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Video-Text Retrieval (VTR) is a crucial multi-modal task in an era of massive video-text data on the Internet. A plethora of work characterized by using a two-stream Vision-Language model architecture that learns a joint representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Gengyuan Zhang , Jisen Ren , Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Understanding causality in event sequences where outcome labels such as diseases or system failures arise from preceding events like symptoms or error codes is critical. Yet remains an unsolved challenge across domains like healthcare or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Hugo Math , Rainer Lienhart

Understanding the relation of events plays an important role in different domains, such as identifying the reasons for users' certain actions from application logs as well as explaining sports players' behaviors according to historical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Xiao Xie , Moqi He , Yingcai Wu

Explaining underlying causes or effects about events is a challenging but valuable task. We define a novel problem of generating explanations of a time series event by (1) searching cause and effect relationships of the time series with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Dongyeop Kang , Varun Gangal , Ang Lu , Zheng Chen , Eduard Hovy

Event detection and text reasoning have become critical applications across various domains. While LLMs have recently demonstrated impressive progress in reasoning abilities, they often struggle with event detection, particularly due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mazal Bethany , Emet Bethany , Brandon Wherry , Cho-Yu Chiang , Nishant Vishwamitra , Anthony Rios , Peyman Najafirad

Existing visual question reasoning methods usually fail to explicitly discover the inherent causal mechanism and ignore jointly modeling cross-modal event temporality and causality. In this paper, we propose a visual question reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yang Liu , Ying Tan , Jingzhou Luo , Weixing Chen

Recently, video summarization has been proposed as a method to help video exploration. However, traditional video summarization models only generate a fixed video summary which is usually independent of user-specific needs and hence limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jia-Hong Huang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Andrew Brown , Marcel Worring

Causal discovery is at the core of human cognition. It enables us to reason about the environment and make counterfactual predictions about unseen scenarios that can vastly differ from our previous experiences. We consider the task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yunzhu Li , Antonio Torralba , Animashree Anandkumar , Dieter Fox , Animesh Garg

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has emerged as a vital tool to evaluate agents' ability to understand human daily behaviors. Despite the recent success of large vision language models in many multi-modal tasks, complex situation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Ziyi Bai , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

Consumer Event-Cause Extraction, the task aimed at extracting the potential causes behind certain events in the text, has gained much attention in recent years due to its wide applications. The ICDM 2020 conference sets up an evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Congqing He , Jie Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Huan Liu , Yukun Huang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have improved reasoning in text and image domains, yet achieving robust video reasoning remains a significant challenge. Existing video benchmarks mainly assess shallow understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xuchen Li , Xuzhao Li , Shiyu Hu , Kaiqi Huang , Wentao Zhang

Event Causality Identification (ECI) focuses on extracting causal relations between events in texts. Existing methods for ECI primarily rely on causal features and external knowledge. However, these approaches fall short in two dimensions:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Haoran Li , Qiang Gao , Hongmei Wu , Li Huang

Next-token prediction serves as the foundational learning task enabling reasoning in LLMs. But what should the learning task be when aiming to equip MLLMs with temporal reasoning capabilities over video inputs? Existing tasks such as video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Haonan Wang , Hongfu Liu , Xiangyan Liu , Chao Du , Kenji Kawaguchi , Ye Wang , Tianyu Pang

Cognitive science and symbolic AI research suggest that event causality provides vital information for story understanding. However, machine learning systems for story understanding rarely employ event causality, partially due to the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yidan Sun , Qin Chao , Boyang Li

We study the problem of learning Granger causality between event types from asynchronous, interdependent, multi-type event sequences. Existing work suffers from either limited model flexibility or poor model explainability and thus fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Wei Zhang , Thomas Kobber Panum , Somesh Jha , Prasad Chalasani , David Page

Despite advances in the application of MLLMs for various video tasks, video event prediction (VEP) remains relatively underexplored. VEP requires the model to perform fine-grained temporal modeling of videos and establish logical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qile Su , Jing Tang , Rui Chen , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu

Causal thinking enables humans to understand not just what is seen, but why it happens. To replicate this capability in modern AI systems, we introduce the task of visual causal discovery. It requires models to infer cause-and-effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yize Zhang , Meiqi Chen , Sirui Chen , Bo Peng , Yanxi Zhang , Tianyu Li , Chaochao Lu

Multi-modal Event Reasoning (MMER) endeavors to endow machines with the ability to comprehend intricate event relations across diverse data modalities. MMER is fundamental and underlies a wide broad of applications. Despite extensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zhengwei Tao , Zhi Jin , Junqiang Huang , Xiancai Chen , Xiaoying Bai , Haiyan Zhao , Yifan Zhang , Chongyang Tao

While significant progress has been made in Video Question Answering and cross-modal understanding, causal reasoning about how visual dynamics drive musical structure in music videos remains under-explored. We introduce KARMA-MV, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Archishman Ghosh , Abhinaba Roy , Dorien Herremans

The task of Video Question Answering (VideoQA) consists in answering natural language questions about a video and serves as a proxy to evaluate the performance of a model in scene sequence understanding. Most methods designed for VideoQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Theophile Sautory , Nuri Cingillioglu , Alessandra Russo