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Modern visual agents require representations that are general, causal, and physically structured to operate in real-time streaming environments. However, current vision foundation models remain fragmented, specializing narrowly in image…

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Recent streaming video understanding methods increasingly rely on complex memory mechanisms to handle long video streams. We challenge this trend with a simple finding: a sliding-window baseline that feeds only the most recent N frames to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yujiao Shen , Shulin Tian , Jingkang Yang , Ziwei Liu

Streaming video reasoning requires models to operate in a setting where history grows without bound while meaningful evidence remains scarce. In such a landscape, relevant signal is like an oasis-small, critical, and easily lost in a desert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhijia Liang , Jiaming Li , Weikai Chen , Yanhao Zhang , Haonan Lu , Guanbin Li

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

In AI-powered e-commerce livestreaming, digital avatars require real-time responses to drive engagement, a task for which high-latency Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) are ill-suited. We introduce LiveThinking, a practical two-stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yuhan Sun , Zhiwei Huang , Wanqing Cui , Shaopan Xiong , Yazhi Guo , Meiguang Jin , Junfeng Ma

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities in image understanding, motivating recent efforts to extend them to video reasoning. However, existing Video LLMs struggle in online streaming scenarios, where long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zifan Han , Hongbo Sun , Jinglin Xu , Canhui Tang , Yulong Lei , Xuchong Zhang , Hongbin Sun , Zhongjiang He , Hao Sun

Data streams occur widely in various real world applications. The research on streaming data mainly focuses on the data management, query evaluation and optimization on these data, however the work on reasoning procedures for streaming…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress in perception, understanding, and reasoning, yet existing benchmarks fall short in evaluating these abilities under continuous and dynamic real-world video streams. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Shuhang Xun , Sicheng Tao , Jungang Li , Yibo Shi , Zhixin Lin , Zhanhui Zhu , Yibo Yan , Hanqian Li , Linghao Zhang , Shikang Wang , Yixin Liu , Hanbo Zhang , Ying Ma , Xuming Hu

Continual learning is increasingly sought after in real world machine learning applications, as it enables learning in a more human-like manner. Conventional machine learning approaches fail to achieve this, as incrementally updating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Joe Khawand , Peter Hanappe , David Colliaux

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

Recent advancements in multimodal reward models (RMs) have substantially improved post-training for visual generative models. However, current RMs face inherent limitations: (1) visual inputs consume large context budgets, forcing fewer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Qunzhong Wang , Jie Liu , Jiajun Liang , Yilei Jiang , Yuanxing Zhang , Yaozhi Zheng , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Xiangyu Yue , Jiaheng Liu

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance across many tasks, yet most systems remain limited to offline inference, requiring complete inputs before generating outputs. Recent streaming methods reduce latency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Junyan Lin , Junlong Tong , Hao Wu , Jialiang Zhang , Jinming Liu , Xin Jin , Xiaoyu Shen

Benefiting from the advances in large language models and cross-modal alignment, existing multimodal large language models have achieved prominent performance in image and short video understanding. However, the understanding of long videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haoji Zhang , Yiqin Wang , Yansong Tang , Yong Liu , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin

We introduce Delayed Streams Modeling (DSM), a flexible formulation for streaming, multimodal sequence-to-sequence learning. Sequence-to-sequence generation is often cast in an offline manner, where the model consumes the complete input…

Real-world dialogue usually unfolds as an infinite stream. It thus requires bounded-state memory mechanisms to operate within an infinite horizon. However, existing read-then-think memory is fundamentally misaligned with this setting, as it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Bingbing Wang , Jing Li , Ruifeng Xu

The rapid growth of streaming video applications demands multimodal models with enhanced capabilities for temporal dynamics understanding and complex reasoning. However, current Video Question Answering (VideoQA) datasets suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yuhang Hu , Zhenyu Yang , Shihan Wang , Shengsheng Qian , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Changsheng Xu

Streaming video understanding requires models not only to process temporally incoming frames, but also to anticipate user intention for realistic applications such as Augmented Reality (AR) glasses. While prior streaming benchmarks evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Daeun Lee , Subhojyoti Mukherjee , Branislav Kveton , Ryan A. Rossi , Viet Dac Lai , Seunghyun Yoon , Trung Bui , Franck Dernoncourt , Mohit Bansal

Long video understanding is essential for human-like intelligence, enabling coherent perception and reasoning over extended temporal contexts. While the emerging thinking-with-frames paradigm, which alternates between global temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Pengfei Hu , Meng Cao , Yingyao Wang , Yi Wang , Jiahua Dong , Jun Song , Yu Cheng , Bo Zheng , Xiaodan Liang

Current video understanding models rely on fixed frame sampling strategies, processing predetermined visual inputs regardless of the specific reasoning requirements of each question. This static approach limits their ability to adaptively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Haonan Ge , Yiwei Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Hang Wu , Yujun Cai