--- license: mit task_categories: - video-text-to-text language: - en tags: - benchmark - video - multimodal - MCQ pretty_name: Video-MME-v2 size_categories: - 1K

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--- # 🤗 About This Repo 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`. - `videos/` contains **800 1080p MP4 files**, organized sequentially into 40 zip archives. For example, `001.mp4` to `020.mp4` are stored in `001.zip`. - `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**. - `subtitle.zip` contains **800 JSONL files**, each corresponding to a unique **video id**, with word-level entries and timestamps. --- # 🩷 About This Benchmark 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.

Teaser

- **Dataset Size** The dataset consists of 800 videos and 3,200 QA pairs, with each video associated with four MCQ-based questions. - **Multi-level Evaluation Hierarchy** - 🔍 **Level 1:** Retrieval & Aggregation - ⏱️ **Level 2:** Level 1 + Temporal Understanding - 🧠 **Level 3:** Level 2 + Complex Reasoning. - **Group-based Evaluation Strategy** - **Capability consistency groups** examine the breadth of a specific fundamental perception skill. - **Reasoning coherence groups** assess the depth of a model’s reasoning ability. - **Video Sources** All videos are collected from YouTube. Over 80% were published in 2025 or later, with nearly 40% published after October 2025. - **Video Categories** The dataset includes four top-level domains, further divided into 31 fine-grained subcategories. - **Metrics** A non-linear scoring mechanism is applied to all question groups, and a first error truncation mechanism is used for reasoning coherence groups. --- # 🍺 About a Concrete Case > **💡 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.

👆 Click the cover image to view the demo video.

Q1: Did the ball exist underneath any of the shells?
A. No.
B. Yes. ✅
C. Cannot be determined.

Q2: Underneath which shell was the ball located at the end?
A. There is no ball under any shell.
B. The third shell.
C. The sixth shell.
D. The second shell.
E. The seventh shell.
F. The fifth shell.
G. The fourth shell. ✅
H. The first shell.

Q3: 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?
A. There is no ball under any shell.
B. The seventh shell.
C. The fourth shell. ✅
D. The fifth shell.
E. The sixth shell.
F. The second shell.
G. The third shell.
H. The first shell.

Q4: 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?
A. The seventh shell.
B. The fourth shell.
C. The fifth shell.
D. The third shell. ✅
E. The second shell.
F. There is no ball under any shell.
G. The first shell.
H. The sixth shell.