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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…

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Large Language Models (LLMs), with remarkable conversational capability, have emerged as AI assistants that can handle both visual and textual modalities. However, their effectiveness in joint video and language understanding has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ruipu Luo , Ziwang Zhao , Min Yang , Zheming Yang , Minghui Qiu , Tao Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Yanhao Wang , Cen Chen

The application of reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) constitutes a rapidly advancing research area. While MLLMs extend Large Language Models (LLMs) to handle…

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Video reasoning, which requires multi-step deduction across frames, remains a major challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). While reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods enhance reasoning capabilities, they often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kun Ouyang , Yuanxin Liu , Linli Yao , Yishuo Cai , Hao Zhou , Jie Zhou , Fandong Meng , Xu Sun

Most of the existing methods for video understanding primarily focus on videos only lasting tens of seconds, with limited exploration of techniques for handling long videos. The increased number of frames in long videos poses two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ziyu Ma , Chenhui Gou , Hengcan Shi , Bin Sun , Shutao Li , Hamid Rezatofighi , Jianfei Cai

Recent advances in image reasoning methods, particularly "Thinking with Images", have demonstrated remarkable success in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs); however, this dynamic reasoning paradigm has not yet been extended to video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shijian Wang , Jiarui Jin , Xingjian Wang , Linxin Song , Runhao Fu , Hecheng Wang , Zongyuan Ge , Yuan Lu , Xuelian Cheng

Reinforcement learning based post-training paradigms for Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have achieved significant success by optimizing for visual-semantic tasks such as captioning or VideoQA. However, while these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiaokun Sun , Zezhong Wu , Zewen Ding , Linli Xu

The advent of large vision-language models (LVLMs) has spurred research into their applications in multi-modal contexts, particularly in video understanding. Traditional VideoQA benchmarks, despite providing quantitative metrics, often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Xinyu Fang , Kangrui Mao , Haodong Duan , Xiangyu Zhao , Yining Li , Dahua Lin , Kai Chen

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show promise in video understanding. However, their reasoning often suffers from thinking drift and weak temporal comprehension, even when enhanced by Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Peiyao Wang , Haotian Xu , Noranart Vesdapunt , Rui Hou , Jingyi Zhang , Haibin Ling , Oleksandr Obiednikov , Ning Zhou , Kah Kuen Fu

Applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) to Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) shows significant promise for complex video reasoning. However, popular Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) methods, such as outcome-based Group Relative Policy…

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Large-scale video-language pre-training has shown significant improvement in video-language understanding tasks. Previous studies of video-language pretraining mainly focus on short-form videos (i.e., within 30 seconds) and sentences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuchong Sun , Hongwei Xue , Ruihua Song , Bei Liu , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities on static images, they often fall short in comprehending dynamic, information-dense short-form videos, a dominant medium in today's digital landscape. To…

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in coarse-grained video understanding, however, they struggle with fine-grained temporal grounding. In this paper, we introduce Grounded-VideoLLM, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Haibo Wang , Zhiyang Xu , Yu Cheng , Shizhe Diao , Yufan Zhou , Yixin Cao , Qifan Wang , Weifeng Ge , Lifu Huang

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown great potential for video reasoning with textual Chain-of-Thought. However, they remain vulnerable to hallucinations, especially when processing long-form videos where evidence is sparse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zuhao Yang , Sudong Wang , Kaichen Zhang , Keming Wu , Sicong Leng , Yifan Zhang , Bo Li , Chengwei Qin , Shijian Lu , Xingxuan Li , Lidong Bing

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities in cross-modal understanding and generation. However, the rapid growth of visual token sequences--especially in long-video and streaming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haicheng Wang , Yuan Liu , Yikun Liu , Zhemeng Yu , Zhongyin Zhao , Yangxiu You , Zilin Yu , Le Tian , Xiao Zhou , Jie Zhou , Weidi Xie , Yanfeng Wang

While the safety risks of image-based large language models (Image LLMs) have been extensively studied, their video-based counterparts (Video LLMs) remain critically under-examined. To systematically study this problem, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiwei Sun , Peiqi Jiang , Chuanbin Liu , Luohao Lin , Zhiying Lu , Hongtao Xie

We present GLM-4.1V-Thinking, GLM-4.5V, and GLM-4.6V, a family of vision-language models (VLMs) designed to advance general-purpose multimodal understanding and reasoning. In this report, we share our key findings in the development of the…

Video diffusion models have made rapid progress in perceptual realism and temporal coherence, but they remain primarily optimized for plausible generation rather than verifiable reasoning. This limitation is especially pronounced in tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Tinghui Zhu , Sheng Zhang , James Y. Huang , Selena Song , Xiaofei Wen , Yuankai Li , Hoifung Poon , Muhao Chen

In medical visual question answering (Med-VQA), achieving accurate responses relies on three critical steps: precise perception of medical imaging data, logical reasoning grounded in visual input and textual questions, and coherent answer…

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