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Large audio language models are increasingly used for complex audio understanding tasks, but they struggle with temporal tasks that require precise temporal grounding, such as word alignment and speaker diarization. The standard approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Joesph An , Phillip Keung , Jiaqi Wang , Orevaoghene Ahia , Noah A. Smith

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in natural language processing due to their strong generalization and sequence modeling capabilities. However, their direct application to time series…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yanru Sun , Emadeldeen Eldele , Zongxia Xie , Yucheng Wang , Wenzhe Niu , Qinghua Hu , Chee Keong Kwoh , Min Wu

Understanding and distinguishing temporal patterns in time series data is essential for scientific discovery and decision-making. For example, in biomedical research, uncovering meaningful patterns in physiological signals can improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yu-Chia Huang , Juntong Chen , Dongyu Liu , Kwan-Liu Ma

Virtual Personal Assistants like Siri have great potential but such developments hit the fundamental problem of how to make computational devices that understand human speech. Natural language understanding is one of the more disappointing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Peter Wallis

Long-horizon conversational agents have to manage ever-growing interaction histories that quickly exceed the finite context windows of large language models (LLMs). Existing memory frameworks provide limited support for temporally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Kai Li , Xuanqing Yu , Ziyi Ni , Yi Zeng , Yao Xu , Zheqing Zhang , Xin Li , Jitao Sang , Xiaogang Duan , Xuelei Wang , Chengbao Liu , Jie Tan

Time functions as a fundamental dimension of human cognition, yet the mechanisms by which Large Language Models (LLMs) encode chronological progression remain opaque. We demonstrate that temporal information in their latent space is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jingmin An , Wei Liu , Qian Wang , Fang Fang

Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) forecasting benchmarks challenge models to predict future facts using knowledge of past facts. In this paper, we apply large language models (LLMs) to these benchmarks using in-context learning (ICL). We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Dong-Ho Lee , Kian Ahrabian , Woojeong Jin , Fred Morstatter , Jay Pujara

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a formal language over continuous-time signals (such as trajectories of a multi-agent system) that allows for the specification of complex spatial and temporal system requirements (such as staying sufficiently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Joris Verhagen , Lars Lindemann , Jana Tumova

The extraction and understanding of temporal events and their relations are major challenges in natural language processing. Processing text on a sentence-by-sentence or expression-by-expression basis often fails, in part due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Catherine Kerr , Terri Hoare , Paula Carroll , Jakub Marecek

Temporal modeling is key for action recognition in videos. It normally considers both short-range motions and long-range aggregations. In this paper, we propose a Temporal Excitation and Aggregation (TEA) block, including a motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Yan Li , Bin Ji , Xintian Shi , Jianguo Zhang , Bin Kang , Limin Wang

Understanding temporal relationships and accurately reconstructing the event timeline is important for case law analysis, compliance monitoring, and legal summarization. However, existing benchmarks lack specialized language evaluation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Claire Barale , Leslie Barrett , Vikram Sunil Bajaj , Michael Rovatsos

Token-based time series large language models (TS-LLMs) have emerged as a promising direction for time series analysis and reasoning. However, prior studies largely overlook the inherent continuity and ordinality of time series tokens,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Musheng Li , Ziying Zhang , Cheng jin , Yuantao Gu

Accurate analysis of industrial time-series big data is critical for the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) of industrial equipment. While recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in time-series analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haiteng Wang , Yikang Li , Yunfei Zhu , Jingheng Yan , Lei Ren , Laurence T. Yang

Generating event graphs from long documents is challenging due to the inherent complexity of multiple tasks involved such as detecting events, identifying their relationships, and reconciling unstructured input with structured graphs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xingwei Tan , Yuxiang Zhou , Gabriele Pergola , Yulan He

Event schemas encode knowledge of stereotypical structures of events and their connections. As events unfold, schemas are crucial to act as a scaffolding. Previous work on event schema induction focuses either on atomic events or linear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Manling Li , Sha Li , Zhenhailong Wang , Lifu Huang , Kyunghyun Cho , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han , Clare Voss

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) increasingly depends on fine grained, evidence grounded annotations, yet inspection and label construction are hard to scale when cues are dynamic and misaligned across modalities. We present an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zheyuan Kuang , Weiwei Jiang , Nicholas Koemel , Matthew Ahmadi , Emmanuel Stamatakis , Benjamin Tag , Anusha Withana , Zhanna Sarsenbayeva

Video language models (VideoLMs) have made significant progress in multimodal understanding. However, temporal understanding, which involves identifying event order, duration, and relationships across time, still remains a core challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yumeng Shi , Quanyu Long , Yin Wu , Wenya Wang

Multimodal time series forecasting has garnered significant attention for its potential to provide more accurate predictions than traditional single-modality models by leveraging rich information inherent in other modalities. However, due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Jiafeng Lin , Yuxuan Wang , Huakun Luo , Zhongyi Pei , Jianmin Wang

In temporal action segmentation, Timestamp supervision requires only a handful of labelled frames per video sequence. For unlabelled frames, previous works rely on assigning hard labels, and performance rapidly collapses under subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Rahul Rahaman , Dipika Singhania , Alexandre Thiery , Angela Yao

We propose TRACIE, a novel temporal reasoning dataset that evaluates the degree to which systems understand implicit events -- events that are not mentioned explicitly in natural language text but can be inferred from it. This introduces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ben Zhou , Kyle Richardson , Qiang Ning , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Dan Roth