arXiv AI

M3TR: Temporal Retrieval Enhanced Multi-Modal Micro-video Popularity Prediction

M3TR is a temporal retrieval‑enhanced multi‑modal framework for predicting micro‑video popularity. It introduces a Mamba‑Hawkes Process module to model user feedback as self‑exciting events, capturing long‑range temporal dependencies. A temporal‑aware retrieval engine then identifies historically relevant videos by combining multi‑modal content similarity with popularity trajectory similarity, augmenting the target video’s features for improved prediction accuracy.

arXiv AI
Jun 19

VCG: A Multimodal Retrieval Framework for E-Commerce Video Feeds under Extreme Cold-Start Conditions

arXiv:2606. 19627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The digital commerce landscape is shifting from static, search-driven catalogs to dynamic, immersive video feeds.

By Katya Mirylenka, Egor Malykh, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh, Michael Gygli, Marco-Andrea Buchmann, Andrew Dzhoha, Svitlana Borzenko, Francesca Catino, Mohamed Gaafar, Maarten Versteegh, Thomas Kober, Dario d'Andrea, Ellie Langhans
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

MultiVENT-Raw: A Benchmark for Retrieval and Reasoning over Raw Videos

MultiVENT‑Raw is a new multilingual benchmark comprising nearly 120,000 raw videos—continuous footage from cell phones, hand‑held cameras, or CCTV—totaling over 5,300 hours. The dataset includes 130 events and 222 event‑centric queries, along with human‑annotated relevance judgments and extracted key facts for relevant videos. It supports two tasks: retrieving videos relevant to a query event and generating a coherent report summarizing event‑related videos for a target user, with baseline models showing these tasks remain challenging.

By Reno Kriz, David Etter, Alexander Martin, Cameron Carpenter, Debashish Chakraborty, Hannah Recknor, Reihaneh Iranmanesh, Matthew Maciejewski, Kenton Murray, Eugene Yang, Benjamin Van Durme, Aaron Steven White, Andrew Yates, William Walden
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

Predict, Then Retrieve: Cross-Instance Future-State Retrieval from Video Prefixes

We introduce Predictive State Retrieval (PSR), a task in which a model observes a short video prefix and a temporal question about an object's future state, then retrieves instances from other videos or images that depict that state. Unlike action anticipation, which predicts a label, moment retrieval, which localizes an observed event within a video, or video generation, which synthesizes pixels, PSR combines anticipation with cross-instance retrieval across multiple temporal horizons.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Drift-Aware Multimodal User Representation Learning via Multi-Scale Temporal Modeling and Sparse Mixture-of-Experts

The paper introduces DUMoE, a drift‑aware multimodal user representation framework that models user preferences over time by integrating static profiles, short‑term signals, and long‑term dependencies. It employs a sparse mixture‑of‑experts interest adapter, where each expert captures a distinct latent interest and a gating network selects relevant experts for each user. A three‑stage training strategy decouples backbone learning, expert specialization, and gating optimization, and experiments on real social media data demonstrate that DUMoE outperforms existing methods in user interest and interaction prediction.

By Ziqing Qian, Haohang Chen, Shengqi Dang, Yuhan Xiong, Canyu Shen, Jiaying Lei, Nan Cao
arXiv AI
Sep 10

TimeBlind: A Spatio-Temporal Compositionality Benchmark for Video LLMs

TimeBlind is a diagnostic benchmark designed to evaluate fine‑grained spatio‑temporal compositionality in video large language models (LLMs). It categorizes temporal understanding into three levels—atomic event recognition, event property characterization, and reasoning about event interdependencies—and uses a minimal‑pairs paradigm where video pairs share identical static content but differ only in temporal structure. Across 20 state‑of‑the‑art MLLMs tested on 600 curated instances, the best model achieved only 48.2% instance accuracy, far below human performance of 98.2%, highlighting a reliance on static visual shortcuts rather than true temporal reasoning.

By Baiqi Li, Kangyi Zhao, Ce Zhang, Chancharik Mitra, Jean de Dieu Nyandwi, Gedas Bertasius
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

TAME: Temporal-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Text-Video Retrieval

TAME is a CLIP‑based framework for Text‑Video Retrieval that incorporates temporal modeling through three key innovations: sparse Mixture‑of‑Experts layers with frame‑consistent routing, Frame‑Temporal tokens that aggregate cross‑frame information, and a Cross‑Temporal Interaction and Aggregation module for refining frame‑wise similarities. These components enable the model to capture both local visual patterns and long‑range temporal dependencies, leading to consistent performance gains over CLIP‑based baselines on multiple TVR benchmarks, including a 4.0 R@1 improvement on MSR‑VTT. The code is publicly available on GitHub.

By Uicheol Jung, Juyoung Hong, Hojung Kwon, Yukyung Choi