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New PushupBench benchmark reveals VLMs struggle with counting repetitions

Researchers have introduced PushupBench, a new dataset designed to evaluate the ability of vision-language models (VLMs) to accurately count repetitions in videos. The benchmark highlights that even top-tier VLMs struggle with this task, achieving only 42.1% exact accuracy on counting pushups. Furthermore, the study reveals that some models may exploit statistical biases rather than performing genuine temporal reasoning. Interestingly, fine-tuning models on this counting task improved their performance on broader video understanding benchmarks. AI

IMPACT Highlights a key limitation in current VLMs for temporal reasoning and counting, potentially guiding future model development.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper introducing a new benchmark for evaluating vision-language models.

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New PushupBench benchmark reveals VLMs struggle with counting repetitions

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Shengzhi Li, Jiarun Chen, Karun Sharma, Jiaqi Su, Shichao Pei ·

    PushupBench: Your VLM is not good at counting pushups

    arXiv:2604.23407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models (VLMs) can recognize \textit{what} happens in video but fail to count \textit{how many} times. We introduce \textbf{PushupBench}, 446 long-form clips (avg. 36.7s) for evaluating repetition counting. The …