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K9-Bench

Robotics & Autonomous SystemsMultimodal Perception

K9-Bench is a benchmark focused on real-world domestic dog videos, with approximately 5,000 question-answer pairs across 907 videos spanning 5 task categories. The tasks test long-form, canine-centric multimodal reasoning, including action and interaction understanding. A VLM/LLM-powered pipeline was used for data generation.

Released
2026-07-02
Readiness
Inspectable
Primary field
Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Why it matters

It addresses the underexplored application of multimodal models to animal-centric scenarios, providing a benchmark to evaluate models on recognizing distress signals and enabling responsive robotic companions.

Motivation

MLLMs have shown strong zero-shot capabilities across diverse inputs such as across images, video, audio, and text.

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