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Video generation has recently emerged as a central task in the field of generative AI. However, the substantial computational cost inherent in video synthesis makes model distillation a critical technique for efficient deployment. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuyang You , Yongzhi Li , Jiahui Li , Yadong Mu , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang

The recent explosion in the capabilities of large language models has led to a wave of interest in how best to prompt a model to perform a given task. While it may be tempting to simply choose a prompt based on average performance on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Thomas P. Zollo , Todd Morrill , Zhun Deng , Jake C. Snell , Toniann Pitassi , Richard Zemel

Retrieving events from videos using text queries has become increasingly challenging due to the rapid growth of multimedia content. Existing methods for text-based video event retrieval often focus heavily on object-level descriptions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Long Nguyen , Huy Nguyen , Bao Khuu , Huy Luu , Huy Le , Tuan Nguyen , Tho Quan

Predicting the dynamics of interacting objects is essential for both humans and intelligent systems. However, existing approaches are limited to simplified, toy settings and lack generalizability to complex, real-world environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rick Akkerman , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya

Video diffusion models have achieved impressive results in natural scene generation, yet they struggle to generalize to scientific phenomena such as fluid simulations and meteorological processes, where underlying dynamics are governed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qinglong Cao , Xirui Li , Ding Wang , Chao Ma , Yuntian Chen , Xiaokang Yang

Recent large vision-language models have achieved strong performance on short- and medium-length video understanding, yet they remain inadequate for ultra-long or even infinite video reasoning, where models must preserve coherent memory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Peizheng Yan , Yu Zhao , Liang Xie , Juntong Qi , Mingming Wang , Erwei Yin

Autonomous driving systems struggle with complex scenarios due to limited access to diverse, extensive, and out-of-distribution driving data which are critical for safe navigation. World models offer a promising solution to this challenge;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xi Guo , Chenjing Ding , Haoxuan Dou , Xin Zhang , Weixuan Tang , Wei Wu

Recent video generation models can produce smooth and visually appealing clips, but they often struggle to synthesize complex dynamics with a coherent chain of consequences. Accurately modeling visual outcomes and state transitions over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ziqi Huang , Ning Yu , Gordon Chen , Haonan Qiu , Paul Debevec , Ziwei Liu

We present a sequential model for temporal relation classification between intra-sentence events. The key observation is that the overall syntactic structure and compositional meanings of the multi-word context between events are important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Ruihong Huang

Social goods, such as healthcare, smart city, and information networks, often produce ordered event data in continuous time. The generative processes of these event data can be very complex, requiring flexible models to capture their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Shuang Li , Shuai Xiao , Shixiang Zhu , Nan Du , Yao Xie , Le Song

Ensuring safe and contextually appropriate behaviour in Large Language Models (LLMs) remains a critical challenge for real-world deployment. We present \textbf{SafeCtrl-RL}, an inference-time behavioural control framework that enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Michael Orme , Yanchao Yu , Zhiyuan Tan

We address the problem of specific video event retrieval. Given a query video of a specific event, e.g., a concert of Madonna, the goal is to retrieve other videos of the same event that temporally overlap with the query. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Matthijs Douze , Jérôme Revaud , Jakob Verbeek , Hervé Jégou , Cordelia Schmid

We introduce anticipation: a method for constructing a controllable generative model of a temporal point process (the event process) conditioned asynchronously on realizations of a second, correlated process (the control process). We…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-29 John Thickstun , David Hall , Chris Donahue , Percy Liang

Text-based diffusion models have exhibited remarkable success in generation and editing, showing great promise for enhancing visual content with their generative prior. However, applying these models to video super-resolution remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shangchen Zhou , Peiqing Yang , Jianyi Wang , Yihang Luo , Chen Change Loy

Text-to-video diffusion models are notoriously limited in their ability to model temporal aspects such as motion, physics, and dynamic interactions. Existing approaches address this limitation by retraining the model or introducing external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ariel Shaulov , Itay Hazan , Lior Wolf , Hila Chefer

With the advancement in generative language models, the selection of prompts has gained significant attention in recent years. A prompt is an instruction or description provided by the user, serving as a guide for the generative language…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-21 Haoting Zhang , Jinghai He , Rhonda Righter , Zeyu Zheng

The text-to-image synthesis by diffusion models has recently shown remarkable performance in generating high-quality images. Although performs well for simple texts, the models may get confused when faced with complex texts that contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Chang Yu , Junran Peng , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Qi Tian , Zhen Lei

Video generation models trained on heterogeneous data with likelihood-surrogate objectives can produce visually plausible rollouts that violate physical constraints in embodied manipulation. Although reinforcement-learning post-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhenyang Ni , Yijiang Li , Ruochen Jiao , Simon Sinong Zhan , Sipeng Chen , Zhenfei Yin , Minshuo Chen , Philip Torr , Zhaoran Wang , Qi Zhu

Diffusion models have emerged as the de facto paradigm for video generation. However, their reliance on web-scale data of varied quality often yields results that are visually unappealing and misaligned with the textual prompts. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Hangjie Yuan , Shiwei Zhang , Xiang Wang , Yujie Wei , Tao Feng , Yining Pan , Yingya Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Samuel Albanie , Dong Ni

We present an efficient framework that can generate a coherent paragraph to describe a given video. Previous works on video captioning usually focus on video clips. They typically treat an entire video as a whole and generate the caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Yilei Xiong , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin