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This paper argues that current multimodal LLMs, despite strong object recognition, systematically lack 'visual knowledge'—the intuitive grasp of physical and social principles—and quantifies the deficit with a new video benchmark, VKnowU.
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load-bearing objection Useful benchmark and a plausible training recipe, but the headline human-gap is not apples-to-apples and the main VKnowU gain is in-sample on lambda. the 3 major comments →
VKnowU: Evaluating Visual Knowledge Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
The pith
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
Core claim
On VKnowU, the paper finds that visual knowledge is a distinct, measurable capability in which current MLLMs are deficient: the best model scores 74.6% overall against 89.6% for humans, with the widest gaps in Intuitive Physics (59.0% vs 97.5%, a 38.5-point deficit) and Spatial Awareness (62.7% vs 95.4%, a 32.7-point deficit). Human-centric tasks are closer (best 81.9% vs 86.8%), which the authors attribute to abundant social supervision in pretraining. The paper further claims visual knowledge is learnable: VideoKnow+, trained on VKnowQA with a See-Think-Answer output format and a GRPO reward that verifies whether the model's visual description alone determines the answer, improves 3.7% on
What carries the argument
The central object is VKnowU, a video multiple-choice benchmark built to isolate visual knowledge from audio and language shortcuts. Its QA pipeline has four steps: transcribe audio with Whisper and drop questions answerable from subtitles; run three text-only LLMs in a blind-VQA setting and remove questions answered correctly by at least two; use DeepSeek-R1 to rewrite wrong options into plausible distractors; then manually verify and shuffle options. The companion mechanism is VideoKnow+, whose See-Think-Answer format forces a self-contained visual description before reasoning, and whose binary visual knowledge reward uses a frozen MLLM verifier to check that the answer follows from the de
Load-bearing premise
The claimed 15% human-performance gap rests on using human accuracy from the original annotation sources as the reference for final multiple-choice items whose wrong answers were rewritten by DeepSeek-R1 and whose options were reshuffled; if humans perform differently on those rewritten items, the headline gap is not apples-to-apples.
What would settle it
Give the released VKnowU items to a fresh human panel under the same multiple-choice format and compute accuracy per task; if aggregate human accuracy no longer hovers near 89.6%, particularly if intuitive physics or spatial awareness scores drop, the central gap claim fails. A second check: if a text-only LLM, after the distractor rewriting, answers above the blind-VQA threshold on many items, the language-bias filtering is incomplete.
If this is right
- Current MLLMs' object recognition does not entail understanding of physical laws: state-of-the-art models are near random on intuitive physics and spatial relations.
- Model rankings on VKnowU cluster into independent world-centric and human-centric competencies; improving one does not automatically improve the other.
- Visual knowledge is trainable: a relatively small RL stage on 30K questions yields consistent gains on VKnowU and transfers to several standard video benchmarks.
- Long chain-of-thought can hurt: on straightforward visual-knowledge questions, reasoning-heavy models sometimes underperform due to repetition and ungrounded speculation.
- Evaluation protocol matters: after filtering, text-only LLM blind accuracy drops to near chance on the QA pool, suggesting the remaining questions require visual evidence.
Where Pith is reading between the lines
- Editorial inference: the reported 15-point human gap should be re-verified on the final rewritten items; humans were scored on original annotations, not on the DeepSeek-R1-distractor versions, so some of the gap may be an artifact of the rewriting rather than a pure model deficit.
- Editorial inference: the polarization between proprietary and open-source models—physics-heavy strengths versus social-heavy strengths—suggests that visual-knowledge benchmarks could be used as reward data to rebalance pretraining curricula.
- Editorial inference: the scarcity of world-centric supervision in standard image-text pretraining points to synthetic simulation and world models as a testable source of data for intuitive physics and spatial awareness.
- Editorial inference: if future models are trained to maximize VKnowU with task-specific weights, the largest headroom is in world-centric tasks, so aggregated scores across the eight categories may hide uneven gains.
Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. The paper introduces VKnowU, a video multiple-choice benchmark of 1,680 questions across 1,249 videos, designed to evaluate eight types of visual knowledge grouped into world-centric (Intuitive Physics, Object Affordance, Object Material, Spatial Awareness) and human-centric (Event Anticipation, Mental State, Social Relation, Subjective Intention) categories. The benchmark is constructed by filtering six existing datasets through audio-reliance minimization, blind-LLM language-bias filtering, DeepSeek-R1 distractor rewriting, and human review. The authors evaluate 23 MLLMs, reporting a 15.0% overall gap relative to 'Human Performance' inherited from source annotations, with larger gaps on world-centric tasks. They also present VKnowQA (30K and 12K training sets) and a baseline model, VideoKnow+, built on Qwen2.5-VL-7B with an SFT cold start and GRPO with a visual-knowledge reward, reporting +3.7% on VKnowU and gains on MVBench, Video-MME, MMVU, and VSI-Bench.
Significance. If the benchmark and training claims hold, VKnowU would be a useful diagnostic for a relatively underexplored capability, and the See-Think-Answer + visual-knowledge-reward recipe would be a constructive baseline for future work. The paper's strengths include a thoughtful multi-stage filtering pipeline, a broad evaluation of current MLLMs, the inclusion of both open and proprietary models, and the public release of code and data. However, the headline claims rest on three load-bearing methodological decisions that currently compromise the conclusions: the human baseline is not measured on the final rewritten items, the main reward weight is tuned on the evaluation benchmark itself, and the training data overlap with the evaluation benchmark at the source-family level. These issues are fixable, but they must be addressed before the quantitative claims can be accepted.
major comments (3)
- [§3.3 (Steps III–IV), Table 1, §3.4] The human performance row in Table 1 is footnoted as 'sourced from original annotation or researchers' responses.' Because Step III rewrites distractors with DeepSeek-R1 to make them more plausible and Step IV shuffles options, the human scores were obtained on different, likely easier, items than the final VKnowU questions. The 15.0% overall gap and the per-task deficits (IP −38.5%, SA −32.7%) are therefore not apples-to-apples comparisons. No human-rater protocol, sample size, or inter-annotator agreement is reported. The authors should either re-measure human accuracy on the final VKnowU items or explicitly restrict the human-comparison claim to the original annotation conditions.
- [Table 4 vs. Table 2, Eq. (1)] The visual-knowledge reward weight λ is selected by training on VKnowU itself: Table 4 sweeps λ using 1K RL steps on VKnowU, the best value (0.1) is then used for the final VideoKnow+, and Table 2 reports the resulting +3.7% improvement on the same benchmark. This makes the headline gain in-sample with respect to hyperparameter selection. The authors should hold out a validation split of VKnowU (or a disjoint development set) for λ selection and report results on a separate test split, or otherwise justify a fixed λ chosen without reference to VKnowU performance.
- [§4.1, Table 9 vs. Table 6; §5.1] VKnowQA-30K is drawn from dataset families that overlap with VKnowU's sources: VKnowU uses IntPhys2, VSI-Bench, Social-IQ-2.0, PACS, VLEP, and RexTime, while VKnowQA-30K includes Intphys, VSI-100K, and Social-IQ, among others. Deduplication prevents exact item overlap but does not prevent the model from learning family-specific regularities that transfer to VKnowU. The claimed +3.7% improvement on VKnowU may therefore partly reflect training on the same distributions rather than general visual-knowledge learning. The authors should demonstrate transfer to evaluation tasks whose source families are entirely absent from VKnowQA, or ablate VKnowQA sources to show the gain survives when family-overlapping sources are removed.
minor comments (4)
- [Abstract vs. §3.4] The abstract says '28 SOTA MLLMs,' while Section 3.4 and Table 1 evaluate 23 models. Please reconcile.
- [§3.3 Step IV] The human verification step is described only as 'comprehensive human review.' Provide details: number of annotators, instructions, whether disagreements were adjudicated, and agreement statistics.
- [Tables 1, 2, 3] Some table cells are malformed in the text (e.g., 'LLaV A-OV-7B' spacing, Table 3 rows lacking labels). Please check the compiled tables for typographical errors.
- [§5.2] The ablation in Table 3 is informative, but the text states that GRPO alone repeats descriptions in SA; consider showing a quantitative measure (e.g., output length or repetition rate) to support this claim.
