PerceptionTest

A novel multimodal video benchmark designed to evaluate perception and reasoning skills of pre-trained models across video, audio, and text modalities. Contains 11.6k real-world videos (average 23 seconds) filmed by participants worldwide, densely annotated with six types of labels. Focuses on skills (Memory, Abstraction, Physics, Semantics) and reasoning types (descriptive, explanatory, predictive, counterfactual). Shows significant performance gap between human baseline (91.4%) and state-of-the-art video QA models (46.2%).

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the PerceptionTest leaderboard with a score of 0.732 across 2 evaluated AI models.

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct leads with 73.2%, followed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct at 70.5%.

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
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Common questions about PerceptionTest.

What is the PerceptionTest benchmark?

A novel multimodal video benchmark designed to evaluate perception and reasoning skills of pre-trained models across video, audio, and text modalities. Contains 11.6k real-world videos (average 23 seconds) filmed by participants worldwide, densely annotated with six types of labels. Focuses on skills (Memory, Abstraction, Physics, Semantics) and reasoning types (descriptive, explanatory, predictive, counterfactual). Shows significant performance gap between human baseline (91.4%) and state-of-the-art video QA models (46.2%).

What is the PerceptionTest leaderboard?

The PerceptionTest leaderboard ranks 2 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team leads with a score of 0.732. The average score across all models is 0.718.

What is the highest PerceptionTest score?

The highest PerceptionTest score is 0.732, achieved by Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

How many models are evaluated on PerceptionTest?

2 models have been evaluated on the PerceptionTest benchmark, with 0 verified results and 2 self-reported results.

Where can I find the PerceptionTest paper?

The PerceptionTest paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13786. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does PerceptionTest cover?

PerceptionTest is categorized under multimodal, physics, reasoning, spatial reasoning, video, and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

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