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1 VideoWeave: Unlocking Geometric Consistency in Video Generation via Joint Geometry-Video Modeling Xunzhi Xiang, Zixuan Duan, Yabo Chen, Zhengxuan Wei, Guiyu Zhang, Zixiao Gu, Zhe Gao, Haibin Huang, Chi Zhang, Qi Fan, Xuelong Li

Benchmark & Evaluation Generative Modeling LLM Interpretability

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Paper 1 / arXiv:2606.14162 Open arXiv

Relevance 6 Novelty 7

Why selected: Matches criterion 4 and partly 2: video generation with explicit geometry modeling for better 3D consistency in generative vision models.

Large-scale video diffusion models often fail to preserve 3D structure over time, causing geometric drift and implausible motion under viewpoint changes. Existing methods usually enforce geometric consistency by using explicit geometry reconstructions, such as depth maps, point clouds, or reconstructed 3D structures, to define conditions, supervision, or reward signals, making the generator sensitive to errors from upstream geometry pipelines. We propose VideoWeave, a latent-space post-training framework that uses implicit geometry-model features to constrain the generative distribution, providing a more flexible and non-rigid form of guidance that mitigates the impact of reconstruction errors from geometry models. Specifically, VideoWeave adapts these features into geometry latents and jointly models them with video latents in a shared denoising space, allowing geometry to shape the generative distribution during training. To support this process, we build GeoVid-80K, an 80K-video dataset with paired appearance and geometry representations. Experiments on text-to-video and image-to-video generation show that VideoWeave improves geometric coherence while preserving strong visual quality. VideoWeave project page at https://videoweave.github.io/

3 CineOrchestra: Unified Entity-Centric Conditioning for Cinematic Video Generation Sharath Girish, Tsai-Shien Chen, Zhikang Dong, Mukesh Singhal, Hao Chen, Sergey Tulyakov, Aliaksandr Siarohin

Benchmark & Evaluation Generative Modeling Time-Series LLM

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Paper 3 / arXiv:2606.13768 Open arXiv

Relevance 6 Novelty 6

Why selected: Matches criterion 2 closely: a new multimodal/video generation model with unified entity-centric conditioning for complex cinematic control.

Cinematic video depicts multiple subjects acting or interacting at specific moments, captured with deliberate camera movement, and stitched together by shot transitions. Together, these elements demand a level of fine-grained control beyond current text-to-video models. Existing work addresses each axis in isolation: multi-subject personalization, temporal control, multi-shot synthesis, or camera control; no prior framework jointly integrates all four. We present CineOrchestra, a unified video diffusion model that controls subjects, events, cameras, and shot transitions simultaneously. Our key insight is that these heterogeneous cinematic elements share a fundamental structure: each is an entity acting over a specific temporal interval, which can therefore all be expressed through one shared structure of entity-centric conditioning primitives, augmented with reference images for visual entities. This formulation reduces the architectural challenge to a single positional encoding problem, which we solve with two parameter-free coordinated rotary embeddings: (a) an interval-sampled temporal RoPE that yields consistent attention behavior across events of dramatically varying duration, and (b) a 2D entity-temporal cross-attention RoPE that disambiguates per-entity conditions and routes each to its corresponding spatiotemporal region. On two new benchmarks, CineOrchestra outperforms six per-axis specialists on dense caption following and shot-transition timing, with consistent gains in a pairwise user study and component ablations.

4 StreamMemBench: Streaming Evaluation of Agent Memory for Future-Oriented Assistance Guanming Liu, Yuqi Ren, Hansu Gu, Peng Zhang, Weihang Wang, Jiahao Liu, Ning Gu, Tun Lu

Benchmark & Evaluation Embodied Interaction LLM Interpretability Retrieval & Grounding

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Paper 4 / arXiv:2606.14571 Open arXiv

Relevance 7 Novelty 5

Why selected: Matches criterion 3 very closely: it proposes a new benchmark for agent memory in streaming, future-oriented assistance with egocentric streams.

