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New benchmark reveals MLLMs struggle with streaming spatial intelligence

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Researchers have introduced OVO-S-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the spatial intelligence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in streaming environments. This benchmark features 1,680 questions across 348 videos, with a focus on continuous egocentric streams relevant to robotics and autonomous driving. Initial evaluations show that Gemini-3.1-Pro lags significantly behind human experts, particularly in allocentric mapping tasks, and surprisingly, specialized streaming MLLMs underperform their base models. AI

IMPACT Establishes a new, demanding testbed for streaming spatial MLLMs, highlighting current limitations and guiding future development.

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New benchmark reveals MLLMs struggle with streaming spatial intelligence

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    OVO-S-Bench: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Streaming Spatial Intelligence in Multimodal LLMs

    OVO-S-Bench presents a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating streaming spatial intelligence in multimodal language models through human-annotated questions spanning multiple abstraction levels.

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yifei Li, Pengyiang Liu, Yuhang Zang, Zhongyue Shi, Qi Fu, Hongye Hao, Jiwen Lu ·

    OVO-S-Bench: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Streaming Spatial Intelligence in Multimodal LLMs

    arXiv:2606.03890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal agents in robotics, AR, and autonomous driving must reason about places and layouts from continuous egocentric streams, often using evidence outside the current view. Existing benchmarks either evaluate offline over full …

  3. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiwen Lu ·

    OVO-S-Bench: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Streaming Spatial Intelligence in Multimodal LLMs

    Multimodal agents in robotics, AR, and autonomous driving must reason about places and layouts from continuous egocentric streams, often using evidence outside the current view. Existing benchmarks either evaluate offline over full videos or target events rather than spatial stru…

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