Datasets:

omlab
/

trace-bench

license: other
pretty_name: TRACE v1.1.0
task_categories:
  - visual-question-answering
  - video-text-to-text
tags:
  - video
  - streaming-video
  - temporal-reasoning
  - benchmark
language:
  - en
  - zh
configs:
  - config_name: qa
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/releases/v1.1.0/qa.jsonl
  - config_name: proactive
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/releases/v1.1.0/proactive.jsonl

TRACE

Temporal Audit and Condition-aware Evaluation of Streaming Video Understanding

Timestamped video QA and proactive-response annotations for evaluating what a model knows, when it knows it, and how it responds.

How TRACE works

TRACE evaluation design from causal video input through the evaluation core, model adapter, model or system, and scoring

TRACE separates causal video delivery, model interaction, and scoring. The same public contract makes QA and Proactive Response results auditable across models:

QA: answer a question using only the video evidence available when it arrives.
Proactive Response: produce the requested response inside the annotated event or state window.
Traceability: retain source identities, release hashes, temporal annotations, and validation artifacts.

Release at a glance

Population	Records	Windows
QA	833	—
Proactive Response	415	1,338
Proactive standard subset	407	1,270
Proactive sampling-stress subset	8	68
Tiny setup subset	9 QA + 9 Proactive	—

This repository contains the frozen v1.1.0 annotation snapshot. It does not include videos or model weights. video_path values are relative provenance identifiers; users must obtain permitted source videos from their upstream providers.

Files

data/releases/v1.1.0/qa.jsonl: canonical QA records.
data/releases/v1.1.0/proactive.jsonl: canonical Proactive records and response windows.
data/releases/v1.1.0/manifest.json: release identity, counts, and SHA-256 hashes.
data/releases/README.md: complete file inventory and field reference.
docs/dataset-card.md: populations, review coverage, and limitations.

The release also includes tiny and Proactive subset definitions, review change and exclusion ledgers, a review summary, and a validation report. Keep these sidecar files together when verifying the manifest.

Data terms and limitations

This dataset contains public ground truth for evaluation, not model input. Timestamps use the original video time coordinate and intervals are half-open. Review coverage and known limitations are recorded in the release artifacts.

Please read DATA_TERMS.md and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md before use. TRACE-owned additions are separately described there; the MIT code license does not relicense upstream data or videos. Upstream redistribution permissions must be resolved before making this dataset public.

Citation

See CITATION.cff for the TRACE citation and upstream attribution requirements. When reporting results, include the data release, protocol, and scorer versions used.