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Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) excel at understanding videos in-context, provided they have full access to the video when answering queries. However, these models face challenges in streaming scenarios where hour-long videos must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Vaggelis Dorovatas , Soroush Seifi , Gunshi Gupta , Rahaf Aljundi

Real-time understanding of long video streams remains challenging for multimodal large language models (VLMs) due to redundant frame processing and rapid forgetting of past context. Existing streaming systems rely on fixed-interval decoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhenghui Guo , Yuanbin Man , Junyuan Sheng , Bowen Lin , Ahmed Ahmed , Bo Jiang , Boyuan Zhang , Miao Yin , Sian Jin , Omprakash Gnawal , Chengming Zhang

Unlike offline processing, streaming video vision-language models face two fundamental constraints: causality and accumulation. Causality prevents access to future frames that offline methods exploit, while accumulation causes tokens to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xueyi Chen , Keda Tao , Kele Shao , Huan Wang

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant improvement in offline video understanding. However, extending these capabilities to streaming video inputs, remains challenging, as existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Haowei Zhang , Shudong Yang , Jinlan Fu , See-Kiong Ng , Xipeng Qiu

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced multimodal tasks such as video question answering (QA). However, VLMs face the challenge of selecting frames effectively and efficiently, as standard uniform sampling is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Martin Q. Ma , Willis Guo , Aditya Agrawal , Ankit Gupta , Paul Pu Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

Streaming video understanding requires models to robustly encode, store, and retrieve information from a continuous video stream to support accurate video question answering (VQA). Existing state-of-the-art approaches rely on key-value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Vatsal Agarwal , Saksham Suri , Matthew Gwilliam , Pulkit Kumar , Abhinav Shrivastava

We present DeepSeek-VL, an open-source Vision-Language (VL) Model designed for real-world vision and language understanding applications. Our approach is structured around three key dimensions: We strive to ensure our data is diverse,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Haoyu Lu , Wen Liu , Bo Zhang , Bingxuan Wang , Kai Dong , Bo Liu , Jingxiang Sun , Tongzheng Ren , Zhuoshu Li , Hao Yang , Yaofeng Sun , Chengqi Deng , Hanwei Xu , Zhenda Xie , Chong Ruan

Long-form video understanding is essential for various applications such as video retrieval, summarizing, and question answering. Yet, traditional approaches demand substantial computing power and are often bottlenecked by GPU memory. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Saket Gurukar , Asim Kadav

Recent Large Language Models have been enhanced with vision capabilities, enabling them to comprehend images, videos, and interleaved vision-language content. However, the learning methods of these large multimodal models typically treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Joya Chen , Zhaoyang Lv , Shiwei Wu , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Chenan Song , Difei Gao , Jia-Wei Liu , Ziteng Gao , Dongxing Mao , Mike Zheng Shou

Long streaming video QA remains challenging due to growing visual tokens and limited reasoning length of large language models (LLMs). KV-caching stores the Key-Value (KV) of the historical tokens via LLM prefill and enables more efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Junbin Xiao , Jiajun Chen , Tianxiang Sun , Xun Yang , Angela Yao

Recent advancements in Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) have gained significant attention due to their remarkable reasoning capabilities and proficiency in generalization. However, processing a large number of visual tokens and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Kai Huang , Hao Zou , Bochen Wang , Ye Xi , Zhen Xie , Hao Wang

Benefiting from the advancements in large language models and cross-modal alignment, existing multi-modal video understanding methods have achieved prominent performance in offline scenario. However, online video streams, as one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Haoji Zhang , Yiqin Wang , Yansong Tang , Yong Liu , Jiashi Feng , Jifeng Dai , Xiaojie Jin

Human action recognition in long-term videos, characterized by complex backgrounds and subtle action differences, poses significant challenges for traditional deep learning models due to computational overhead, difficulty in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Kaining Li , Shuwei He , Zihan Xu

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models have greatly improved visual understanding and reasoning, yet their quadratic attention and offline training protocols make them ill-suited for streaming settings where frames arrive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yulin Zhang , Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

Streaming video question answering (Streaming Video QA) poses distinct challenges for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), as video frames arrive sequentially and user queries can be issued at arbitrary time points. Existing solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haocheng Lu , Nan Zhang , Wei Tao , Xiaoyang Qu , Guokuan Li , Jiguang Wan , Jianzong Wang

In the field of instruction-following large vision-language models (LVLMs), the efficient deployment of these models faces challenges, notably due to the high memory demands of their key-value (KV) caches. Conventional cache management…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Zuyan Liu , Benlin Liu , Jiahui Wang , Yuhao Dong , Guangyi Chen , Yongming Rao , Ranjay Krishna , Jiwen Lu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in diverse visual tasks but face challenges in document understanding, which requires fine-grained text processing. While typical visual tasks perform well with low-resolution inputs, reading-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Mor Shpigel Nacson , Aviad Aberdam , Roy Ganz , Elad Ben Avraham , Alona Golts , Yair Kittenplon , Shai Mazor , Ron Litman

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

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in streaming applications such as multi-round dialogue, where long interactions are expected, is urgently needed but poses two major challenges. Firstly, during the decoding stage, caching previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Guangxuan Xiao , Yuandong Tian , Beidi Chen , Song Han , Mike Lewis

Video large language models (Vid-LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in understanding video content. However, their reliance on dense video token representations introduces substantial memory and computational overhead in both prefilling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yicheng Ji , Jun Zhang , Heming Xia , Jinpeng Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen , Huan Li