# TempCloze: Can Video-LLMs Identify the Missing Middle? > Source: > Published: 2026-09-11 07:00:05+00:00 Temporal reasoning benchmarks for Video-LLMs are often mediated by language, leaving room for linguistic shortcuts from option wording, answer correlations, or language priors. To reduce such shortcuts, we introduce TempCloze, a video cloze benchmark for evaluating visual temporal reasoning in Video