MLVU

A comprehensive benchmark for multi-task long video understanding that evaluates multimodal large language models on videos ranging from 3 minutes to 2 hours across 9 distinct tasks including reasoning, captioning, recognition, and summarization.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the MLVU leaderboard with a score of 0.873 across 9 evaluated AI models.

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.5-122B-A10B leads with 87.3%, followed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.6 Plus at 86.7% and Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.6-27B at 86.6%.

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Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on MLVU

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MLVU Leaderboard

9 models
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1
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
122B262K$0.40 / $3.20
2
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
1.0M$0.50 / $3.00
3
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
28B262K$0.60 / $3.60
4
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
35B
5
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
27B262K$0.30 / $2.40
6
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
35B262K$0.25 / $2.00
7
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.30 / $1.49
8
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.45 / $3.49
9
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
8B
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FAQ

Common questions about MLVU.

What is the MLVU benchmark?

A comprehensive benchmark for multi-task long video understanding that evaluates multimodal large language models on videos ranging from 3 minutes to 2 hours across 9 distinct tasks including reasoning, captioning, recognition, and summarization.

What is the MLVU leaderboard?

The MLVU leaderboard ranks 9 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team leads with a score of 0.873. The average score across all models is 0.841.

What is the highest MLVU score?

The highest MLVU score is 0.873, achieved by Qwen3.5-122B-A10B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

How many models are evaluated on MLVU?

9 models have been evaluated on the MLVU benchmark, with 0 verified results and 9 self-reported results.

Where can I find the MLVU paper?

The MLVU paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04264. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does MLVU cover?

MLVU is categorized under long context, multimodal, video, and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

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