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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.…

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Understanding and reasoning over long videos pose significant challenges for large video language models (LVLMs) due to the difficulty in processing intensive video tokens beyond context window and retaining long-term sequential…

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Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in multi-modal reasoning, but their inference time efficiency remains a significant challenge due to the memory overhead during decoding, especially when the query and…

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Recent progress in multimodal large language models has markedly enhanced the understanding of short videos (typically under one minute), and several evaluation datasets have emerged accordingly. However, these advancements fall short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Weihan Wang , Zehai He , Wenyi Hong , Yean Cheng , Xiaohan Zhang , Ji Qi , Xiaotao Gu , Shiyu Huang , Bin Xu , Yuxiao Dong , Ming Ding , Jie Tang

Video Large Language Models (VLLMs) demonstrate strong video understanding but suffer from inefficiency due to redundant visual tokens. Existing pruning primary targets intra-frame spatial redundancy or prunes inside the LLM with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jinlong Li , Liyuan Jiang , Haonan Zhang , Nicu Sebe

Recent large vision-language models (LVLMs) for video understanding are primarily fine-tuned with various videos scraped from online platforms. Existing datasets, such as ActivityNet, require considerable human labor for structuring and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhende Song , Chenchen Wang , Jiamu Sheng , Chi Zhang , Shengji Tang , Jiayuan Fan , Tao Chen

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive progress in vision-language alignment, yet they remain limited in visual-spatial reasoning. We first identify that this limitation arises from the attention mechanism: visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhaozhi Wang , Tong Zhang , Mingyue Guo , Yaowei Wang , Qixiang Ye

Building on the advances of language models, Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have contributed significant improvements in video understanding. While the current video LMMs utilize advanced Large Language Models (LLMs), they rely on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Muhammad Maaz , Hanoona Rasheed , Salman Khan , Fahad Khan

Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal understanding capabilities, yet the redundant visual tokens incur prohibitive computational overhead and degrade inference efficiency. Prior studies typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Qiankun Ma , Ziyao Zhang , Haofei Wang , Jie Chen , Zhen Song , Hairong Zheng

Long-form video understanding remains challenging for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) due to the inherent tension between computational constraints and the need to capture information distributed across thousands of frames. Existing…

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Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), the task of locating specific video segments based on language queries, is a core challenge in long-form video understanding. While recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown early promise in…

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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…

We introduce methods to quantify how Large Language Models (LLMs) encode and store contextual information, revealing that tokens often seen as minor (e.g., determiners, punctuation) carry surprisingly high context. Notably, removing these…

Recent years have witnessed outstanding advances of large vision-language models (LVLMs). In order to tackle video understanding, most of them depend upon their implicit temporal understanding capacity. As such, they have not deciphered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Thong Nguyen , Zhiyuan Hu , Xu Lin , Cong-Duy Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Luu Anh Tuan

Although large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multi-modal understanding and reasoning, their practical applications are still limited by massive model parameters and high computational costs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ji Ma , Wei Suo , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Recent advancements in video understanding within visual large language models (VLLMs) have led to notable progress. However, the complexity of video data and contextual processing limitations still hinder long-video comprehension. A common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yanan Guo , Wenhui Dong , Jun Song , Shiding Zhu , Xuan Zhang , Hanqing Yang , Yingbo Wang , Yang Du , Xianing Chen , Bo Zheng

This paper addresses the critical and underexplored challenge of long video understanding with low computational budgets. We propose LongVideo-R1, an active, reasoning-equipped multimodal large language model (MLLM) agent designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jihao Qiu , Lingxi Xie , Xinyue Huo , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

Vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual and textual information, enabling a wide range of applications such as image captioning and visual question answering, making them crucial for modern AI systems. However, their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Gaurav Shinde , Anuradha Ravi , Emon Dey , Shadman Sakib , Milind Rampure , Nirmalya Roy

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) achieve strong performance on video understanding tasks but suffer from high inference costs due to the large number of visual tokens. We propose KiToke, a training-free, query-agnostic token…

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