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AVGen-Bench: A Task-Driven Benchmark for Multi-Granular Evaluation of Text-to-Audio-Video Generation

Ziwei Zhou, Zeyuan Lai, Rui Wang, Yifan Yang, Zhen Xing, Yuqing Yang, Qi Dai, Lili Qiu, Chong Luo

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Published 2026-04-09 · First seen 2026-04-10

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Text-to-Audio-Video (T2AV) generation is rapidly becoming a core interface for media creation, yet its evaluation remains fragmented. Existing benchmarks largely assess audio and video in isolation or rely on coarse embedding similarity, failing to capture the fine-grained joint correctness required by realistic prompts. We introduce AVGen-Bench, a task-driven benchmark for T2AV generation featuring high-quality prompts across 11 real-world categories. To support comprehensive assessment, we propose a multi-granular evaluation framework that combines lightweight specialist models with Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), enabling evaluation from perceptual quality to fine-grained semantic controllability. Our evaluation reveals a pronounced gap between strong audio-visual aesthetics and weak semantic reliability, including persistent failures in text rendering, speech coherence, physical reasoning, and a universal breakdown in musical pitch control. Code and benchmark resources are available at http://aka.ms/avgenbench.

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@article{zhou2026avgen,
  title = {AVGen-Bench: A Task-Driven Benchmark for Multi-Granular Evaluation of Text-to-Audio-Video Generation},
  author = {Ziwei Zhou and Zeyuan Lai and Rui Wang and Yifan Yang and Zhen Xing and Yuqing Yang and Qi Dai and Lili Qiu and Chong Luo},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Text-to-Audio-Video (T2AV) generation is rapidly becoming a core interface for media creation, yet its evaluation remains fragmented. Existing benchmarks largely assess audio and video in isolation or rely on coarse embedding similarity, failing to capture the fine-grained joint correctness required by realistic prompts. We introduce AVGen-Bench, a task-driven benchmark for T2AV generation featuring high-quality prompts across 11 real-world categories. To support comprehensive assessment, we pro},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08540},
  keywords = {cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.CL, Benchmark (surveying), Computer science, Correctness, Embedding, Joint (building)},
  eprint = {2604.08540},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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