A central role of personal-agent memory is to turn stored information and prior interactions into future-oriented assistance. In daily use, useful cues come from what the agent observes and how the user interacts with the agent, and the agent must carry them forward from the current request to similar future tasks. Existing memory benchmarks usually test dialogue recall or task improvement in isolation, leaving the trajectory from streaming observations to later assistance largely untested. We introduce StreamMemBench, a streaming benchmark that constructs a two-step task sequence around each evidence anchor from EgoLife egocentric streams. The initial task tests evidence use, while the follow-up task tests whether feedback and interaction experience are reused. Four metrics diagnose evidence recall, initial evidence use, feedback incorporation, and follow-up reuse. Experiments with eight memory systems across two backbones show that current systems often fail to use observed evidence or turn feedback into reliable follow-up behavior, even when evidence is stored or feedback is incorporated locally. StreamMemBench is publicly available at https://github.com/landian60/StreamMemBench.

6 A New Multi-Domain Benchmark for Micro-Action Recognition and Detection Yanbin Hao, Pengyu Liu, Xing Wei, Xun Yang, Dan Gu, Meng Wang

Benchmark & Evaluation Safety & Backdoors LLM Interpretability Time-Series LLM

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Paper 6 / arXiv:2606.14096 Open arXiv

Relevance 6 Novelty 5

Why selected: Matches criterion 3 very closely: a new benchmark for micro-action recognition and detection with cross-domain and few-shot protocols.

Micro-actions are short-duration, low-amplitude subtle body movements at the whole-body level that can reveal latent intentions, involuntary reactions, and fine-grained affective changes. Our previous MA-52 benchmark has provided an important foundation for micro-action recognition, but it remains limited in scale, scene diversity, task coverage, and evaluation protocols. To advance micro-action analysis toward more realistic and comprehensive settings, we introduce MMA-82, a large-scale multi-domain extension of MA-52. MMA-82 expands the label space from 52 to 82 fine-grained micro-action categories and covers four distinct domains, including laboratory interviews, street interviews, psychiatric patient interviews, and emotion-rich television videos, resulting in 77,856 annotated instances from 454 subjects. Built upon MMA-82, we establish two core tasks: Micro-Action Recognition and Multi-label Micro-Action Detection. For recognition, we further define in-domain and cross-domain protocols, including few-shot and zero-shot settings, to evaluate model robustness, transferability, and generalization. Extensive experiments show that current methods still struggle with realistic micro-action understanding, especially under domain shift, long-tailed category distributions, and complex temporal localization. Beyond benchmarking, we investigate the relationship between micro-actions and emotion, showing that micro-actions are strongly associated with emotional states and provide complementary cues to facial micro-expressions for improved emotion recognition. These results demonstrate that MMA-82 serves as a comprehensive and challenging benchmark for realistic micro-action analysis and a valuable resource for human-centered AI. MMA-82 is available at https://github.com/LpyNow/MMA-82.

7 VISTA: View-Consistent Self-Verified Training for GUI Grounding Xinyu Qiu, Yunzhu Zhang, Heng Jia, Shuheng Shen, Changhua Meng, Linchao Zhu

Benchmark & Evaluation Generative Modeling

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Paper 7 / arXiv:2606.14579 Open arXiv

Relevance 5 Novelty 5

Why selected: Matches criterion 1 moderately well: it proposes a new training method for GUI grounding that improves spatial/view consistency for embodied-style interaction with screens.

When applying Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) for GUI Grounding, rollouts are sampled from a single screenshot view; groups often become either all failures on difficult instances or all successes on easy ones, yielding no useful relative advantage. We propose VISTA (View-Consistent Self-Verified Training), a GRPO-based training framework that constructs each comparison group from multiple target-preserving views of the same GUI instance.Each view is generated by a crop that keeps the target element visible and remaps its box exactly, so model rollouts are compared across semantically equivalent but geometrically different inputs. To stabilize short coordinate generation without turning reinforcement learning into unconditional imitation, VISTA further adds a self-verified cross-view anchor: an oracle answer optimized with an advantage-weighted loss, excluded from the group baseline and activated only when the model has produced a maximum-reward rollout. Across five GUI-grounding benchmarks and multiple Qwen backbones, VISTA consistently improves grounding accuracy.On ScreenSpot-Pro, it raises Qwen3-VL 4B/8B/30B-A3B from 55.5/52.7/53.7 to 63.4/65.8/67.0. Robustness analyses further show higher worst-view accuracy and lower prediction flip rates.

