Perception Test 2026: Challenge Summary and Extension to City-scale Audio-Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2610.12081 · cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Project page: https://perception-test-challenge.github.io

Terminology

• Benchmark — 25× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 19× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Approaches — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 1× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• European Conference on Computer Vision — 1× in this paper
• Frozen model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• TORAX: A Fast and Differentiable Tokamak Transport Simulator in JAX
• Perception Test 2024: Challenge Summary and a Novel Hour-Long VideoQA Benchmark
• MDETR -- Modulated Detection for End-to-End Multi-Modal Understanding

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