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arxiv: 2605.27074 · v1 · pith:3X7BXFJCnew · submitted 2026-05-26 · 💻 cs.CV

IPIBench: Evaluating Interactive Proactive Intelligence of MLLMs under Continuous Streams

Jinzhao Li , Yinuo Chen , Wenxuan Song , Yijia Lei , Yichi Zhang , Honglei Yan , Panwang Pan , Miao Liu This is my paper

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keywords multimodal large language modelsproactive intelligencestreaming videointeractive benchmarkagent frameworkreactive-proactive coordinationtemporal gating
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Existing MLLMs show unstable proactive triggering and weak coordination in streaming video, which a training-free agent with control policies and temporal gating can stabilize.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces IPIBench as the first benchmark designed to test multimodal large language models on proactive monitoring, task management, and interleaved reactive-proactive requests inside continuous video streams. It demonstrates through evaluation that current models frequently fail to decide when to act on their own and struggle to balance those actions with user-driven queries. The authors then present IPI-Agent, a training-free framework that adds an interaction-control policy and temporal-gating mechanism to address these issues. A sympathetic reader would care because real assistants must operate over ongoing visual input rather than isolated questions, and the benchmark moves evaluation closer to that requirement. The work establishes both the measurement tool and a practical improvement method that works across existing models.

Core claim

The paper claims that representative MLLMs exhibit two core limitations under continuous visual streams: unstable proactive triggering and weak coordination between reactive and proactive behaviors, and that IPI-Agent, built around an interaction-control policy and temporal-gating mechanism, consistently improves performance on all IPIBench settings without any model fine-tuning or task-specific adaptation.

What carries the argument

IPIBench benchmark covering proactive monitoring, proactive task management, and interleaved reactive-proactive requests in streaming video, paired with IPI-Agent, a training-free agentic framework that applies an interaction-control policy and temporal-gating mechanism to stabilize triggering and coordinate behaviors.

If this is right

  • MLLMs equipped with IPI-Agent show measurable gains in proactive stability and behavioral coordination across all benchmark settings.
  • The interaction-control policy enables reliable decision-making about when to initiate proactive actions during multi-turn streams.
  • Temporal gating improves separation and integration of reactive queries with ongoing proactive monitoring.
  • Existing models can reach better performance on dynamic streaming tasks without retraining.
  • The benchmark provides a standardized way to measure progress on interactive proactive intelligence.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar control policies could be tested on audio or sensor streams to support always-on assistants in other modalities.
  • Production systems might adopt the gating approach to lower false-positive proactive interventions without custom training data.
  • The benchmark structure could guide creation of longer-horizon interaction datasets that track request history over extended sessions.
  • If the mechanisms prove robust, they may reduce reliance on expensive fine-tuning loops for interaction-aware models.

Load-bearing premise

The interaction-control policy and temporal-gating mechanism can be applied generally to stabilize proactive triggering and coordinate behaviors across different MLLMs without model-specific fine-tuning or benchmark-specific adaptation.