8 Avatar V: Scaling Video-Reference Avatar Video Generation Benjamin Liang, Ce Chen, Desmond Lin, Ivan Somov, Jiajun Zhao, Jiewei Yuan, Jingfeng Zhang, Junhao Huang, Nik Nolte, Pedram Haqiqi, Penghan Wang, Rong Yan, Rui Zhang, Sam Prokopchuk, Sivan Wang, Viktor Goriachko, Yi Ren, Yuanming Li, Yutao Chen, Zhenhui Ye, Zhibin Hong, Zilong Nie, Zujin Guo

Benchmark & Evaluation Generative Modeling

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Paper 8 / arXiv:2606.13872 Open arXiv

Relevance 4 Novelty 6

Why selected: Matches criterion 4 partially: it is a large-scale generative video model for avatar generation, which is relevant to vision foundation model applications and multimodal generative modeling.

Generating avatar videos that are not merely visually similar to a target individual but behaviorally recognizable, faithfully reproducing their talking rhythm, gestural tendencies, and expression dynamics, remains an open challenge. Existing methods predominantly condition on single static images, which provide insufficient identity information and cannot capture dynamic motion traits, while standard pixel-level objectives underserve the perceptually critical facial regions that determine avatar fidelity. We present Avatar V, a production-scale framework that addresses these limitations through video-reference-conditioned identity modeling. Rather than compressing identity into fixed-size embeddings, the model conditions directly on the full token sequence of a reference video, learning to reproduce both static identity attributes (facial geometry, skin texture) and dynamic behavioral patterns (talking rhythm, micro-expressions) through attention over the reference context. We introduce Sparse Reference Attention, an asymmetric mechanism achieving linear-complexity conditioning on arbitrarily long references; a motion representation stream enabling closed-loop talking style transfer; and an identity-aware super-resolution refiner inheriting the full reference conditioning. These are supported by a data engine curating 100M+ training clips from 50M raw videos, and a five-stage training pipeline with flow matching pre-training, personality fine-tuning, two-phase distillation (>10x acceleration), and RLHF alignment, deployed across thousands of GPUs. Avatar V generates 1080p videos of unlimited duration, achieving state-of-the-art identity preservation, lip synchronization, and generation quality on our cross-scene benchmark, consistently outperforming leading systems including Seedance 2.0, Kling O3 Pro, Veo 3.1, and OmniHuman 1.5 in both automated metrics and human evaluation.

9 TSA: Temporal Slot Activation for Persistent Object-Centric Video Representation Duc Nguyen, Sieu Tran, Hao Vo, Khoa Vo, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Nghi D. Q. Bui, Anh Nguyen, Long Mai, Ngan Le

Benchmark & Evaluation LLM Interpretability Time-Series LLM Retrieval & Grounding

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Paper 9 / arXiv:2606.13714 Open arXiv

Relevance 5 Novelty 5

Why selected: Matches criterion 1: it proposes a new method for persistent object-centric video representation with improved temporal slot lifecycle modeling and occlusion handling.

Unsupervised video object-centric learning aims to decompose dynamic scenes into temporally persistent entity representations. Existing recurrent video slot-attention methods propagate a fixed set of slots across frames, but typically assume unconditional slot propagation: every slot is updated and decoded at every frame, regardless of whether its corresponding object is visible. We show that this design violates a basic lifecycle requirement for persistent slots: when an object is absent or fully occluded, its slot should preserve its previous state and avoid explaining unrelated visible content. Instead, unconditional propagation creates two failure pathways: update-induced state drift, where current-frame evidence overwrites the absent object's representation, and decoder-induced reconstruction interference, where the inactive slot remains coupled to reconstruction through decoder attention. We propose Temporal Slot Activation (TSA), a mechanism that learns a per-slot, per-frame activation score $\alpha_{k,t} \in (0, 1)$ without visibility supervision. TSA uses this activation as a shared latent control variable for slot lifecycle modeling. When a slot is inactive, TSA anchors its state to the previous slot via activation-gated updating and suppresses its decoder participation through an activation-dependent additive bias on attention logits before softmax normalization. This jointly reduces state drift and reconstruction-driven interference. To improve decisions under partial occlusion and gradual reappearance, TSA further conditions activation prediction on a per-slot temporal memory produced by a Temporal Context Encoder. We evaluate TSA on MOVi-C/E, YT-VIS, and OVIS benchmarks using both standard and tracking-based metrics (FG-ARI, mBO, IDF1, HOTA). TSA consistently improves object decomposition and temporal identity preservation, with large gains on long, heavily occluded videos.

