Timeline-Bench: Evaluating Agents on Realistic Video-Editing Tasks, from Raw Footage to Final Cut

arXiv:2609.35143 · cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.MM · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.MM

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect

Project page: https://timelinebench.tensortest.com

Terminology

Benchmark — 31× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verification — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verifier — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
AI Agents — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Benchmarking — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Generative AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 2× in this paper
Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
LLM judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Temporal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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