MindWorldBench: Evaluating Mental-State-to-Behavior Reasoning in Image-to-Video Generation

arXiv:2609.39147 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Project page: https://richard2049-lee.github.io/MindWorldBench

Terminology

• Benchmark — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Theory of Mind — 9× in this paper
• Intention Accuracy — 7× in this paper
• World-State Maintenance — 6× in this paper
• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Affordance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Causal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cognitive Depth — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Evaluation Dimensions — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Theory of Mind (ToM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• MMGR: Multi-Modal Generative Reasoning Benchmark and Evaluation
• Distilling Counterfactual Reasoning from Language to Vision: Causal Graph Guided Post-Training for Video Understanding
• Step-Video-TI2V Technical Report: A State-of-the-Art Text-Driven Image-to-Video Generation Model
• A Survey on Benchmarks of Multimodal Large Language Models
• Can World Simulators Reason? Gen-ViRe: A Generative Visual Reasoning Benchmark
• Towards World Simulator: Crafting Physical Commonsense-Based Benchmark for Video Generation
• R^3-VQA: "Read the Room" by Video Social Reasoning
• Seedance 1.5 pro: A Native Audio-Visual Joint Generation Foundation Model
• Kling-Omni Technical Report
• LongCat-Video Technical Report
• Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks
• MOMENTS: A Comprehensive Multimodal Benchmark for Theory of Mind
• Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
• HunyuanVideo 1.5 Technical Report
• CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer
• UI2V-Bench: An Understanding-based Image-to-video Generation Benchmark
• Evaluating Newtonian Mechanics in Video Generative Models with Real Physical Systems
• Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models
• VBench-2.0: Advancing Video Generation Benchmark Suite for Intrinsic Faithfulness

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