What would settle it

Applying the IPI-Agent framework to an MLLM outside the original evaluation set on a new streaming video task where proactive triggering remains unstable or reactive-proactive coordination does not improve would falsify the general applicability claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.27074 by Honglei Yan, Jinzhao Li, Miao Liu, Panwang Pan, Wenxuan Song, Yichi Zhang, Yijia Lei, Yinuo Chen.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Visual examples of our proposed IPI-Bench. For single-turn proactive monitoring tasks, our benchmark covers timing, understanding, and repeated proactiveness. For multi-turn interactive proactive tasks, the benchmark further addresses proactive task management (e.g., modification, cancellation, and multi-task management) and interleaved reactive–proactive requests. benchmark for evaluating Interactive Proa… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Statistics of our IPIBench. Left: Distribution of the three formulated task categories and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of IPI-Agent, a training-free agentic framework for interactive proactive behavior under streaming settings. IPI-Agent operates under two workflows: Query Arrival and Continuous Monitoring. The framework maintains a unified Interaction-Control Policy through a Memory Tool and an Intent Router to coordinate reactive, proactive, and management instructions. In addition, IPI-Agent introduces a Tempor… view at source ↗
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Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on reactive question answering, but real-world streaming assistants require proactive reasoning over continuous visual inputs. Existing benchmarks mainly study reactive or proactive interactions in isolated single-turn settings, overlooking dynamic multi-turn scenarios where users may add, modify, or cancel proactive requests alongside interleaved reactive queries. To address this gap, we introduce IPIBench, the first benchmark for evaluating Interactive Proactive Intelligence of MLLMs under streaming video settings. IPIBench covers proactive monitoring, proactive task management, and interleaved reactive-proactive requests. Evaluations on representative MLLMs reveal two major limitations: unstable proactive triggering and weak coordination between reactive and proactive behaviors. We further propose IPI-Agent, a training-free agentic framework with an interaction-control policy and a temporal-gating mechanism for stabilizing proactive triggering and coordinating multi-turn interactions. Experiments show that IPI-Agent consistently improves existing MLLMs across all benchmark settings.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces IPIBench as the first benchmark for evaluating interactive proactive intelligence of MLLMs under continuous streaming video inputs, covering proactive monitoring, task management, and interleaved reactive-proactive requests. It identifies two limitations in existing MLLMs (unstable proactive triggering and weak coordination between reactive and proactive behaviors) and proposes IPI-Agent, a training-free agentic framework using an interaction-control policy and temporal-gating mechanism, claiming consistent improvements across all benchmark settings.

Significance. If the benchmark construction, metrics, and experimental results hold up under scrutiny, the work would address a genuine gap in evaluating dynamic, multi-turn proactive capabilities for real-world streaming assistants, providing a new evaluation resource and a simple baseline agent framework.

major comments (2)
  1. No details are provided on IPIBench construction (dataset sources, video stream generation, annotation protocol, or task distribution statistics), which is load-bearing for the central claim that existing MLLMs exhibit the two stated limitations.
  2. The abstract states that IPI-Agent 'consistently improves existing MLLMs across all benchmark settings' but supplies no quantitative results, ablation studies on the interaction-control policy or temporal-gating mechanism, or comparison against fine-tuned baselines, preventing verification that the gains are not due to benchmark-specific tuning.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback on our work introducing IPIBench and the IPI-Agent framework. We address each major comment below with clarifications and plans for revision where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: No details are provided on IPIBench construction (dataset sources, video stream generation, annotation protocol, or task distribution statistics), which is load-bearing for the central claim that existing MLLMs exhibit the two stated limitations.

    Authors: We agree that additional details on benchmark construction would strengthen the paper and support the claims about MLLM limitations. The current manuscript provides an overview in Section 3, but we will expand it in revision to explicitly include: sources of the video streams (e.g., public datasets and synthetic generation methods), the protocol for creating continuous streaming inputs with interleaved requests, the full annotation guidelines and inter-annotator agreement, and detailed task distribution statistics (e.g., proportions of proactive monitoring, task management, and reactive-proactive interleaving). This will be added as a new subsection or appendix to ensure reproducibility. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The abstract states that IPI-Agent 'consistently improves existing MLLMs across all benchmark settings' but supplies no quantitative results, ablation studies on the interaction-control policy or temporal-gating mechanism, or comparison against fine-tuned baselines, preventing verification that the gains are not due to benchmark-specific tuning.

    Authors: The abstract summarizes the key finding, while the full quantitative results (including per-setting improvements for multiple MLLMs) are reported in Section 5 with accompanying tables. However, we acknowledge the value of component ablations and additional baselines. In the revised manuscript, we will add an ablation study isolating the interaction-control policy and temporal-gating mechanism, along with comparisons to relevant training-free and fine-tuned baselines where feasible. As IPI-Agent is explicitly training-free, we will clarify that the primary contribution is the agentic framework rather than end-to-end fine-tuning, but the added experiments will address concerns about benchmark-specific effects. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper introduces a new benchmark (IPIBench) and a training-free agentic framework (IPI-Agent) with an interaction-control policy and temporal-gating mechanism. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters, or self-citation chains are present in the provided abstract or description that reduce any claimed result to its inputs by construction. The central claims rest on empirical evaluations of existing MLLMs and the proposed framework's improvements, which are presented as independent experimental outcomes rather than self-referential definitions or renamings. This is a standard benchmark/framework paper with no load-bearing circular steps.

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