CineSubBench: Evaluating LLMs on Long-Form Narrative and Cultural Understanding from Multilingual Movie Subtitles

arXiv:2609.36218 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.ET, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.ET, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Project page: https://tafseer-nayeem.github.io/CineSubBench

Terminology

• Benchmark — 57× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 20× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 19× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 19× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Verification — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 14× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 14× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• United States — 14× in this paper
• Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Commentary — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 1× in this paper
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Movie Facts and Fibs (MF$^2$): A Benchmark for Long Movie Understanding

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