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New TempCloze benchmark tests Video-LLMs' temporal reasoning

Researchers have introduced TempCloze, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the temporal reasoning capabilities of Video-LLMs. This benchmark aims to mitigate linguistic shortcuts by presenting models with the beginning and end of a video and requiring them to identify the correct missing middle segment from four options. Initial evaluations on a variety of proprietary and open-source Video-LLMs indicate that temporal alignment is a significant challenge for current models. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could drive improvements in the temporal reasoning abilities of Video-LLMs, crucial for applications requiring understanding of sequential events.

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New TempCloze benchmark tests Video-LLMs' temporal reasoning

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Wenqi Pei, Henry Hengyuan Zhao, Yilai Liu, Jiahao Meng, Han Chen, Ziyu Wang, Hongyang Du ·

    TempCloze: Can Video-LLMs Identify the Missing Middle?

    arXiv:2609.01515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Temporal reasoning benchmarks for Video-LLMs are often mediated by language, leaving room for linguistic shortcuts from option wording, answer correlations, or language priors. To reduce such shortcuts, we introduce TempCloze, a v…