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Ultra long video understanding remains an open challenge, as existing vision language models (VLMs) falter on such content due to limited context length and inefficient long term memory retention. To address this, recent works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Hongbo Jin , Qingyuan Wang , Wenhao Zhang , Yang Liu , Sijie Cheng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased impressive capabilities in text comprehension and generation, prompting research efforts towards video LLMs to facilitate human-AI interaction at the video level. However, how to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ruyang Liu , Chen Li , Haoran Tang , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Ge Li

Long-context large language models (LC LLMs) promise to increase reliability of LLMs in real-world tasks requiring processing and understanding of long input documents. However, this ability of LC LLMs to reliably utilize their growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Lavanya Gupta , Saket Sharma , Yiyun Zhao

The evaluation of Long Video Understanding (LVU) performance poses an important but challenging research problem. Despite previous efforts, the existing video understanding benchmarks are severely constrained by several issues, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Junjie Zhou , Yan Shu , Bo Zhao , Boya Wu , Zhengyang Liang , Shitao Xiao , Minghao Qin , Xi Yang , Yongping Xiong , Bo Zhang , Tiejun Huang , Zheng Liu

The rapid advancement of large vision language models (LVLMs) has led to a significant expansion of their context windows. However, an extended context window does not guarantee the effective utilization of the context, posing a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Keyan Zhou , Zecheng Tang , Lingfeng Ming , Guanghao Zhou , Qiguang Chen , Dan Qiao , Zheming Yang , Libo Qin , Minghui Qiu , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

Long video understanding is a significant and ongoing challenge in the intersection of multimedia and artificial intelligence. Employing large language models (LLMs) for comprehending video becomes an emerging and promising method. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yunxin Li , Xinyu Chen , Baotain Hu , Min Zhang

Video-based multimodal large language models (Video-LLMs) possess significant potential for video understanding tasks. However, most Video-LLMs treat videos as a sequential set of individual frames, which results in insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma

When applied to processing long text, Large Language Models (LLMs) are limited by their context window. Existing efforts to address this limitation involve training specialized architectures, and cannot be easily applied to off-the-shelf…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Nir Ratner , Yoav Levine , Yonatan Belinkov , Ori Ram , Inbal Magar , Omri Abend , Ehud Karpas , Amnon Shashua , Kevin Leyton-Brown , Yoav Shoham

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in multimodal understanding and generation tasks. However, their application to long video understanding remains hindered by the quadratic complexity of standard attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Letian Kang , Shixian Luo , Yiqiang Li , Yuxin Yin , Shenxuan Zhou , Xiaoyang Yu , Jin Yang , Yong Wu

The rapid extension of context windows in large vision-language models has given rise to long-context vision-language models (LCVLMs), which are capable of handling hundreds of images with interleaved text tokens in a single forward pass.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhaowei Wang , Wenhao Yu , Xiyu Ren , Jipeng Zhang , Yu Zhao , Rohit Saxena , Liang Cheng , Ginny Wong , Simon See , Pasquale Minervini , Yangqiu Song , Mark Steedman

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have proven effective on various tasks. They typically encode visual inputs into Original Model sequences of tokens, which are then concatenated with textual tokens and jointly processed by the language model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hao Zhang , Mengsi Lyu , Bo Huang , Yulong Ao , Yonghua Lin

Long Video Question-Answering (LVQA) presents a significant challenge for Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to immense context and overloaded information, which could also lead to prohibitive memory consumption. While existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Henghui Du , Chunjie Zhang , Xi Chen , Chang Zhou , Di Hu

Large Language Models (LLMs) often experience performance degradation during long-running interactions due to increasing context length, memory saturation, and computational overhead. This paper presents an adaptive context compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Payal Fofadiya , Sunil Tiwari

Long video understanding poses a significant challenge for current Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Notably, the MLLMs are constrained by their limited context lengths and the substantial costs while processing long videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yan Shu , Zheng Liu , Peitian Zhang , Minghao Qin , Junjie Zhou , Zhengyang Liang , Tiejun Huang , Bo Zhao

The long-context capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have been a hot topic in recent years. To evaluate the performance of LLMs in different scenarios, various assessment benchmarks have emerged. However, as most of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shawn Gavin , Tuney Zheng , Jiaheng Liu , Quehry Que , Noah Wang , Jian Yang , Chenchen Zhang , Wenhao Huang , Ge Zhang

Video understanding represents the most challenging frontier in computer vision, requiring models to reason about complex spatiotemporal relationships, long-term dependencies, and multimodal evidence. The recent emergence of Video-Large…

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel in cross-model tasks but experience performance declines in long-context reasoning due to overreliance on textual information and reduced visual dependency. In this study, we empirically analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yucheng Zhou , Zhi Rao , Jun Wan , Jianbing Shen

Amidst the advancements in image-based Large Vision-Language Models (image-LVLM), the transition to video-based models (video-LVLM) is hindered by the limited availability of quality video data. This paper addresses the challenge by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Shimin Chen , Yitian Yuan , Shaoxiang Chen , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made remarkable strides, largely driven by their ability to process increasingly long and complex contexts, such as high-resolution images, extended video sequences, and lengthy audio input.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kele Shao , Keda Tao , Kejia Zhang , Sicheng Feng , Mu Cai , Yuzhang Shang , Haoxuan You , Can Qin , Yang Sui , Huan Wang

Enabling long-context understanding remains a key challenge in scaling existing sequence models -- a crucial component in developing generally intelligent models that can process and operate over long temporal horizons that potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Hao Liu , Wilson Yan , Matei Zaharia , Pieter Abbeel