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EgoArgus: Benchmarking VLMs as Situational Assistants for Modality-Grounded User Supports

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

VLMs are increasingly positioned as daily assistants that perceive first-person environments, follow user dialogue, and decide how to help. Existing egocentric benchmarks mainly evaluate visual understanding in isolation, leaving open whether models can arbitrate between visual evidence and user-provided language when the two are helpful, irrelevant, or conflicting. We introduce EgoArgus, a human-annotated dataset for evaluating egocentric assistants on understanding and decision tasks in five dialogue-video daily scenarios. Our results demonstrate that it is still challenging for current VLMs

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