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CoVEBench: Can Video Editing Models Handle Complex Instructions?

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Daily Paper Cast
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Jun 10, 2026
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🤗 Upvotes: 44 | cs.CV, cs.AI Authors: Jiangtao Wu, Jiaming Wang, Yiwen He, Yuanxing Zhang, Shihao Li, Dunyuan Liu, Xuedong Zhao, Jialu Chen, Zekun Moore Wang, Jiaheng Liu Title: CoVEBench: Can Video Editing Models Handle Complex Instructions? Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08415v1 Abstract: While recent text-guided video editing models excel at elementary tasks (e.g., style transfer, object insertion), real-world user requests are highly compositional. A single prompt often demands multiple coupled edits, such as modifying subjects, actions, and camera views, while strictly preserving unrelated spatiotemporal content. Existing benchmarks, heavily constrained by isolated edits and coarse global metrics, fail to diagnose how models handle such complex workflows. To address this gap, we introduce CoVEBench, a compositional video editing benchmark comprising 416 curated source videos, 626 multi-point editing instructions, and 9,990 fine-grained checklist items. Covering diverse editing dimensions, CoVEBench evaluates models via MLLM-judged instruction compliance and video fidelity, alongside automated metrics for video quality. Extensive experiments reveal that compositional editing remains a profound challenge: current models frequently omit edits, violate preservation constraints, or introduce artifacts when handling multiple operations simultaneously. CoVEBench provides a challenging, diagnostic testbed to advance video editing toward realistic user workflows.