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Long video understanding is inherently challenging for vision-language models (VLMs) because of the extensive number of frames. With each video frame typically expanding into tens or hundreds of tokens, the limited context length of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zheyu Zhang , Ziqi Pang , Shixing Chen , Xiang Hao , Vimal Bhat , Yu-Xiong Wang

This paper presents FluxMem, a training-free framework for efficient streaming video understanding. FluxMem adaptively compresses redundant visual memory through a hierarchical, two-stage design: (1) a Temporal Adjacency Selection (TAS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yiweng Xie , Bo He , Junke Wang , Xiangyu Zheng , Ziyi Ye , Zuxuan Wu

Language models (LMs) and their extension, vision-language models (VLMs), have achieved remarkable performance across various tasks. However, they still struggle with complex reasoning tasks that require multimodal or multilingual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Wenyi Wu , Zixuan Song , Kun Zhou , Yifei Shao , Zhiting Hu , Biwei Huang

Real-time LLM interactions demand streamed token generations, where text tokens are progressively generated and delivered to users while balancing two objectives: responsiveness (i.e., low time-to-first-token) and steady generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Junyi Chen , Chuheng Du , Renyuan Liu , Shuochao Yao , Dingtian Yan , Jiang Liao , Shengzhong Liu , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen

Large vision-language models (VLMs) typically process hundreds or thousands of visual tokens per image or video frame, incurring quadratic attention cost and substantial redundancy. Existing token reduction methods often ignore the textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Kaitong Cai , Jusheng Zhang , Jing Yang , Yijia Fan , Pengtao Xie , Jian Wang , Keze Wang

Video large language models (VideoLLM) excel at video understanding, but face efficiency challenges due to the quadratic complexity of abundant visual tokens. Our systematic analysis of token compression methods for VideoLLMs reveals two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xuyang Liu , Yiyu Wang , Junpeng Ma , Linfeng Zhang

Recent developments in Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have enabled models to process hour-long videos and exhibit exceptional performance. Nonetheless, the Key-Value (KV) cache expands linearly over time, leading to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zhenyu Ning , Guangda Liu , Qihao Jin , Chengwei Li , Wenchao Ding , Minyi Guo , Jieru Zhao

In this paper, we introduce LightVLM, a simple but effective method that can be seamlessly deployed upon existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to greatly accelerate the inference process in a training-free manner. We divide the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lianyu Hu , Fanhua Shang , Wei Feng , Liang Wan

The advent of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has significantly enhanced Large Language Models (LLMs) to process and interpret diverse data modalities (e.g., image and video). However, as input complexity increases, particularly with long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Shilin Yan , Jiaming Han , Joey Tsai , Hongwei Xue , Rongyao Fang , Lingyi Hong , Ziyu Guo , Ray Zhang

Despite advanced token compression techniques, existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still struggle with hour-long video understanding. In this work, we propose Video-XL-Pro, an efficient method for extremely long video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiangrui Liu , Yan Shu , Zheng Liu , Ao Li , Yang Tian , Bo Zhao

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent in various domains, their ability to process inputs of any length and maintain a degree of memory becomes essential. However, the one-off input of overly long texts is limited,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yao Yao , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are distinguished by their multimodal comprehensive ability and widely used in many real-world applications including GPT-4o, autonomous driving and robotics. Despite their impressive performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhenyu Ning , Jieru Zhao , Qihao Jin , Wenchao Ding , Minyi Guo

Video large language models (VLLMs) have significantly advanced recently in processing complex video content, yet their inference efficiency remains constrained because of the high computational cost stemming from the thousands of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Keda Tao , Can Qin , Haoxuan You , Yang Sui , Huan Wang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance on offline video understanding, but most are limited to offline inference or have weak online reasoning, making multi-turn interaction over continuously arriving video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Lu Wang , Zhuoran Jin , Yupu Hao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Yulong Ao , Jun Zhao

Streaming Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various video understanding tasks, but they face significant challenges in real-time deployment due to the high computational cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yiyu Wang , Xuyang Liu , Xiyan Gui , Xinying Lin , Boxue Yang , Chenfei Liao , Tailai Chen , Linfeng Zhang

We present OmniVLM, a sub-billion-parameter vision-language model for efficient on-device inference. OmniVLM introduces a token compression mechanism that reduces visual token sequence length from 729 to 81 tokens, significantly reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Wei Chen , Zhiyuan Li , Shuo Xin

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), long-video understanding remains a challenging problem. Although state-of-the-art long-context VLMs can process around 1000 input frames, they still struggle to effectively leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Anurag Arnab , Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

With recent advancements in video backbone architectures, combined with the remarkable achievements of large language models (LLMs), the analysis of long-form videos spanning tens of minutes has become both feasible and increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yuxiao Chen , Jue Wang , Zhikang Zhang , Jingru Yi , Xu Zhang , Yang Zou , Zhaowei Cai , Jianbo Yuan , Xinyu Li , Hao Yang , Davide Modolo

The core challenge in video understanding lies in perceiving dynamic content changes over time. However, multimodal large language models struggle with temporal-sensitive video tasks, which requires generating timestamps to mark the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Henghao Zhao , Ge-Peng Ji , Rui Yan , Huan Xiong , Zechao Li

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various fields, the efficiency of training and inference remains a major challenge. To address this issue, we propose SUBLLM, short for Subsampling-Upsampling-Bypass…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Quandong Wang , Yuxuan Yuan , Xiaoyu Yang , Ruike Zhang , Kang Zhao , Wei Liu , Jian Luan , Daniel Povey , Bin Wang