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Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in short video understanding tasks but face great challenges when applied to long video understanding. In contrast, Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Hongchen Wei , Zhenzhong Chen

Long-context LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems process information passively, deferring state tracking, contradiction resolution, and evidence aggregation to query time, which becomes brittle under ultra long streams…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kehao Zhang , Shangtong Gui , Sheng Yang , Wei Chen , Yang Feng

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with visual encoders has recently shown promising performance in visual understanding tasks, leveraging their inherent capability to comprehend and generate human-like text for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Heqing Zou , Tianze Luo , Guiyang Xie , Victor , Zhang , Fengmao Lv , Guangcong Wang , Junyang Chen , Zhuochen Wang , Hansheng Zhang , Huaijian Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) excel at many NLP tasks but struggle to sustain long-term interactions due to limited attention over extended dialogue histories. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) mitigates this issue but lacks reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Chunliang Chen , Ming Guan , Xiao Lin , Jiaxu Li , Luxi Lin , Qiyi Wang , Xiangyu Chen , Jixiang Luo , Changzhi Sun , Dell Zhang , Xuelong Li

Current generation of memory-augmented neural networks has limited scalability as they cannot efficiently process data that are too large to fit in the external memory storage. One example of this is lifelong learning scenario where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Hyunwoo Jung , Moonsu Han , Minki Kang , Sungju Hwang

Multimodal information, together with our knowledge, help us to understand the complex and dynamic world. Large language models (LLM) and large multimodal models (LMM), however, still struggle to emulate this capability. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yuanhan Zhang , Kaichen Zhang , Bo Li , Fanyi Pu , Christopher Arif Setiadharma , Jingkang Yang , Ziwei Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) based agents excel at diverse tasks, yet they suffer from brittle procedural memory that is manually engineered or entangled in static parameters. In this work, we investigate strategies to endow agents with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Runnan Fang , Yuan Liang , Xiaobin Wang , Jialong Wu , Shuofei Qiao , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Understanding domain-specific theorems often requires more than just text-based reasoning; effective communication through structured visual explanations is crucial for deeper comprehension. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Max Ku , Thomas Chong , Jonathan Leung , Krish Shah , Alvin Yu , Wenhu Chen

Training multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for video understanding requires large-scale annotated data spanning diverse tasks such as object counting, question answering, and segmentation. However, collecting and annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tanzila Rahman , Renjie Liao , Leonid Sigal

We introduce M3-Agent, a novel multimodal agent framework equipped with long-term memory. Like humans, M3-Agent can process real-time visual and auditory inputs to build and update episodic and semantic memories, gradually accumulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lin Long , Yichen He , Wentao Ye , Yiyuan Pan , Yuan Lin , Hang Li , Junbo Zhao , Wei Li

Long video understanding remains a fundamental challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in tasks requiring precise temporal reasoning and event localization. Existing approaches typically adopt uniform frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chao Yuan , Yang Yang , Yehui Yang , Zach Cheng

Long-term agent memory is increasingly multimodal, yet existing evaluations rarely test whether agents preserve the visual evidence needed for later reasoning. In prior work, many visually grounded questions can be answered using only…

Long-form egocentric video understanding provides rich contextual information and unique insights into long-term human behaviors, holding significant potential for applications in embodied intelligence, long-term activity analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wenqi Zhou , Kai Cao , Hao Zheng , Yunze Liu , Xinyi Zheng , Miao Liu , Per Ola Kristensson , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Fan Zhang , Weizhe Lin , Junxiao Shen

Videos capture events that typically contain multiple sequential, and simultaneous, actions even in the span of only a few seconds. However, most large-scale datasets built to train models for action recognition in video only provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mathew Monfort , Bowen Pan , Kandan Ramakrishnan , Alex Andonian , Barry A McNamara , Alex Lascelles , Quanfu Fan , Dan Gutfreund , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva

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

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in short video understanding. However, understanding long-form videos still remains challenging for MLLMs. This paper proposes TimeSuite, a collection of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xiangyu Zeng , Kunchang Li , Chenting Wang , Xinhao Li , Tianxiang Jiang , Ziang Yan , Songze Li , Yansong Shi , Zhengrong Yue , Yi Wang , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang

Long-term memory is a cornerstone of human intelligence. Enabling AI to process lifetime-scale information remains a long-standing pursuit in the field. Due to the constraints of full-attention architectures, the effective context length of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yu Chen , Runkai Chen , Sheng Yi , Xinda Zhao , Xiaohong Li , Jianjin Zhang , Jun Sun , Chuanrui Hu , Yunyun Han , Lidong Bing , Yafeng Deng , Tianqiao Chen

Sports video understanding requires perceiving high-speed dynamics, complex rules, and long temporal contexts. Yet, current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remain narrowly focused on single sports, specific tasks, or training-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Junbo Zou , Haotian Xia , Zhen Ye , Shengjie Zhang , Christopher Lai , Vicente Ordonez , Weining Shen , Hanjie Chen

Extending language models to video introduces two challenges: representation, where existing methods rely on lossy approximations, and long-context, where caption- or agent-based pipelines collapse video into text and lose visual fidelity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Mohamed Eltahir , Ali Habibullah , Yazan Alshoibi , Lama Ayash , Tanveer Hussain , Naeemullah Khan