13 From Chatbot to Digital Colleague: The Paradigm Shift Toward Persistent Autonomous AI Yongheng Zhang, Ziang Liu, Jiaxuan Zhu, Shuai Wang, Xiangqi Chen, Haojing Huang, Jiayi Kuang, Siyu Chen, Ao Shen, Hao Wu, Qiufeng Wang, Qian-Wen Zhang, Junnan Dong, Wenhao Jiang, Ying Shen, Hai-Tao Zheng, Yinghui Li, Di Yin, Xing Sun, Philip S. Yu

Benchmark & Evaluation Embodied Interaction LLM Interpretability

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Paper 13 / arXiv:2606.14502 Open arXiv

Relevance 3 Novelty 3

Why selected: Matches criterion 3 only broadly: a conceptual survey/framework on persistent autonomous AI and workspace-style agents, but not a new benchmark or embodied method.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are undergoing a fundamental transformation from conversational generators into integrated AI systems capable of reasoning, action, memory, and self-improvement. We conceptualize this transition as a shift from Chatbot to Digital Colleague: from conversational answers to persistent work. We organize this transition along two tightly coupled dimensions. First, at the cognitive core level, LLMs are advancing from Chatbot-era "fast thinking" systems driven by next-token prediction toward Thinking LLMs that leverage inference-time computation, Chain-of-Thought reasoning, reflection, process supervision, and reinforcement learning to support more deliberate and reliable cognition. Second, at the tool-augmented task execution level, LLMs are progressing from tool-calling Agents that invoke external resources in an ad hoc manner toward OpenClaw-style workstation systems (OpenClaw) equipped with persistent Workspaces, skills, verification loops, and governance. The "Workspace + Skill" paradigm makes episodic tool use colleague-like via state persistence, reusable procedures, task closure, and experience reuse. We examine data construction shifts from instruction-response pairs to State-Action-Observation trajectories and evaluation from static benchmarks to sandboxed, auditable, self-evolving AI ecosystems.

Vision-Language Reasoning

2 Instruct-Particulate: Scaling Feed-Forward 3D Object Articulation with Kinematic Control Ruining Li, Yuxin Yao, Matt Zhou, Chuanxia Zheng, Christian Rupprecht, Joan Lasenby, Shangzhe Wu, Andrea Vedaldi

Vision-Language Reasoning Benchmark & Evaluation Embodied Interaction

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Paper 2 / arXiv:2606.14699 Open arXiv

Relevance 6 Novelty 6

Why selected: Matches criterion 3 very closely: new embodied/3D reconstruction method for articulated objects, using VLM-derived kinematic specifications.

Reconstructing articulated 3D objects is important for animation, gaming, and robotic simulations. Recent neural networks can estimate the articulated structure of 3D objects, but their generalization remains limited by the scarcity of annotated data for this task. To address this gap, we introduce Instruct-Particulate, a model that takes a 3D mesh together with a target kinematic specification, including part descriptions, connectivity, joint types, and optional point prompts, and predicts the corresponding kinematic part segmentation and joint motion parameters. The kinematic specification disambiguates the task and allows the model to target annotations of different granularity, thereby making it possible to use more abundant heterogeneous training data. At test time, the kinematic specification can be obtained automatically from large-scale vision-language models, so the model can be applied to any input mesh. To train our model at scale, we construct a heterogeneous dataset of more than 150,000 articulated 3D objects, extending existing publicly available collections with data obtained by partially labelling other 3D models (monolithic or already decomposed into parts) with kinematic labels by means of vision-language models. Experiments show that our model generalizes better across categories and to AI-generated meshes, enabling articulated asset reconstruction from real-world images via image-to-3D models.