Circularity Check
VideoKnow+'s +3.7% VKnowU gain is selected on VKnowU itself; the human-gap baseline is carried over from pre-rewrite annotations, though the core benchmark construction is otherwise independent.
specific steps
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fitted input called prediction
[Section 5.2, Table 4; Table 5; Table 2; Eq. (1)]
"Choice of Visual Knowledge Reward Ratio λ. We study the impact of varying λ, which controls the weight of the visual knowledge reward rv, by training 1K RL steps for rapid exploration. As shown in Table 4, VideoKnow+’s performance on VKnowU is sensitive to this parameter. The best performance 66.79 is achieved at λ=0.1..."
λ is tuned by VKnowU accuracy, and the verifier model in Table 5 is also chosen by VKnowU accuracy; Table 2 then reports VideoKnow+’s VKnowU score (67.7, +3.7%) for that tuned configuration. The benchmark is thus used both to select the configuration and to claim the improvement, so the reported gain is not a held-out result; it is the same quantity that was optimized, not an independent prediction.
full rationale
The load-bearing VKnowU benchmark construction is not circular: the QA pipeline (Whisper audio filtering, blind-LLM language-bias filtering, DeepSeek-R1 distractor rewriting, human review) is a curation procedure, and the 23-model evaluation is an external measurement against curated items. Appendix A's Bayes decomposition is standard conditioning and is not used to derive any fitted number. The circular element is confined to the VideoKnow+ validation: λ in Eq. (1) and the verifier model are selected by accuracy on VKnowU itself (Tables 4 and 5), and the same VKnowU set is then used to report the final '+3.7%' gain (Table 2). That makes the gain an in-sample, selection-optimized figure, not an independent estimate of VKnowU performance. Separately, I flag a missing-measurement limitation in Table 1: the human-performance row is 'sourced from original annotation or researchers' responses', but Step III rewrote distractors and Step IV shuffled options before evaluation, so the 15.0% human gap is not re-measured on the final items; this is a validity risk for the headline comparison, not a construction-level circularity. No load-bearing self-citation chain appears; the authors' prior video-model citations are contextual.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
free parameters (4)
- lambda (visual knowledge reward weight) =
0.1
- audio-similarity threshold =
0.3
- blind-VQA answerability threshold =
>5 of 10 correct, flagged by at least 2 of 3 LLMs
- training frame count and resolution =
16 frames at 128x28x28 for training; 32 frames at 256x28x28 for evaluation
axioms (5)
- domain assumption Visual knowledge is a coherent, separable construct with eight categories.
- domain assumption Human labels from original source datasets remain valid after DeepSeek-R1 rewrites options and shuffles order.
- domain assumption If blind text-only LLMs cannot answer a question, it is not language-answerable.
- domain assumption The frozen MLLM verifier's judgment that a description is sufficient to derive the answer is a valid reward signal.
- standard math Bayes decomposition P(T_a | V, T_q) proportional to P(V | T_a, T_q) * P(T_a | T_q).
read the original abstract
While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have become adept at recognizing objects, they often lack the intuitive, human-like understanding of the world's underlying physical and social principles. This high-level vision-grounded semantics, which we term visual knowledge, forms a bridge between perception and reasoning, yet remains an underexplored area in current MLLMs. To systematically evaluate this capability, we present VKnowU, a comprehensive benchmark featuring 1,680 questions in 1,249 videos, covering 8 core types of visual knowledge spanning both world-centric (e.g., intuitive physics) and human-centric (e.g., subjective intentions). Evaluation of 28 SOTA MLLMs reveals that leading models still fall short of human performance, with particularly notable gaps in the world-centric. To bridge this gap, we introduce a new dataset, VKnowQA, and VideoKnow+, a baseline model that explicitly incorporates visual knowledge into MLLMs. VideoKnow+ follows a structured See-Think-Answer paradigm and adopts reinforcement learning with visual knowledge reward, achieving a +3.7% improvement on VKnowU and consistent gains on MVBench (+5.4%), Video-MME (+7.0%), and MMVU (+5.7%). Our work highlights visual knowledge as a missing cornerstone for developing more generalizable MLLMs that can not only see but also truly understand our worlds.
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