LRConv-NeRV introduces low‑rank separable convolutions into the NeRV neural video decoder, replacing selected dense 3x3 layers to reduce computational load and memory usage. By applying low‑rank factorization progressively from the largest to earlier decoder stages, the method offers controllable trade‑offs between reconstruction quality and efficiency. Experiments show that applying LRConv only to the final decoder stage cuts decoder complexity by 68% and model size by 9.3% with negligible quality loss, while INT8 quantization preserves performance close to the dense baseline.
By Tamer Shanableh
TCNeRV is a new implicit neural video compression method that models temporal context in both feature and embedding domains. Its multi‑scale temporal‑context fusion module injects gated historical features across decoder scales, while temporal embedding‑residual coding predicts and encodes only the residual of each content embedding. With about 3 million parameters, TCNeRV achieves an average PSNR of 36.08 dB on the UVG dataset, outperforming HNeRV‑Boost by 2.20 dB and reducing BD‑rate by 22.06%, 66.73%, and 29.85% relative to HM, DCVC, and HiNeRV respectively.
By Xuezhi Xiang, Yixin Zhao, Heqi Xiang, Jiayao Liu, Shanjun Zhang
Latent video generation relies on autoencoders to define a compact space in which generative models operate. Although video autoencoder architectures have evolved substantially, their latent spaces are still optimized primarily for pixel-level reconstruction and provide limited high-level semantic organization.
arXiv:2610.33079v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale AI training increasingly relies on massive video datasets with random temporal sampling patterns. However, existing video storage paradigms...
By Zetian Song, Qize Yu, Yue Chen, Bohan Zhou, Bowen Ping, Yuqi Ye, Haocheng Tang, Haotian Zhang, Qizhe Wang, Shiyu Huang, Jiaqi Zhang, Siwei Ma, Wen Gao
Scalable Neural Video Representation Compression (S-NVRC) introduces a scalable implicit neural representation (INR) video codec that supports fine-grained bitrate and decoding‑complexity scalability from a single embedded bitstream. It uses a coarse‑to‑fine prefix for feature grids and a nested prefix for network layers, enabling a wide range of operating points while maintaining a single encoding. On the UVG dataset, S‑NVRC outperforms SHM 12.4 and multi‑layer VTM‑20.0 by 43.7 % and 5.6 % in BD‑rate, respectively, and offers flexible complexity scalability.
By Tianhao Peng, Ho Man Kwan, Fan Zhang, Shan Liu, David Bull
LDDR (Linear DPP Dynamic Resolution) is a training‑free, budget‑aware video frame sampling framework designed for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). It uses query‑aware Determinantal Point Process (DPP) selection in a task‑conditioned feature space, achieving a 3× runtime speedup over standard DPP baselines. By assigning a non‑uniform token budget—allocating more tokens to informative, non‑redundant frames and downscaling or pruning less useful ones—LDDR improves performance by 2.5 points in low‑budget settings and 1.6 points in high‑budget scenarios across four video benchmarks and multiple MLLM families.
By Jingfeng Chen, Jiawen Qian, Wendi Deng, Yinuo Guo, Jiaqi Yu, Sicong Leng, Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Bhuwan Dhingra
The paper introduces UniGVC, a unified generative video codec that supports both low‑delay streaming and high‑quality playback from a single bitstream. It offers two decoding modes: UniGVC‑BI, a bidirectional diffusion model with dense attention for quality‑oriented random‑access decoding, and UniGVC‑AR, a windowed autoregressive diffusion model for low‑delay streaming. Both modes share a hierarchical latent codec that produces ultra‑low‑bitrate conditions, enabling the BI model to act as a teacher for distilling the AR model, while a lightweight conditional decoder further reduces streaming latency.
By Tianyu Zhang, Shuai Huo, Dengchao Jin, Hewei Liu, Meng Lei, Tianwen Wu, Jiawen Gu, Chao Zhou, Li Li, Dong Liu
Video large language models (VLLMs) need long visual token sequences, making token compression essential for efficient inference. This paper introduces a training‑free token compression method that leverages existing video codec information—such as reference‑frame dependencies, motion vectors, and residuals—to guide low‑cost search for token protection and temporal merging. Experiments on three VLLMs and four benchmarks show that the method matches or surpasses the FlashVID baseline while dramatically reducing feature comparisons.
By Xihua Sheng, Ruijie Liu, Chang Wen Chen
Video large language models (VLLMs) need long visual token sequences, making token compression essential for efficient inference. This paper introduces a training‑free token compression technique that leverages existing video codec information—such as reference‑frame dependencies, motion vectors, and residuals—to guide low‑cost search priors. By aligning these codec cues with the visual token grid, the method creates compact candidate pools for token protection and localized candidates for temporal token merging, reducing feature comparisons while maintaining performance comparable to or better than the FlashVID baseline across multiple VLLMs and benchmarks.
The paper introduces VoRTeC, a video compression framework that leverages a foundational flow model to encode latent video representations compactly and predict their positions along flow trajectories. By integrating multi‑scale priors and avoiding access to flow‑matching network parameters, VoRTeC achieves one‑step decoding with high perceptual fidelity, while maintaining temporal consistency through tail‑frame reuse and prior caching. Experiments show a 58% reduction in bit consumption compared to prior diffusion‑based methods and a decoding speed increase ranging from 3 to 197 times, reaching 13 FPS at 720p and 32 FPS at 480p.
By Yichong Xia, Qinhong Wu, Qinhong Wu, Jinpeng Wang, Zeyuan Chen, Haoqian Wang
arXiv:2608.20473v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Video language models process videos as dense visual-token sequences with substantial representational redundancy. Compressing these sequences is there...
By Wenti Yin, Xiaotian Han, Junyuan Shang, Yuchen Ding, Shuohuan Wang, Dianhai Yu, Changxin Gao, Nong Sang
TAME introduces a Temporal-Aware Mixture-of-Experts framework for Text-Video Retrieval that enhances CLIP-based models by incorporating frame-level structure and temporal relations. It adds sparse Mixture-of-Experts layers with frame-consistent routing, Frame-Temporal tokens for global cross-frame aggregation, and a Cross-Temporal Interaction and Aggregation module to refine sentence-video similarities. Experiments on multiple TVR benchmarks show consistent performance gains, such as a 4.0 R@1 improvement on MSR‑VTT over CLIP4Clip.