A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
Maijunxian Wang, Ruisi Wang, Juyi Lin, Ran Ji, Thaddäus Wiedemer, Qingying Gao, Dezhi Luo, Yaoyao Qian, Lianyu Huang, Zelong Hong, Jiahui Ge, Qianli Ma
Abstract
Rapid progress in video models has largely focused on visual quality, leaving their reasoning capabilities underexplored. Video reasoning grounds intelligence in spatiotemporally consistent visual environments that go beyond what text can naturally capture, enabling intuitive reasoning over spatiotemporal structure, such as continuity, interaction, and causality. However, systematically studying video reasoning and its scaling behavior is hindered by the lack of large-scale video reasoning training data. To address this gap, we introduce the Very Big Video Reasoning (VBVR) Dataset , an unprecedentedly large-scale resource spanning 200 curated reasoning tasks following a principled taxonomy, and over one million video clips, making it approximately three orders of magnitude larger than existing datasets. We further present VBVR-Bench , a verifiable evaluation framework that moves beyond model-based judging by incorporating rule-based, human-aligned scorers, enabling reproducible and interpretable diagnosis of video reasoning capabilities. Leveraging the VBVR suite, we conduct one of the first video reasoning scaling studies and observe early signs of emergent generalization to unseen reasoning tasks. Together, VBVR lays a foundation for the next stage of research in generalizable video reasoning. The data, benchmark tool kit, and models are released publicly at video-reason.com .
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