pixel-level grounding in video rather than just high-level captions. Most prior open VLMs either hide their data or distill from closed models, so having concrete new collections for detailed video captions, free-form Q&A, object tracking, and video pointing gives people something they can actually use and extend. The training details look practical and the performance deltas are stated with specific numbers, which is better than vague claims. The soft spot is data verification. The abstract says the datasets are high-quality and free of leakage, but it gives no collection protocol, diversity stats, inter-annotator numbers, or decontamination steps against existing benchmarks. If any overlap or bias slipped in, the reported gains versus baselines could shrink. The full paper may address this, but right now the claims rest on uninspected data quality. This is for researchers who build or fine-tune video VLMs and want reproducible data with grounding annotations instead of black-box models. A reader working on robotics or video analysis would get direct value from the released datasets. I would send it to peer review. The open data and model alone justify referee time even if some numbers need tighter checks on collection methods.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper presents Molmo2, a family of open-weight vision-language models (including an 8B variant) trained on newly collected open datasets for video understanding, captioning, counting, and pixel-level grounding tasks. It introduces 7 new video datasets and 2 multi-image datasets collected without proprietary VLMs, plus a training recipe using efficient packing, message-tree encoding, bi-directional vision-token attention, and a novel token-weighting strategy. The central claim is that the 8B model outperforms other open-weight models on short-video tasks and grounding (e.g., 35.5 vs. 29.6 accuracy on video counting vs. Qwen3-VL) and surpasses some proprietary models on pointing and tracking (e.g., 38.4 vs. 20.0 F1 on video pointing vs. Gemini 3 Pro).

Significance. If the dataset quality and leakage-free status hold, the work supplies valuable open weights, data, and recipes for video VLMs with grounding capabilities, which remain rare in open-source settings. This directly addresses the gap noted in the abstract where open models either distill from closed systems or withhold data details, potentially enabling reproducible community advances on video grounding.

major comments (2)

[§4] §4 (Dataset Collection): The paper asserts that the 7 new video datasets (detailed captions, free-form QA, object tracking, video pointing) were collected without closed VLMs and are high-quality, yet supplies no collection protocol, annotation guidelines, diversity statistics, inter-annotator agreement scores, or decontamination steps against existing benchmarks. This directly undermines the headline performance deltas (e.g., 35.5 vs 29.6 on video counting), as any test-set overlap or annotation bias would make the gains artifacts rather than evidence of a superior open recipe.
[§5] §5 (Experiments and Evaluation): The reported comparisons (38.4 vs 20.0 F1 on video pointing; 56.2 vs 41.1 J&F on video tracking) lack full disclosure of baseline re-implementations, exact evaluation prompts, metric definitions, or code for the packing/message-tree scheme. Without these, it is impossible to confirm that the gains over Qwen3-VL and Gemini 3 Pro are robust rather than arising from post-hoc protocol choices or implementation differences.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract and §3.2] The abstract and §3.2 mention 'bi-directional attention on vision tokens' and 'novel token-weight strategy' without a clear statement of whether these are incremental improvements on existing mechanisms or fully new; a short ablation table would clarify their individual contributions.
[Table 1] Table 1 (model comparisons) reports numeric results but does not include standard deviations or the number of evaluation runs, which is standard for grounding metrics like J&F and F1.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments highlight important areas for improving clarity and reproducibility. We will revise the manuscript to address both major points by adding the requested details.

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Referee: [§4] §4 (Dataset Collection): The paper asserts that the 7 new video datasets (detailed captions, free-form QA, object tracking, video pointing) were collected without closed VLMs and are high-quality, yet supplies no collection protocol, annotation guidelines, diversity statistics, inter-annotator agreement scores, or decontamination steps against existing benchmarks. This directly undermines the headline performance deltas (e.g., 35.5 vs 29.6 on video counting), as any test-set overlap or annotation bias would make the gains artifacts rather than evidence of a superior open recipe.

Authors: We acknowledge that the manuscript provides insufficient detail on the data collection process. In the revised version we will expand §4 with a dedicated subsection describing the full collection protocol, annotation guidelines provided to workers, diversity statistics across video sources and query types, inter-annotator agreement metrics where applicable, and the exact decontamination procedure used to verify no overlap with existing benchmarks. We will also document the human-only annotation pipeline that avoided any closed VLMs. These additions will allow readers to evaluate the quality and leakage-free status of the datasets directly. revision: yes
Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments and Evaluation): The reported comparisons (38.4 vs 20.0 F1 on video pointing; 56.2 vs 41.1 J&F on video tracking) lack full disclosure of baseline re-implementations, exact evaluation prompts, metric definitions, or code for the packing/message-tree scheme. Without these, it is impossible to confirm that the gains over Qwen3-VL and Gemini 3 Pro are robust rather than arising from post-hoc protocol choices or implementation differences.

Authors: We agree that full reproducibility requires these details. In the revised manuscript we will augment §5 with (i) exact evaluation prompts for each task, (ii) precise metric definitions and implementation notes, (iii) descriptions of how each baseline was re-implemented (including any prompt adaptations), and (iv) a detailed explanation plus pseudocode for the packing and message-tree encoding scheme. We will also release the corresponding evaluation code upon acceptance. These changes will enable independent verification that the reported improvements are robust. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; claims rest on new empirical datasets and recipe evaluated on external benchmarks

full rationale

The paper introduces 7 new video datasets and 2 multi-image datasets collected without closed VLMs, plus a training recipe with packing/message-tree encoding, bi-directional vision attention, and token weighting. Reported gains (e.g., 35.5 vs 29.6 video-counting accuracy) are presented as direct empirical outcomes on standard benchmarks rather than any derivation, fitted parameter, or self-citation that reduces the result to its own inputs by construction. No equations, self-definitional steps, or load-bearing self-citations appear; the chain is self-contained via external evaluation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Central claims depend on standard VLM training assumptions plus new data collection procedures whose quality is asserted but not independently verified in the abstract.

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