Towards Comprehensive Basketball Understanding
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arXiv:2608.23435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding a basketball game requires recognizing events, localizing actions, identifying players, and relating these to structured game knowledge. Existing benchmarks primarily evaluate these abilities one at a time, leaving the interactions among these abilities under-explored. We introduce BasketballBench, a multimodal benchmark comprising 7,980 questions across ten tasks in text, image, and video. It is built from the 2025-2026 NBA season and includes official playby-play, rosters and profiles for 530 active players, and 2,501 possession
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.23435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding a basketball game requires recognizing events, localizing actions, identifying players, and relating these to structured game knowledge.
- Existing benchmarks primarily evaluate these abilities one at a time, leaving the interactions among these abilities under-explored.
- We introduce BasketballBench, a multimodal benchmark comprising 7,980 questions across ten tasks in text, image, and video.
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