VideoMathQA: Benchmarking Mathematical Reasoning via Multimodal Understanding in Videos

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Hauptverfasser: Rasheed, Hanoona, Shaker, Abdelrahman, Tang, Anqi, Maaz, Muhammad, Yang, Ming-Hsuan, Khan, Salman, Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
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author Rasheed, Hanoona
Shaker, Abdelrahman
Tang, Anqi
Maaz, Muhammad
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
Khan, Salman
Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
author_facet Rasheed, Hanoona
Shaker, Abdelrahman
Tang, Anqi
Maaz, Muhammad
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
Khan, Salman
Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
contents Mathematical reasoning in real-world video settings presents a fundamentally different challenge than in static images or text. It requires interpreting fine-grained visual information, accurately reading handwritten or digital text, and integrating spoken cues, often dispersed non-linearly over time. In such multimodal contexts, success hinges not just on perception, but on selectively identifying and integrating the right contextual details from a rich and noisy stream of content. To this end, we introduce VideoMathQA, a benchmark designed to evaluate whether models can perform such temporally extended cross-modal reasoning on videos. The benchmark spans 10 diverse mathematical domains, covering videos ranging from 10 seconds to over 1 hour. It requires models to interpret structured visual content, understand instructional narratives, and jointly ground concepts across visual, audio, and textual modalities. We employ graduate-level experts to ensure high quality, totaling over $920$ man-hours of annotation. To reflect real-world scenarios, questions are designed around three core reasoning challenges: direct problem solving, where answers are grounded in the presented question; conceptual transfer, which requires applying learned methods to new problems; and deep instructional comprehension, involving multi-step reasoning over extended explanations and partially worked-out solutions. Each question includes multi-step reasoning annotations, enabling fine-grained diagnosis of model capabilities. Through this benchmark, we highlight the limitations of existing approaches and establish a systematic evaluation framework for models that must reason, rather than merely perceive, across temporally extended and modality-rich mathematical problem settings. Our benchmark and evaluation code are available at: https://mbzuai-oryx.github.io/VideoMathQA
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spellingShingle VideoMathQA: Benchmarking Mathematical Reasoning via Multimodal Understanding in Videos
Rasheed, Hanoona
Shaker, Abdelrahman
Tang, Anqi
Maaz, Muhammad
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
Khan, Salman
Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Mathematical reasoning in real-world video settings presents a fundamentally different challenge than in static images or text. It requires interpreting fine-grained visual information, accurately reading handwritten or digital text, and integrating spoken cues, often dispersed non-linearly over time. In such multimodal contexts, success hinges not just on perception, but on selectively identifying and integrating the right contextual details from a rich and noisy stream of content. To this end, we introduce VideoMathQA, a benchmark designed to evaluate whether models can perform such temporally extended cross-modal reasoning on videos. The benchmark spans 10 diverse mathematical domains, covering videos ranging from 10 seconds to over 1 hour. It requires models to interpret structured visual content, understand instructional narratives, and jointly ground concepts across visual, audio, and textual modalities. We employ graduate-level experts to ensure high quality, totaling over $920$ man-hours of annotation. To reflect real-world scenarios, questions are designed around three core reasoning challenges: direct problem solving, where answers are grounded in the presented question; conceptual transfer, which requires applying learned methods to new problems; and deep instructional comprehension, involving multi-step reasoning over extended explanations and partially worked-out solutions. Each question includes multi-step reasoning annotations, enabling fine-grained diagnosis of model capabilities. Through this benchmark, we highlight the limitations of existing approaches and establish a systematic evaluation framework for models that must reason, rather than merely perceive, across temporally extended and modality-rich mathematical problem settings. Our benchmark and evaluation code are available at: https://mbzuai-oryx.github.io/VideoMathQA
title VideoMathQA: Benchmarking Mathematical Reasoning via Multimodal Understanding in Videos
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05349