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FutureOmni is the first benchmark that tests whether multimodal LLMs can forecast what happens next from video plus audio, and it finds the best model tops out at 64.8% accuracy.

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2026-08-03 09:23 UTC pith:OLCX4ZUO

load-bearing objection A genuinely useful new benchmark for audio-visual future forecasting, but the OFF training results rest on an undocumented data split that needs to be cleaned up before the paper is publishable. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2601.13836 v2 pith:OLCX4ZUO submitted 2026-01-20 cs.CL cs.CVcs.MM

FutureOmni: Evaluating Future Forecasting from Omni-Modal Context for Multimodal LLMs

classification cs.CL cs.CVcs.MM
keywords future forecastingomni-modal reasoningaudio-visual integrationmultimodal LLM benchmarkcausal reasoninginstruction tuningvideo understanding
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved

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This paper introduces FutureOmni, a benchmark of 919 videos and 1,034 multiple-choice questions designed to test whether multimodal language models can forecast what happens next from combined audio and visual context. It argues that previous benchmarks only test retrospective understanding, so the field lacks a measure of omni-modal future prediction — a capability relevant to autonomous driving, safety monitoring, and assistive systems. Evaluating 20 models, the paper finds that even the best system, Gemini 3 Flash, reaches only 64.8% accuracy, and that removing either audio or video costs roughly five accuracy points, evidence that genuine cross-modal integration is required rather than single-modality shortcuts. The paper also proposes an Omni-Modal Future Forecasting (OFF) training strategy built on a rationale-augmented 7K-sample dataset, reporting gains on FutureOmni that transfer to other audio-visual and video-only benchmarks. A reader should care because the benchmark defines a new capability axis for MLLMs and the training result suggests a concrete path toward improving it.

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper's central discovery is that future forecasting from audio-visual context is a distinct and underserved capability of MLLMs, and the performance gap is driven mainly by visual perception errors and cross-modal reasoning failures rather than missing world knowledge. The benchmark's four adversarial distractor types force models to reason across modalities and about the direction of time. Under these conditions, omni-modal models outperform video-only models, and the best accuracy is 64.8%. Fine-tuning on FutureOmni-7K with OFF improves open-source models by up to +3.87% overall, with the largest gains in speech-heavy scenarios, and gains carry over to out-of-domain

What carries the argument

The load-bearing component is the audio-coordinated video selection filter, which keeps only the 50% of videos whose captions change most when the audio track is removed, operationalizing 'audio causally matters' as 'caption similarity drops without audio.' The rest of the pipeline — temporal grounding via Gemini 2.5 Flash, causal-pair discovery and audio-causal scoring via DeepSeek-V3.2, distractor generation with four adversarial heuristics, and dual-stage GPT-4o plus human verification — turns those videos into forecasting QA pairs. The OFF training strategy wraps the same rationales into instruction-tuning samples so models learn the reasoning chain rather than just the answer.

Load-bearing premise

The benchmark's claim that audio is causally important rests on the assumption that videos where removing audio most changes an automatic caption are exactly the videos where audio genuinely drives future events — a proxy that may select unusual clips rather than representative ones.

What would settle it

Run the same 20-model evaluation on the 50% of collected videos that were discarded for showing low caption change when audio was removed; if the omni-modal advantage over video-only models shrinks or disappears there, the core 'audio-visual integration matters' conclusion is an artifact of the selection filter.

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If this is right

  • If the reported gap is real, future forecasting should be tracked as its own benchmark dimension in MLLM development, separate from retrospective video QA.
  • Models that pass FutureOmni would, by construction, be able to use speech, sound effects, and music to anticipate immediate next events, a capability directly relevant to robotics, safety monitoring, and autonomous driving.
  • Short clips being hardest implies forecasting depends on accumulated context, so model builders should evaluate with variable context windows rather than fixed-length inputs.
  • OFF-style rationale-augmented instruction tuning is a reproducible recipe: roughly 7K samples and one LoRA epoch yield gains on the benchmark and transfer to other tasks, indicating future-forecasting skill is trainable.
  • The four distractor types double as a diagnostic: a model that fails specifically on audio-only or reverse-causal options can be fingerprinted as over-relying on one modality or confusing temporal direction.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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  • Because the selection filter keeps only audio-dependent videos, FutureOmni likely overstates both the average difficulty of audio-visual forecasting and the benefit of audio; re-weighting results by the unfiltered video distribution would give a more calibrated ability estimate.
  • The attention-visualization result suggests a generic mechanism — forecasting training changes where the model looks, not just what it knows. A direct test would apply OFF to a model without an audio branch and check whether visual keyframe attention alone explains the gains on video-only benchmarks.
  • The pipeline itself is reusable: audio-coordinated filtering plus LLM causal-pair mining could generate forecasting benchmarks for specific high-stakes domains such as driving or factory safety, provided the causal-pair step is audited for hallucinated timestamps — a risk the paper's own correction prompt acknowledges.
  • A natural next step the paper does not take is to compare OFF against training on the same QA pairs without rationales, isolating whether the rationale component drives generalization or whether the gains come simply from more task-specific data.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces FutureOmni, a benchmark for evaluating multimodal LLMs on future-event forecasting from joint audio-visual context. It contains 919 videos and 1,034 multiple-choice QA pairs across 8 domains, built by filtering YouTube videos for audio dependency, using Gemini 2.5 Flash for temporal grounding, DeepSeek-V3.2 for causal-pair extraction, and GPT-4o plus human verification for QA generation. The authors evaluate 20 open-source and proprietary MLLMs, report that all models struggle (best 64.8% by Gemini 3 Flash), and observe that omni-modal models outperform video-only ones. They then introduce a 7K instruction-tuning dataset and an OFF training strategy, reporting improvements on FutureOmni and on six out-of-domain benchmarks, plus attention visualizations suggesting better keyframe focus. The paper claims to be the first benchmark for omni-modal future forecasting and makes both the code and data publicly available.

