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| license: mit |
| task_categories: |
| - video-text-to-text |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - benchmark |
| - video |
| - multimodal |
| - MCQ |
| pretty_name: Video-MME-v2 |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
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| <p align="center"> |
| <img src="assets/logo.png" width="100%" height="100%" alt="Video-MME-v2 logo"> |
| </p> |
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| <div align="center"> |
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| [](https://video-mme-v2.netlify.app) |
| [](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05015) |
| [](https://github.com/MME-Benchmarks/Video-MME-v2) |
| [](https://video-mme-v2.netlify.app/#leaderboard) |
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| </div> |
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| <!-- <p align="center"> |
| <a href="https://video-mme-v2.netlify.app/">🍎 Project Page</a> | |
| <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05015">📖 Paper</a> | |
| <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/MME-Benchmarks/Video-MME-v2">🤗 Dataset</a> | |
| <a href="https://video-mme-v2.netlify.app/#leaderboard">🏆 Leaderboard</a> |
| </p> --> |
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| # 🤗 About This Repo |
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| This repository contains annotation data for "[Video-MME-v2: Towards the Next Stage in Benchmarks for Comprehensive Video Understanding](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05015)". It mainly consists of three parts: `videos/`, `test.parquet`, and `subtitle.zip`. |
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| - `videos/` contains **800 1080p MP4 files**, organized sequentially into 40 zip archives. For example, `001.mp4` to `020.mp4` are stored in `001.zip`. |
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| - `test.parquet` contains **3200 QA instances**, with each video paired with **4 questions**. Each instance includes the **question**, **options**, **answer**, and auxiliary metadata such as the **video id** and **task type**. |
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| - `subtitle.zip` contains **800 JSONL files**, each corresponding to a unique **video id**, with word-level entries and timestamps. |
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| # 🩷 About This Benchmark |
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| In 2024, our [**Video-MME**](https://video-mme.github.io/) benchmark became a standard evaluation set for frontier models like Gemini and GPT. However, as model capabilities rapidly evolve, scores on existing benchmarks are saturating, yet a clear gap remains between **leaderboard performance and actual user experience**. This indicates that current evaluation paradigms fail to capture true video understanding abilities. To address this, we spent a year redesigning the evaluation system from first principles and now introduce **Video-MME v2**—a progressive and robust benchmark designed to drive the next generation of video understanding models. |
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| <p align="center"> |
| <img src="assets/teaser.png" width="100%" height="100%" alt="Teaser"> |
| </p> |
| |
| - **Dataset Size** |
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| The dataset consists of 800 videos and 3,200 QA pairs, with each video associated with four MCQ-based questions. |
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| - **Multi-level Evaluation Hierarchy** |
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| - 🔍 **Level 1:** Retrieval & Aggregation |
| - ⏱️ **Level 2:** Level 1 + Temporal Understanding |
| - 🧠 **Level 3:** Level 2 + Complex Reasoning. |
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| - **Group-based Evaluation Strategy** |
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| - **Capability consistency groups** examine the breadth of a specific fundamental perception skill. |
| - **Reasoning coherence groups** assess the depth of a model’s reasoning ability. |
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| - **Video Sources** |
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| All videos are collected from YouTube. Over 80% were published in 2025 or later, with nearly 40% published after October 2025. |
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| - **Video Categories** |
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| The dataset includes four top-level domains, further divided into 31 fine-grained subcategories. |
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| - **Metrics** |
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| A non-linear scoring mechanism is applied to all question groups, and a first error truncation mechanism is used for reasoning coherence groups. |
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| # 🍺 About a Concrete Case |
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| > **💡 Why this example matters?** |
| > This video QA group demonstrates our **Reasoning Coherence** evaluation strategy and **Multi-level Hierarchy**. To answer the final state correctly, a model must successfully track the object backwards through temporal swaps. If a model guesses the initial state correctly but fails the intermediate swaps, our **first error truncation mechanism** will accurately penalize it for flawed reasoning. |
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| <p align="left"> |
| <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/MME-Benchmarks/Video-MME-v2/resolve/main/assets/demo.mp4"> |
| <img src="assets/demo_cover.png" width="45%" alt="Demo video cover"/> |
| </a> |
| </p> |
| |
| <p align="left"> |
| <strong>👆 Click the cover image to view the demo video.</strong> |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| <strong>Q1:</strong> Did the ball exist underneath any of the shells?<br> |
| A. No.<br> |
| B. Yes. ✅<br> |
| C. Cannot be determined. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| <strong>Q2:</strong> Underneath which shell was the ball located at the end?<br> |
| A. There is no ball under any shell.<br> |
| B. The third shell.<br> |
| C. The sixth shell.<br> |
| D. The second shell.<br> |
| E. The seventh shell.<br> |
| F. The fifth shell.<br> |
| G. The fourth shell. ✅<br> |
| H. The first shell. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| <strong>Q3:</strong> The host performed a total of two shell swaps (defining a single swap as an instance where all shells return to an approximately straight line). Underneath which shell was the ball located after the first swap?<br> |
| A. There is no ball under any shell.<br> |
| B. The seventh shell.<br> |
| C. The fourth shell. ✅<br> |
| D. The fifth shell.<br> |
| E. The sixth shell.<br> |
| F. The second shell.<br> |
| G. The third shell.<br> |
| H. The first shell. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| <strong>Q4:</strong> The host performed a total of two shell swaps (defining a single swap as an instance where all shells return to an approximately straight line). Underneath which shell was the ball located initially?<br> |
| A. The seventh shell.<br> |
| B. The fourth shell.<br> |
| C. The fifth shell.<br> |
| D. The third shell. ✅<br> |
| E. The second shell.<br> |
| F. There is no ball under any shell.<br> |
| G. The first shell.<br> |
| H. The sixth shell. |
| </p> |
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