TVQA
Models answer 152,545 multiple-choice questions about clips from 6 TV shows, using video frames and subtitles. Scoring is accuracy.
- Made by
- UNC Chapel Hill
- Released
- September 2018
- Kind
- Video understanding
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Checked automatically
- Answers
- Multiple choice
- Tasks
- All public
- Strongest model tested
- GPT-4 Mar 2023 #180 on the capability index
- Last in a launch post
- March 2023, dropped after it saturated
- Last model added
- March 2023
In the authors’ words
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in image-based question-answering (QA) tasks. However, due to data limitations, there has been much less work on video-based QA. In this paper, we present TVQA, a large-scale video QA dataset based on 6 popular TV shows. TVQA consists of 152,545 QA pairs from 21,793 clips, spanning over 460 hours of video. Questions are designed to be compositional in nature, requiring systems to jointly localize relevant moments within a clip, comprehend subtitle-based dialogue, and recognize relevant visual concepts. We provide analyses of this new dataset as well as several baselines and a multi-stream end-to-end trainable neural network framework for the TVQA task. The dataset is publicly available at http://tvqa.cs.unc.edu.
GPT-4 leads with 87.3%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
- 1 GPT-4 Mar 2023 87.3%
Source: Labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-4 Mar 2023 | 87.3% | Mar 2023 | Lab model card |
OpenAI’s own number for GPT-4 passed 85% in March 2023
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Labs dropped it from launch posts once the best score passed 85%
Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2023 | GPT-4 | 87.3 | TVQA Accuracy (val) 0-shot |
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