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ProactiveBench: Can Streaming Video Models Really Interact Like Humans?

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arXiv:2609.12658 (cs)
[Submitted on 11 Sep 2026]

Title:ProactiveBench: Can Streaming Video Models Really Interact Like Humans?

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Abstract:Streaming video understanding requires models to process continuous multimodal input while maintaining temporal context. Existing evaluations are predominantly reactive: they query a model at a selected timestamp and therefore do not assess when it should respond. Proactive interaction instead requires monitoring a standing request, responding within an appropriate interval after the target event, and otherwise remaining silent. We introduce ProactiveBench, which evaluates models at one-second stream intervals without an explicit response cue. Its six subtasks vary trigger ambiguity and timing tolerance. Event Sensitivity geometrically combines response and silence rates on the same recording; four window-based subtasks distinguish early, in-window, and missed responses; and Duplicate Counting penalizes omissions and repetitions. Premature responses outnumber missed responses for four of the six evaluated systems, revealing a substantial gap in the temporal decision-making required for human-like interaction.
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Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.12658 [cs.LG]
  (or arXiv:2609.12658v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.12658
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From: Kaixuan Du [view email]
[v1] Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:05:42 UTC (324 KB)
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