README.md

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task_categories:
- multiple-choice
- visual-question-answering
language:
- en
tags:
- video understanding
- long-context
- multimodal
pretty_name: longvideobench
---


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# Dataset Card for LongVideoBench

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Large multimodal models (LMMs) are handling increasingly longer and more complex inputs. However, few public benchmarks are available to assess these advancements. To address this, we introduce LongVideoBench, a question-answering benchmark with video-language interleaved inputs up to an hour long. It comprises 3,763 web-collected videos with subtitles across diverse themes, designed to evaluate LMMs on long-term multimodal understanding.

The main challenge that LongVideoBench targets is to accurately retrieve and reason over detailed information from lengthy inputs. We present a novel task called referring reasoning, where questions contain a referring query that references related video contexts, requiring the model to reason over these details.

LongVideoBench includes 6,678 human-annotated multiple-choice questions across 17 categories, making it one of the most comprehensive benchmarks for long-form video understanding. Evaluations show significant challenges even for advanced proprietary models (e.g., GPT-4o, Gemini-1.5-Pro, GPT-4-Turbo), with open-source models performing worse. Performance improves only when models process more frames, establishing LongVideoBench as a valuable benchmark for future long-context LMMs.


## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

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- **Curated by:** LongVideoBench Team
- **Language(s) (NLP):** English
- **License:** CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

### Dataset Sources [optional]

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- **Repository:** [https://github.com/longvideobench/LongVideoBench](https://github.com/longvideobench/LongVideoBench)
- **Homepage:** [https://longvideobench.github.io](https://longvideobench.github.io)
- **Leaderboard:** [https://huggingface.co/spaces/longvideobench/LongVideoBench](https://huggingface.co/spaces/longvideobench/LongVideoBench)

## Uses

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1. Download the dataset via Hugging Face Client:

```shell
huggingface-cli download longvideobench/LongVideoBench --repo-type dataset --local-dir LongVideoBench --local-dir-use-symlinks False
```

2. Extract from the `.tar` files:

```shell
cat videos.tar.part.* > videos.tar
tar -xvf videos.tar
tar -xvf subtitles.tar
```

3. Use the [LongVideoBench] dataloader to load the data from raw MP4 files and subtitles:

- (a) Install the dataloader:

```shell
git clone https://github.com/LongVideoBench/LongVideoBench.git
cd LongVideoBench
pip install -e .
```
- (b) Load the dataset in python scripts:

```python
from longvideobench import LongVideoBenchDataset

# validation
dataset = LongVideoBenchDataset(YOUR_DATA_PATH, "lvb_val.json", max_num_frames=64)

# test
dataset = LongVideoBenchDataset(YOUR_DATA_PATH, "lvb_test_wo_gt.json", max_num_frames=64)

print(dataset[0]["inputs"]) # A list consisting of PIL.Image and strings.
```

The "inputs" are interleaved video frames and text subtitles, followed by questions and option prompts. You can then convert them to the format that your LMMs can accept.


### Direct Use

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This dataset is meant to evaluate LMMs on video understanding and long-context understanding abilities.

### Out-of-Scope Use

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We do not advise to use this dataset for training.

## Dataset Structure

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- `lvb_val.json`: Validation set annotations.

- `lvb_test_wo_gt.json`: Test set annotations. Correct choice is not provided.

- `videos.tar.*`: Links to Videos.

- `subtitles.tar`: Links to Subtitles.


## Dataset Card Contact

haoning001@e.ntu.edu.sg


```
@misc{wu2024longvideobenchbenchmarklongcontextinterleaved,
      title={LongVideoBench: A Benchmark for Long-context Interleaved Video-Language Understanding}, 
      author={Haoning Wu and Dongxu Li and Bei Chen and Junnan Li},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2407.15754},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15754}, 
}
```