Can Language Models Understand mmWave Data? Benchmarking Large Language Models for mmWave Radar-Based Human Understanding

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Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning and generative capabilities, motivating their use as universal reasoning engines for perception. While modern approaches such as vision-language models (VLMs) have attempted to incorporate reasoning capabilities into visual sensing, the integration of LLMs with the millimeter-wave (mmWave) modality-despite its unique advantages under low light and occlusion-remains largely unexplored. The principal bottlenecks stem from the scarcity of radar language pairs, severe cross-dataset heterogeneity, and the absence of a foundational mmWave encoder. We address this gap through a minimal textualization interface that serializes each mmWave point cloud into concise natural language, allowing off-the-shelf LLMs to operate in a question answering (QA) setting. Building on this, we present mmWave-QA, the first benchmark for language-conditioned mmWave human perception. mmWave-QA aggregates heterogeneous public mmWave datasets and harmonizes them via calibration-aware preprocessing and global taxonomy alignment, while providing natural language QA. Spanning six scenarios and five QA tasks, the benchmark enables standardized evaluation across diverse mmWave hardware and experimental conditions, establishing a foundation for scalable research on mmWave-LLM integration. We further evaluate and analyze LLMs on our mmWave-QA, highlighting their zero-shot reasoning potential for radar perception, as well as their robustness under visual degradation.

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