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Can you SPLICE it together? A Human Curated Benchmark for Probing Visual Reasoning in VLMs

Mohamad Ballout·Okajevo Wilfred·Seyedalireza Yaghoubi·Nohayr Muhammad Abdelmoneim·Julius Mayer·Elia Bruni
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In this work, we introduce SPLICE, a human-curated benchmark derived from the COIN instructional video dataset, designed to probe event-based reasoning across multiple dimensions: temporal, causal, spatial, contextual, and general knowledge. SPLICE includes 3,381 human-filtered videos spanning 12 categories and 180 sub-categories, such as sports, engineering, and housework. These videos are segmented into a total of 11,423 event clips. We evaluate both human participants and state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) on the task of rearranging these clips into coherent event sequences to assess visual reasoning capabilities. Results reveal a significant gap: VLMs struggle to match human performance. While human-annotated textual descriptions improve model accuracy, they do not affect human performance, suggesting that models rely more on language priors than on visual understanding. Even with annotations, VLMs fall short of human-level reasoning, underscoring persistent challenges in visual reasoning. A deeper analysis across sub-categories shows that VLMs perform relatively better on videos where temporal and causal reasoning are dominant, compared to those where contextual and spatial reasoning are dominant. They also perform better on everyday tasks than on specialized ones.

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Mohamad Ballout, Okajevo Wilfred, Seyedalireza Yaghoubi, Nohayr Muhammad Abdelmoneim, Julius Mayer, Elia Bruni. 2025-09-29. Can you SPLICE it together? A Human Curated Benchmark for Probing Visual Reasoning in VLMs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24640

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