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HowTo100M
HowTo100M is a large-scale dataset of narrated videos with an emphasis on instructional videos where content creators teach complex tasks with an explicit intention of explaining the visual content on screen. HowTo100M features a total of:
- 136M video clips with captions sourced from 1.2M Youtube videos (15 years of video)
- 23k activities from domains such as cooking, hand crafting, personal care, gardening or fitness
Each video is associated with a narration available as subtitles automatically downloaded from Youtube.
Source: HowTo100M
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 1 leaderboard 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) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Video Question Answering | Howto100M-QA | TimeSformer Accuracy 62.1 | Is Space-Time Attention All You Need for Video Understanding? | open-mmlab/mmaction2 +15 | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
1 shown of 1 paper 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 286. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is Space-Time Attention All You Need for Video Understanding? | 16 | 1 | 9 Feb 2021 | ran 35 of 43 samples (8 unverified; 14 pointer-only for licence) |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
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Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
- Howto100M-QA
- HowTo100M
2 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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