VGenST-Bench: A Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning via Active Video Synthesis

Jinho Park, Youbin Kim, Hogun Park, Eunbyung Park
5/21/2026
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Spatio-temporal reasoning is a core capability for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) operating in the real world. As such, evaluating it precisely has become an essential challenge. However, existing spatio-temporal reasoning benchmark datasets primarily rely on static image sets or passively curated video data, which limits the evaluation of fine-grained reasoning capabilities. In this paper, we introduce VGenST-Bench, a video benchmark that employs generative models to actively synthesize highly controlled and diverse evaluation scenarios. To construct VGenST-Bench, we propose a multi-agent pipeline incorporating a human quality control stage, ensuring the quality of all generated videos and QA pairs. We establish a comprehensive 3x2x2 video taxonomy, encompassing Spatial Scale, Perspective, and Scene Dynamics to span diverse scenarios. Furthermore, we design a hierarchical task suite that decouples low-level visual perception from high-level spatio-temporal reasoning. By shifting the paradigm from passive curation to active synthesis, VGenST-Bench enables fine-grained diagnosis of spatio-temporal understanding in MLLMs.

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@article{park2026vgenstbench,
  title  = {VGenST-Bench: A Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning via Active Video Synthesis},
  author = {Jinho Park and Youbin Kim and Hogun Park and Eunbyung Park},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.22570},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22570v1}
}

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