Significance. If the claims hold, FutureOmni fills a genuine gap: it targets an understudied task, includes adversarial distractor types designed to force cross-modal reasoning, and evaluates a broad set of 20 models. The core finding that current models are far from solving audio-visual future forecasting is likely robust and useful to the community. The proposed OFF training strategy and the released artifacts are potentially valuable. However, the training-set provenance and its overlap with the evaluation set are not documented, which makes the OFF generalization claims currently unverifiable. The paper would be a solid benchmark contribution after these issues are resolved.

major comments (4)
  1. [Sec. 5.1 / Sec. 3] The provenance of FutureOmni-7K is not specified. Section 3 describes a pipeline producing 1,034 evaluation QAs, while Section 5 introduces a separate 7K instruction-tuning set without stating whether it was generated from the same filtered videos, whether the 1,034 evaluation QAs were excluded, or whether any video-level deduplication was applied. Without this information, the reported gains in Tables 4-6 (e.g., +3.87 for video-SALMONN2) could reflect memorization of evaluation videos rather than improved forecasting. This is load-bearing for claim F2. Please document the construction of FutureOmni-7K, report the split and deduplication procedure, and provide overlap statistics.
  2. [Sec. 4.2 / Table 3] The claim that text-based augmentations 'still fall short of the full A+V setting' is contradicted by MiniCPM-o 2.6, where V+S achieves 49.80 vs. A+V 48.54. Thus the conclusion that raw audio is necessary for best performance is not uniformly supported by the presented data. Please correct the claim, or analyze and explain this exception. The current wording overstates the modality-ablation result.
  3. [Sec. 3.3 / Appendix C] Human verification is claimed, but no human accuracy, inter-annotator agreement, or number of QAs rejected or revised is reported; Appendix C contains prompts only. Without a human upper bound, the answerability and quality of the benchmark are unverified. This is particularly important because the dataset was constructed with LLM assistance (Gemini 2.5 Flash, DeepSeek-V3.2, GPT-4o), so model bias may be embedded in the questions. Please add human evaluation statistics and any mitigation against LLM artifacts.
  4. [Sec. 3.1 / Appendix B.5] The audio-coordinated filtering retains only the top 50% of videos by caption-similarity drop. This is a disclosed design choice, but it limits the benchmark to audio-centric events; the finding that omni-modal models outperform video-only models may be partly a consequence of this selection. Please state this limitation explicitly and, if feasible, provide a sensitivity analysis on the excluded videos to estimate how much the omni-vs-video gap depends on the filtering ratio.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sec. 3.1 vs Appendix B.5] The wording is inconsistent: Sec. 3.1 says 'we only select top-50% videos', while Appendix B.5 says 'we retain the bottom 50% with the lowest scores.' Please clarify the ranking direction.
  2. [Throughout] There are numerous typos and grammatical errors (e.g., 'forcasting', 'evlauating', 'typocally', 'auido-video', 'verfication'). A careful proofreading pass is needed.
  3. [Sec. 4.1] Inference details are underspecified: number of sampled frames, sampling strategy, maximum token length, and decoding settings are not reported. Since models are compared on accuracy, these details matter for reproducibility.
  4. [Sec. 5.2 / Figure 7] The attention visualization is qualitative and lacks error bars or statistical aggregation. The claim of 'consistent elevation' should be supported by quantitative measures.
  5. [Table 4] Qwen2.5-Omni improves by about 10 points on Speech but drops by 7 points on Sound and by 3.4 points on Music; the text highlights only the Speech gain. Please qualify the claim that OFF 'significantly boosts performance in the challenging Speech category' with the full pattern.

