CharadesSTA

Charades-STA is a benchmark dataset for temporal activity localization via language queries, extending the Charades dataset with sentence temporal annotations. It contains 12,408 training and 3,720 testing segment-sentence pairs from videos with natural language descriptions and precise temporal boundaries for localizing activities based on language queries.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the CharadesSTA leaderboard with a score of 0.648 across 12 evaluated AI models.

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct leads with 64.8%, followed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking at 63.5% and Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct at 63.5%.

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CharadesSTA Leaderboard

12 models
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1
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.30 / $1.49
2
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.45 / $3.49
2
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B262K$0.20 / $0.70
4
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
5
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B262K$0.20 / $1.00
6
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
7
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.18 / $2.09
8
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $1.00
9
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.08 / $0.50
10
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $0.60
11
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
34B
12
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
8B
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FAQ

Common questions about CharadesSTA.

What is the CharadesSTA benchmark?

Charades-STA is a benchmark dataset for temporal activity localization via language queries, extending the Charades dataset with sentence temporal annotations. It contains 12,408 training and 3,720 testing segment-sentence pairs from videos with natural language descriptions and precise temporal boundaries for localizing activities based on language queries.

What is the CharadesSTA leaderboard?

The CharadesSTA leaderboard ranks 12 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team leads with a score of 0.648. The average score across all models is 0.589.

What is the highest CharadesSTA score?

The highest CharadesSTA score is 0.648, achieved by Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

How many models are evaluated on CharadesSTA?

12 models have been evaluated on the CharadesSTA benchmark, with 0 verified results and 12 self-reported results.

Where can I find the CharadesSTA paper?

The CharadesSTA paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02101. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does CharadesSTA cover?

CharadesSTA is categorized under language, multimodal, video, and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

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