EgoArgus (Assistance Decision) - Text-Grounded: leaderboard

EgoArgus (Tang, Liu and Yen, 2026) evaluates vision-language models as egocentric assistants: from a first-person video, a dialogue and its timestamp, the model decides whether help is needed in 789 VISTA episodes. This board covers episodes where the dialogue decides and the video is irrelevant. Assistance-decision F1 in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Assistance-decision F1 (%; whether help is required, from the egocentric video, dialogue and dialogue timestamp of 789 VISTA episodes, text-grounded scenario: the dialogue decides and the video is irrelevant; API models get the full video, open models sampled frames). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 7 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite94.63#363
2Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-02-15)44.44#178
3Qwen 3.5 2B22.03#4849
4Molmo2-8B12.51#1488

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

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