11 HiLo-Token: Input-Adaptive High-Low Frequency Token Compression for Efficient Image Editing Haoran You, Yotam Nitzan, Lingzhi Zhang, Yifan Gong, Mang-Tik Chiu, Connelly Barnes, Yan Kang, Yuqian Zhou, Eli Shechtman, Sohrab Amirghodsi

Vision-Language Reasoning Benchmark & Evaluation Generative Modeling

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Paper 11 / arXiv:2606.13898 Open arXiv

Relevance 5 Novelty 4

Why selected: Matches criterion 4: this is a vision foundation model–based application for efficient image editing, focused on token compression for diffusion transformers.

Creative image editing tools, such as Photoshop's Remove or Generative Fill buttons, are central to everyday customer use and account for a major share of traffic in Photoshop and Lightroom. However, current generative AI models face significant latency challenges, which become even more pronounced when transitioning from convolution-based U-Nets to Diffusion Transformers (DiTs). In our evaluation on hundreds of representative image editing samples spanning a wide range of mask ratios, the DiT module alone accounts for an average of 73% of the total model latency, even after being distilled from 50 timesteps down to 8 timesteps. To tackle this challenge, we propose $\textbf{HiLo-Token}$, an input-adaptive token compression framework that allocates more token budget to high-frequency, rich-context regions while assigning fewer tokens to low-frequency areas. Specifically, for the editing region specified by the user mask, we retain all tokens within a dilated mask to preserve strong locality and contextual relevance. Outside the editing region, we introduce a simple yet effective high-frequency token selection strategy based on spatial frequency to capture important local details, while using tokens from a 16x downsampled image to represent low-frequency components and preserve the blurry but global structure. Extensive experiments on production-level evaluation data validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving 3.13x, 2.59x, and 1.67x DiT speedups on A100-80GB for image editing tasks across small, medium, and large mask ratio categories with average ratios of 6.38%, 15.92%, and 35.36%, respectively, without any regression in generation quality.

12 A Robust Point Cloud Analysis Framework Inspired By Primary Visual Cortex Jisheng Dang, Dengyue Pan, Delin Deng, Yifan Zhang, Bimei Wang, Hong Peng, Bin Hu, Qi Tian, Tat-Seng Chua

Vision-Language Reasoning Medical AI Retrieval & Grounding

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Paper 12 / arXiv:2606.14292 Open arXiv

Relevance 4 Novelty 4

Why selected: Matches criterion 4: a vision-foundation-model-adjacent method for point cloud analysis, with biologically inspired robustness improvements.

Despite significant advancements in point cloud analysis, reducing energy consumption and improving robustness remain understudied, largely due to the inherent limitations of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). To address this issue, we draw inspiration from the primary visual cortex and propose a Dendritic-Connected Continuous-Coupled Neural Network (DC-CCNN), a novel Brain-Inspired Neural Network (BINN) architecture for point cloud analysis. By combining discrete and continuous encoding, our design replaces traditional Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs) with more efficient and robust BINNs. Building upon this framework, we further propose an extended model, DC-CCNN++, to improve robustness under complex corruption conditions. Specifically, we introduce a Neuro-Inspired Robust Modulation-and-Readout Module (NRMR) to enhance feature stability and decision robustness through global-context gain modulation and dual-code evidence integration. We also design a Cortically Inspired Progressive Variability Training (CPVT) strategy, which progressively exposes the model to structured environmental variability while preserving stable clean-sample anchors during training. Experimental results show that DC-CCNN++ improves the performance of brain-inspired networks on point cloud analysis while maintaining performance comparable to state-of-the-art methods. Compared with the original DC-CCNN, it achieves stronger results on both classification and part segmentation, and exhibits enhanced robustness against sparsity, occlusion, Gaussian noise, salt-and-pepper noise, and spatial transformations. With its efficiency, robustness, and biologically grounded design, DC-CCNN++ provides a promising alternative to traditional deep learning methods for point cloud analysis. Code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/DC-CCNNpp-44E3.

