PlaylistEval tests video-language judges on ~100-hour playlists: best judge reaches only 75.4% pairwise accuracy against 93.0% human agreement
The work introduces PlaylistEval, an agentic framework that builds video-language judge benchmarks without human annotation by automatically generating questions whose evidence is scattered across two distant segments of ~100-hour playlists and whose wrong answers differ only visually, yielding PlaylistBench with 630 pairs across seven domains; on a stratified subset of 152 pairs it agrees with human judgments 93.0% of the time (IAA 0.781), while evaluating 17 omnimodal and multimodal models from eight families shows frontier judges reach only 75.4% pairwise accuracy, open-source judge models perform far behind, retrieval improves accuracy by up to 10.5 points yet the best retriever finds both relevant segments in the top 10 only 37.