Before Words, Beyond Speech: Evaluating Nonverbal Social Reasoning in Early Childhood

arXiv:2611.13213v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Children's earliest years are a period of intense social learning, during which meaning is built through gaze, gesture, and physical contact. Yet, this critical aspect of social interaction remains under-evaluated in multimodal video understanding, as existing benchmarks prioritize the conversation-driven interactions of adults. We address this gap with \bench ($\textbf{N}$aturalistic $\textbf{E}$arly-childhood $\textbf{S}$ocial in$\textbf{T}$eractions), the first child-centric benchmark for nonverbal social reasoning. \bench comprises \totalvi

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