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HowTo100M

Introduced by Antoine Miech et al. in HowTo100M: Learning a Text-Video Embedding by Watching Hundred Million Narrated Video Clips7 Jun 2019 archive 2025-07-28

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

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
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.

DateSamples 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

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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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