Benchmark Almanac

DREAM-1K

Seed1.5-VL 43.9% Dropped

Video models write fine-grained descriptions of 1,000 videos from varied sources. An automatic method scores how many described events match the reference.

Released with the Tarsier video description models. The 1,000 count follows the name.

Made by ByteDance Research (Tarsier team) Released Jul 2024 Video captioning All tasks public Last in a launch post May 2025 , dropped before it saturated Last model added May 2025
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
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Model scored in lab cards
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Launch post lists it, from 1 lab
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System card reports it, from 1 lab

Seed1.5-VL leads with 43.9%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Seed1.5-VL 43.9%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Seed1.5-VL 43.9% May 2025 Model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed1.5-VL 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed1.5-VL

No launch post has listed it since May 2025

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

ByteDance Seed
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
12 May 2025 Seed1.5-VL 43.9 Dream-1K

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
11 May 2025 Seed1.5-VL technical report 43.9 Dream-1K, thinking (Table 7). Non-thinking 42.6 Capabilities

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