Benchmarks for Streaming Video Understanding

A short index of benchmarks used by recent streaming and long-video VLM papers.

May 2, 2026 · Updated July 24, 2026 · 12 min

StreamChat

Streaming Video Understanding and Multi-round Interaction with Memory-enhanced Knowledge.

May 2, 2026 · Updated June 8, 2026 · ICLR 2025 · 12 min

Long Streaming Video Understanding Pipeline

A pipeline view of recent long streaming video understanding papers.

April 27, 2026 · 13 min

StreamingTOM

Streaming Token Compression for Efficient Video Understanding.

April 27, 2026 · Updated June 8, 2026 · CVPR 2026 · 11 min

LiveVLM

Efficient Online Video Understanding via Streaming-Oriented KV Cache and Retrieval.

April 25, 2026 · Updated June 8, 2026 · DAC 2026 · 12 min

StreamMem

Query-Agnostic KV Cache Memory for Streaming Video Understanding.

April 24, 2026 · Updated June 8, 2026 · VidLLMs 2026 · 10 min

rLiVS

Recurrent Attention-based Token Selection for Efficient Streaming Video-LLMs.

April 23, 2026 · Updated June 8, 2026 · NeurIPS 2025 · 8 min

InfiniPot-V

Memory-Constrained KV Cache Compression for Streaming Video Understanding.

April 23, 2026 · Updated June 8, 2026 · NeurIPS 2025 · 11 min

StreamKV

Streaming Video Question-Answering with Segment-based KV Cache Retrieval and Compression.

April 22, 2026 · Updated June 8, 2026 · AAAI 2026 · 8 min

ReKV

Streaming Video Question-Answering with In-context Video KV-Cache Retrieval.

April 22, 2026 · Updated June 8, 2026 · ICLR 2025 · 3 min