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 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, 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 large-scale scaling studies of video reasoning 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 toolkit, and models are publicly available at https://video-reason.com/ .
A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
A large-scale video reasoning dataset and benchmark are introduced to study video intelligence capabilities beyond visual quality, enabling systematic analysis of spatiotemporal reasoning and generalization across diverse tasks.
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56Danyang ZhangDahua LinZiqiao MaQianli MaZiwei LiuZhongang CaiRuisi WangLei YangJiachen LiYijiang LiHanwen XingBo LiYilun DuAlan YuilleZiming LiuDaniel KhashabiRaphaël MillièreYifan ZhouHua XuVikash KumarYanzhi WangFreda ShiMaijunxian WangJuyi LinRan JiThaddäus WiedemerQingying GaoDezhi LuoYaoyao QianLianyu HuangZelong HongJiahui GeHang HeLingzi GuoLantao MeiTianqi ZhaoFengyuan YuWeihang XiaoYizheng JiaoJianheng HouPengcheng XuBoyang ZhongZehong ZhaoGaoyun FangJohn KitaokaYile XuKenton BlacuttTin NguyenSiyuan SongHaoran SunShaoyue WenLinyang HeRunming WangMengyue YangNuno VasconcelosHokin Deng