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In this paper, we present ENTER, an interpretable Video Question Answering (VideoQA) system based on event graphs. Event graphs convert videos into graphical representations, where video events form the nodes and event-event relationships…

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

We present DMCD (DataMap Causal Discovery), a two-phase causal discovery framework that integrates LLM-based semantic drafting from variable metadata with statistical validation on observational data. In Phase I, a large language model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Samarth KaPatel , Sofia Nikiforova , Giacinto Paolo Saggese , Paul Smith

The key of sequential recommendation lies in the accurate item correlation modeling. Previous models infer such information based on item co-occurrences, which may fail to capture the real causal relations, and impact the recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Zhenlei Wang , Xu Chen , Rui Zhou , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Ji-Rong Wen

Causal discovery in time-series is a fundamental problem in the machine learning community, enabling causal reasoning and decision-making in complex scenarios. Recently, researchers successfully discover causality by combining neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yuxiao Cheng , Lianglong Li , Tingxiong Xiao , Zongren Li , Qin Zhong , Jinli Suo , Kunlun He

In knowledge-intensive tasks, especially in high-stakes domains like medicine and law, it is critical not only to retrieve relevant information but also to provide causal reasoning and explainability. Large language models (LLMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hang Luo , Jian Zhang , Chujun Li

In real-world video question answering scenarios, videos often provide only localized visual cues, while verifiable answers are distributed across the open web; models therefore need to jointly perform cross-frame clue extraction, iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chengwen Liu , Xiaomin Yu , Zhuoyue Chang , Zhe Huang , Shuo Zhang , Heng Lian , Jisheng Dang , Rui Xu , Sen Hu , Jianheng Hou , Chengwei Qin , Xiaobin Hu , Kunyi Wang , Zhi Yang , Hao Peng , Hong Peng , Ronghao Chen , Huacan Wang

Hawkes processes are a special class of temporal point processes which exhibit a natural notion of causality, as occurrence of events in the past may increase the probability of events in the future. Discovery of the underlying influence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Amirkasra Jalaldoust , Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler , Claudia Plant

Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE) remain the leading cause of mortality globally, as reported in the Global Disease Burden Study 2021. Opportunistic screening leverages data collected from routine health check-ups and multimodal…

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We study causal discovery from a single observed sequence of discrete events generated by a stochastic process, as encountered in vehicle logs, manufacturing systems, or patient trajectories. This regime is particularly challenging due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hugo Math , Rainer Lienhart

Temporal grounding is the task of locating a specific segment from an untrimmed video according to a query sentence. This task has achieved significant momentum in the computer vision community as it enables activity grounding beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Linchao Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

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

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) requires identifying sparse critical moments in long videos and reasoning about their causal relationships to answer semantically complex questions. While recent advances in multimodal learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xinxin Dong , Baoyun Peng , Haokai Ma , Yufei Wang , Zixuan Dong , Fei Hu , Xiaodong Wang

Video grounding is a fundamental problem in multimodal content understanding, aiming to localize specific natural language queries in an untrimmed video. However, current video grounding datasets merely focus on simple events and are either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chaolei Tan , Zihang Lin , Junfu Pu , Zhongang Qi , Wei-Yi Pei , Zhi Qu , Yexin Wang , Ying Shan , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Narrative reasoning relies on the understanding of eventualities in story contexts, which requires a wealth of background world knowledge. To help machines leverage such knowledge, existing solutions can be categorized into two groups. Some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Cheng Jiayang , Lin Qiu , Chunkit Chan , Xin Liu , Yangqiu Song , Zheng Zhang

The plethora of algorithms in the research field of process mining builds on directly-follows relations. Even though various improvements have been made in the last decade, there are serious weaknesses of these relationships. Once events…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Philipp Waibel , Lukas Pfahlsberger , Kate Revoredo , Jan Mendling

Causality knowledge is vital to building robust AI systems. Deep learning models often perform poorly on tasks that require causal reasoning, which is often derived using some form of commonsense knowledge not immediately available in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Aman Chadha , Vinija Jain

Video reasoning requires a fine-grained understanding of the temporal dependencies and event-level relations between objects and events in videos. Current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are prone to severe temporal hallucinations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zixu Cheng , Da Li , Jian Hu , Yuhang Zang , Ziquan Liu , Shaogang Gong , Wei Li

Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims to detect whether there exists a causal relation between two events in a document. Existing studies adopt a kind of identifying after learning paradigm, where events' representations are first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Cheng Liu , Wei Xiang , Bang Wang

In the field of Artificial Intelligence for Information Technology Operations, causal discovery is pivotal for operation and maintenance of graph construction, facilitating downstream industrial tasks such as root cause analysis. Temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Peiwen Li , Xin Wang , Zeyang Zhang , Yuan Meng , Fang Shen , Yue Li , Jialong Wang , Yang Li , Wenweu Zhu