📄 MLVU: Benchmarking Multi-task Long Video Understanding

Paper · 2024 · Junjie Zhou, Yan Shu, Bo Zhao et al.

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🎓Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai · China212 works · 19,544 citations🎓Zhejiang UniversityHangzhou · China224 works · 13,587 citations🎓Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsBeijing · China78 works · 33,365 citations🔬Beijing Academy of Artificial IntelligenceBeijing · China46 works · 8,682 citations🔬State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching TechnologyBeijing · China9 works · 273 citations

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Cite as Junjie Zhou, Yan Shu, Bo Zhao, Boya Wu, Zhengyang Liang, Shitao Xiao, Minghao Qin, Xi Yang, Yongping Xiong, Bo Zhang, Tiejun Huang and Zheng Liu. 2024. MLVU: Benchmarking Multi-task Long Video Understanding. arXiv:2406.04264.

The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2406.04264 · arXiv 2406.04264

@misc{zhou2024mlvu,
  title = {{MLVU: Benchmarking Multi-task Long Video Understanding}},
  author = {Junjie Zhou, Yan Shu, Bo Zhao, Boya Wu, Zhengyang Liang, Shitao Xiao, Minghao Qin, Xi Yang, Yongping Xiong, Bo Zhang, Tiejun Huang and Zheng Liu},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2406.04264},
  eprint = {2406.04264},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2406.04264}
}

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