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How2

Introduced by Ramon Sanabria et al. in How2: A Large-scale Dataset for Multimodal Language Understanding1 Jan 2018 archive 2025-07-28

The How2 dataset contains 13,500 videos, or 300 hours of speech, and is split into 185,187 training, 2022 development (dev), and 2361 test utterances. It has subtitles in English and crowdsourced Portuguese translations.

Source: exploring multiview correlations in open-domain videos

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Text Summarization How2 Ground-truth transcript + Action with Hierarchical Attn Content F1 48.9 Multimodal Abstractive Summarization for How2 Videos — 2 Compare
Multimodal Abstractive Text Summarization How2 300h MAST ROUGE-L 43.23 MAST: Multimodal Abstractive Summarization with Trimodal... amankhullar/mast 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

3 shown of 3 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 84. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
MAST: Multimodal Abstractive Summarization with Trimodal Hierarchical Attention 1 1 15 Oct 2020 not harvested
Abstractive Summarization of Spoken andWritten Instructions with BERT 2 1 21 Aug 2020 not harvested
Multimodal Abstractive Summarization for How2 Videos 0 1 19 Jun 2019 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

No loader listed in the archive.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

CC BY-SA 4.0

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • How2
  • How2 300h

2 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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