# MVPBench: A Multi-Video Perception Evaluation Benchmark for Multi-Modal Video Understanding

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22756 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.22756/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Video understanding with MLLMs, one of 16 directions in Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models.
- Builds on 31 of its 39 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Mar 2026.

## Placed in

- Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models / [Video understanding with MLLMs](https://mlsanity.com/mllm/video-understanding-with-mllms/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 31)

- [Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.09288/) (2023)
- [Visual Instruction Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.08485/) (2023)
- [Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.13923/) (2025)
- [GPT-4o System Card](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.21276/) (2024)
- [Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.06261/) (2025)
- [LLaVA-OneVision: Easy Visual Task Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.03326/) (2024)
- [Qwen-VL: A Versatile Vision-Language Model for Understanding, Localization, Text Reading, and Beyond](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.12966/) (2023)
- [MMBench: Is Your Multi-modal Model an All-around Player?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.06281/) (2023)
- [InternVL3: Exploring Advanced Training and Test-Time Recipes for Open-Source Multimodal Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.10479/) (2025)
- [A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.15594/) (2024)
- [Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark of Multi-modal LLMs in Video Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.21075/) (2024)
- [MVBench: A Comprehensive Multi-modal Video Understanding Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.17005/) (2023)
- [VideoChat: Chat-Centric Video Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.06355/) (2023)
- [Emu3: Next-Token Prediction is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.18869/) (2024)
- [EgoSchema: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Very Long-form Video Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.09126/) (2023)
- [LongVideoBench: A Benchmark for Long-context Interleaved Video-Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.15754/) (2024)
- [Towards Automatic Learning of Procedures from Web Instructional Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.09788/) (2017)
- [BLINK: Multimodal Large Language Models Can See but Not Perceive](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.12390/) (2024)
- [TGIF-QA: Toward Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Visual Question Answering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.04497/) (2017)
- [TempCompass: Do Video LLMs Really Understand Videos?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.00476/) (2024)
- [InternLM-XComposer2: Mastering Free-form Text-Image Composition and Comprehension in Vision-Language Large Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.16420/) (2024)
- [mPLUG-Owl3: Towards Long Image-Sequence Understanding in Multi-Modal Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.04840/) (2024)
- [Valley: Video Assistant with Large Language model Enhanced abilitY](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.07207/) (2023)
- [LVLM-eHub: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.09265/) (2023)
- [InternLM-XComposer-2.5: A Versatile Large Vision Language Model Supporting Long-Contextual Input and Output](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.03320/) (2024)
- [MiniCPM-V 4.5: Cooking Efficient MLLMs via Architecture, Data, and Training Recipe](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.18154/) (2025)
- [Video-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Toolkit for Evaluating Video-based Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.16103/) (2023)
- [Action Quality Assessment Across Multiple Actions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.06367/) (2018)
- [VideoVista: A Versatile Benchmark for Video Understanding and Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.11303/) (2024)
- [AutoEval-Video: An Automatic Benchmark for Assessing Large Vision Language Models in Open-Ended Video Question Answering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.14906/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [A Systematic Evaluation of Positional Bias in Multi-Video Summarization with MLLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.04596/) (2026)
- [PhyCheck: Fine-Grained Evidence-Grounded Dataset for Physical Law Understanding in Video-LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.02150/) (2026)
- [SYNCR: Diagnosing and Learning Cross-Video Reasoning from Simulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.37918/) (2026)
- [EventLens: Event-Structure Reinforcement Learning for Video Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.16172/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred growing interest in Multi-modal LLMs (MLLMs) and motivated the development of benchmarks to evaluate their perceptual and comprehension abilities. Existing benchmarks, however, are limited to static images or single videos, overlooking the complex interactions across multiple videos. To address this gap, we introduce the Multi-Video Perception Evaluation Benchmark (MVPBench), a new benchmark featuring 14 subtasks across diverse visual domains designed to evaluate models on extracting relevant information from video sequences to make informed decisions. MVPBench includes 5K question-answering tests involving 2.7K video clips sourced from existing datasets and manually annotated clips. Extensive evaluations reveal that current models struggle to process multi-video inputs effectively, underscoring substantial limitations in their multi-video comprehension. We anticipate MVPBench will drive advancements in multi-video perception.
