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Text Image Machine Translation (TIMT)-the task of translating textual content embedded in images-is critical for applications in accessibility, cross-lingual information access, and real-world document understanding. However, TIMT remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhaopeng Feng , Yupu Liang , Shaosheng Cao , Jiayuan Su , Jiahan Ren , Zhe Xu , Yao Hu , Wenxuan Huang , Jian Wu , Zuozhu Liu

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is intended to improve their reasoning capabilities, yet we uncover a counterintuitive effect: models often forget how to solve problems they previously answered correctly during training. We term…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yuetai Li , Zhangchen Xu , Fengqing Jiang , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Luyao Niu , Bill Yuchen Lin , Xiang Yue , Radha Poovendran

This paper presents VideoLoom, a unified Video Large Language Model (Video LLM) for joint spatial-temporal understanding. To facilitate the development of fine-grained spatial and temporal localization capabilities, we curate LoomData-8.7k,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiapeng Shi , Junke Wang , Zuyao You , Bo He , Zuxuan Wu

Recent Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, yet remain challenged by video understanding tasks that require consistent temporal ordering and causal coherence. Many parameter-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengjian Kang , Qi Chen , Rui Liu , Kangtong Mo , Xingyu Zhang , Xiaoyu Deng , Ye Zhang

Video temporal grounding (VTG), which localizes the start and end times of a queried event in an untrimmed video, is a key test of whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) understand not only what happens but also when it happens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dazhao Du , Liao Duan , Jian Liu , Tao Han , Yujia Zhang , Eric Liu , Xi Chen , Song Guo

Video Large Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on various vision-language tasks, yet their practical use is limited by the massive number of visual tokens produced from raw video frames, which quickly exhausts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Guangyu Sun , Archit Singhal , Burak Uzkent , Mubarak Shah , Chen Chen , Garin Kessler

Video-Text Pre-training (VTP) aims to learn transferable representations for various downstream tasks from large-scale web videos. To date, almost all existing VTP methods are limited to retrieval-based downstream tasks, e.g., video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Meng Cao , Tianyu Yang , Junwu Weng , Can Zhang , Jue Wang , Yuexian Zou

Despite impressive high-level video comprehension, multimodal language models struggle with spatial reasoning across time and space. While current spatial training approaches rely on real-world video data, obtaining diverse footage with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ellis Brown , Arijit Ray , Ranjay Krishna , Ross Girshick , Rob Fergus , Saining Xie

In this paper, built upon TAPTRv2, we present TAPTRv3. TAPTRv2 is a simple yet effective DETR-like point tracking framework that works fine in regular videos but tends to fail in long videos. TAPTRv3 improves TAPTRv2 by addressing its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jinyuan Qu , Hongyang Li , Shilong Liu , Tianhe Ren , Zhaoyang Zeng , Lei Zhang

This paper presents VideoStreaming, an advanced vision-language large model (VLLM) for video understanding, that capably understands arbitrary-length video with a constant number of video tokens streamingly encoded and adaptively selected.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Rui Qian , Xiaoyi Dong , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Shuangrui Ding , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

In recent years, the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced, extending their capabilities to multimodal tasks through Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, video understanding remains a…

This paper describes our solution for the video recognition task of the Google Cloud and YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge that ranked the 3rd place. Because the challenge provides pre-extracted visual and audio features instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Fu Li , Chuang Gan , Xiao Liu , Yunlong Bian , Xiang Long , Yandong Li , Zhichao Li , Jie Zhou , Shilei Wen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for generating coherent text, understanding context, and performing reasoning tasks. However, they struggle with temporal reasoning, which requires processing time-related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Adrián Bazaga , Rexhina Blloshmi , Bill Byrne , Adrià de Gispert

This paper introduces the TempVS benchmark, which focuses on temporal grounding and reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in image sequences. TempVS consists of three main tests (i.e., event relation inference,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yingjin Song , Yupei Du , Denis Paperno , Albert Gatt

Large Language Models (LLMs) have allowed recent LLM-based approaches to achieve excellent performance on long-video understanding benchmarks. We investigate how extensive world knowledge and strong reasoning skills of underlying LLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Xiang Li , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Michael S. Ryoo

How do video understanding models acquire their answers? Although current Vision Language Models (VLMs) reason over complex scenes with diverse objects, action performances, and scene dynamics, understanding and controlling their internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Alexandros Stergiou

Recently, Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) integrated with vision encoders have shown promising performance in vision understanding. The key of VLLMs is to encode visual content into sequences of visual tokens, enabling VLLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhuqiang Lu , Zhenfei Yin , Mengwei He , Zhihui Wang , Zicheng Liu , Zhiyong Wang , Kun Hu

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved significant success by adopting the paradigm of large-scale pre-training followed by supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, existing approaches struggle with temporal reasoning due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shicheng Li , Lei Li , Kun Ouyang , Shuhuai Ren , Yuanxin Liu , Yuanxing Zhang , Fuzheng Zhang , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu , Xu Sun

Video large language models (Video-LLMs) have made strong progress in general video understanding, but their ability to maintain temporal object consistency remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks often emphasize event recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Junzhe Chen , Siyuan Meng , Yuxi Chen , Man Zhao , Wenyao Gui , Xiaojie Guo

This paper explores whether enhancing temporal reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) can improve the quality of timeline summarisation, the task of summarising long texts containing sequences of events, such as social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jiayu Song , Mahmud Elahi Akhter , Dana Atzil Slonim , Maria Liakata