Circularity Check

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No demonstrable circularity: the benchmark results and OFF generalization claims rest on external measurements, and the only self-citation is unrelated related-work context.

full rationale

FutureOmni is a dataset/evaluation paper rather than a derived mathematical result, so there is no equation-level chain in which an output is equivalent to an input by construction. The audio-coordinated video selection (Sec. 3.1) is a disclosed sampling criterion: videos are retained when captions change most under audio removal, but this does not by itself determine any model's accuracy, and the headline finding (best accuracy 64.8%, models struggle on speech-heavy scenarios) is an empirical measurement on the resulting benchmark. The OFF training result is also externally checked: Table 6 evaluates the fine-tuned models on independent benchmarks such as WorldSense, DailyOmni, JointAVBench, OmniVideoBench, Video-MME, and MLVU, so the generalization claim does not reduce to in-sample fitting. A potential overlap between FutureOmni-7K and the 1,034 evaluation QAs is not documented, and if it exists it would be a data-integrity/leakage problem rather than a demonstrated circular step; the paper provides no quoted text establishing that the training set contains evaluation samples. The only self-citation is FutureX (ref. [48]), which shares co-author Xipeng Qiu, but it appears solely in related-work positioning ('FutureBench, ForecastBench, FutureX, and MIRAI predict real-world future events...') and is not load-bearing for any result. No imported uniqueness theorem, no ansatz smuggled through citation, and no renamed empirical pattern were found. The reader's concern about audio-filter representativeness is a validity caveat about benchmark design, not circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

5 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central benchmark rests on hand-set dataset construction thresholds and on LLM annotations treated as ground truth. None of these are fitted to the final model scores, but the 50% audio-dependency filter and the 30-second causal window directly shape which videos and questions constitute the benchmark, and therefore shape the conclusions about audio's importance.

free parameters (5)
  • Inter-frame similarity cutoff = 70%
    Hand-set threshold in Sec. 3.1 to remove videos with limited scene changes; affects which videos enter the benchmark.
  • Audio-dependency retention ratio = top 50%
    Sec. 3.1 keeps only the half of videos with largest caption similarity drop when audio is removed; directly shapes the audio-centric nature of the benchmark.
  • MFCC boundary threshold = 2.0
    Sec. 3.2 uses a pre-defined threshold to decide whether a timestamp boundary is acoustically valid; no sensitivity analysis is reported.
  • Maximum cause-effect time gap = 30 seconds
    Sec. 3.3 restricts causal pairs to a 30-second gap between premise and target event; a hand-set definition of what counts as predictable.
  • Audio causal contribution score threshold = score 2 = causality
    Sec. 3.3 asks DeepSeek to score audio causal factor from 0 to 2, where 2 denotes causality; used to classify audio-driven future forecasting pairs.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption LLM-generated captions, causal pairs, rationales, and distractors are sufficiently accurate ground truth after human verification.
    Introduced in Sec. 3.2-3.3; Appendix C is referenced for human verification, but no inter-annotator agreement or human error rate is reported in the main text.
  • domain assumption The audio-dependency filtering step identifies videos where audio is causally relevant.
    Sec. 3.1/B.5 assumes that a large caption cosine-similarity drop when audio is removed is a valid proxy for audio's causal role in the video.
  • domain assumption MFCC discontinuities with a fixed threshold of 2.0 mark true event boundaries.
    Sec. 3.2 Time Boundary Checking uses this assumption for validating timestamps, without calibration or error analysis.
  • domain assumption DeepSeek-V3.2 can reliably extract causal relations from chronological event descriptions within a 30-second window.
    Sec. 3.3 Causal Pair Discovery relies on an LLM to decide which adjacent events are logical consequences; this is a model-dependent annotation step.
  • domain assumption Official model implementations and LoRA fine-tuning settings reproduce the intended behavior of evaluated models.
    Sec. 4.1 and B.1 assume official inference code and standard hyperparameters faithfully represent each model's capability.

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Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong omni-modal perception, their ability to forecast future events from audio-visual cues remains largely unexplored, as existing benchmarks focus mainly on retrospective understanding. To bridge this gap, we introduce FutureOmni, the first benchmark designed to evaluate omni-modal future forecasting from audio-visual environments. The evaluated models are required to perform cross-modal causal and temporal reasoning, as well as effectively leverage internal knowledge to predict future events. FutureOmni is constructed via a scalable LLM-assisted, human-in-the-loop pipeline and contains 919 videos and 1,034 multiple-choice QA pairs across 8 primary domains. Evaluations on 13 omni-modal and 7 video-only models show that current systems struggle with audio-visual future prediction, particularly in speech-heavy scenarios, with the best accuracy of 64.8% achieved by Gemini 3 Flash. To mitigate this limitation, we curate a 7K-sample instruction-tuning dataset and propose an Omni-Modal Future Forecasting (OFF) training strategy. Evaluations on FutureOmni and popular audio-visual and video-only benchmarks demonstrate that OFF enhances future forecasting and generalization. We publicly release all code (https://github.com/OpenMOSS/FutureOmni) and datasets (https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenMOSS-Team/FutureOmni).

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