Multimodal LLM

5 OmniVideo-100K: A Dataset for Audio-Visual Reasoning through Structured Scripts and Evidence Chains Xinyue Cai, Chaoyou Fu, Yi-Fan Zhang, Ran He, Caifeng Shan

Multimodal LLM Benchmark & Evaluation Generative Modeling LLM Interpretability

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Paper 5 / arXiv:2606.14702 Open arXiv

Relevance 6 Novelty 5

Why selected: Matches criterion 2 very closely: it introduces a new audio-visual reasoning dataset and instruction-tuning pipeline for VLLM/MLLM-style models, with structured scripts and evidence chains.

Current automated pipelines for audio-visual Question Answering (QA) generally adopt a ``video-caption-QA'' paradigm. However, these methods typically segment videos into short clips and generate separate descriptions for audio and visual modalities. This decoupled processing severs inherent associations between sounds and their visual sources, while independent clip processing often causes inconsistent descriptions of the same entity across segments. Furthermore, coupling long-text comprehension and QA synthesis into a single step often restricts models to localized events, yielding questions lacking long-term temporal connections and deep cross-modal reasoning. To address these issues, we propose an automated data engine featuring two mechanisms: (1) \textbf{Entity-Anchored Video Scripting} transforms videos into structured scripts, comprising summaries, main entity lists, and segment-wise audio-visual descriptions. The entity list serves as a global prior to ensure cross-segment referential consistency and reconstruct audio-visual associations. (2) \textbf{Clue-Guided QA Generation} prompts models to first mine cross-segment, multimodal clues from the script, and subsequently generate QA pairs based on these high-value clues. Leveraging this pipeline, we construct the instruction-tuning dataset \textbf{OmniVideo-100K} and a human-verified test set, \textbf{OmniVideo-Test}. Fine-tuning VITA-1.5, Qwen2.5-Omni-7B and Qwen3-Omni-30B on OmniVideo-100K yields performance gains of up to 20.59% on OmniVideo-Test, demonstrating strong generalization (up to 12.64% improvements) across established benchmarks like Daily-Omni and JointAVBench.

10 IndustryBench-MIPU: Benchmarking Multi-Image Attribute Value Extraction for Industrial Products Haonan Qi, Jin Cao, Yongqi Zhang, Xintong Wang, Weidong Tang, Bin Chen, Chengfu Huo, Haojun Pan, Hengyu You, Jing Li, Yingde Wang, Liang Ding

Multimodal LLM Benchmark & Evaluation Safety & Backdoors Retrieval & Grounding

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Paper 10 / arXiv:2606.14383 Open arXiv

Relevance 6 Novelty 4

Why selected: Matches criterion 2 and 3 closely: it builds a new benchmark for multi-image industrial product understanding and evaluates MLLMs on cross-image attribute extraction.

Industrial products such as valves and circuit breakers are defined by dense technical specifications that govern procurement, compatibility, and safety across supply chains. These specifications are scattered across multiple heterogeneous product images, including specification tables, nameplates, and technical drawings, yet whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can reliably recover them remains underexplored. To fill this gap, we introduce IndustryBench-MIPU, the first large-scale benchmark for multi-image industrial product understanding, built around structured attribute extraction -- recovering property-value pairs from product images. This task jointly probes text recognition on specification tables and nameplates, visual reasoning over technical drawings, domain knowledge to decode industrial terminology, and cross-image evidence integration to assemble scattered specifications. Concretely, the benchmark comprises 4,559 products across 27,652 images with 103,703 annotations spanning 18 industrial categories, constructed through multi-model consensus and three-tier quality assurance. Evaluating nine MLLMs under both single-image and product-level multi-image settings reveals a stark completeness gap: models achieve high precision (86--94%) but the best recovers only 49.9% of product-level attributes; moving from single-image to multi-image extraction costs 15--34 percentage points of recall. Multi-image completeness, not single-image accuracy, is the core bottleneck. Dataset and code are publicly available.

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Average score 10.3