ResearchResearch paperMultimodal Models · Speech & Audio1 source · Oct 20, 2026

DIVE: Benchmarking Full-Duplex Interaction with Visual Engagement in Continuous Streams

To address this gap, we introduce DIVE, a benchmark for evaluating full-duplex interaction with visual engagement under continuous and realistic multimodal streams.

Key points

  • Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have substantially improved spoken interaction and video understanding.
  • Existing online and streaming benchmarks primarily assess causal multimodal perception through timestamped question answering, whereas real-world interaction requires models to continuously identify task-relevant multimodal cues and decide whether, when, and how to respond.
  • This leaves open how well current models can sustain real-time interaction throughout an evolving multimodal stream.
  • (3) Interaction Coordination evaluates how models coordinate listening and speaking under overlapping and multi-party interactions.

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  • [1]DIVE: Benchmarking Full-Duplex Interaction with Visual Engagement in Continuous Streams
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 20, 03:48 PM
    To address this gap, we introduce DIVE, a benchmark for evaluating full-duplex interaction with visual engagement under continuous and realistic multimodal streams.
    Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have substantially improved spoken interaction and video understanding.

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