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Companion-style QA Assistance in Ego-Vision

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 6, 2026 · UTC

AI companions are envisioned as always-on assistants that support users in daily life. With this regard, we introduce BuddyVQA, a benchmark for companion-style question answering (QA) on egocentric streaming video. BuddyVQA contains 21.6K questions linked to 6K highlight moments across 1,012 long, egocentric videos. It features two key characteristics that are common in daily first-person QA assistance but are largely overlooked in existing VideoQA benchmarks: ego-deictic expressions and interactively chained questions (e.g., "Where is it?", "How to get there?"). These require models to infer

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