MineExplorer: Evaluating Open-World Exploration of MLLM Agents in Minecraft

arXiv:2605.30931 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-05-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-05-29

Updated: 2026-09-04

Code: https://github.com/Jometeorie/MineExplorer

Terminology

• Benchmark — 55× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Causal Reasoning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Multimodal Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Thinking mode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Task Success Rate — 1× in this paper
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Qwen3-VL Technical Report
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• GPT-4 Technical Report
• OpenAI GPT-5 System Card
• GameWorld: Towards Standardized and Verifiable Evaluation of Multimodal Game Agents
• Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence
• GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
• EscapeCraft: A 3D Room Escape Environment for Benchmarking Complex Multimodal Reasoning Ability
• A Survey on Game Playing Agents and Large Models: Methods, Applications, and Challenges
• A Survey on Agentic Multimodal Large Language Models
• VideoGameBench: Can Vision-Language Models complete popular video games?
• V-MAGE: A Game Evaluation Framework for Assessing Vision-Centric Capabilities in Multimodal Large Language Models

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