The paper introduces Video Attribute-Based Complexity (VideoABC), a non‑parametric framework that estimates the likelihood of failure for video‑LLMs on video‑question pairs. VideoABC projects reference videos into a space defined by a pre‑defined vocabulary of video attributes (e.g., scene complexity, event speed), quantizes this space, and computes expected complexity values for each quantization cell. To handle small reference datasets, it combines a k‑means quantizer for in‑distribution samples with a universal lattice quantizer for out‑of‑distribution generalization, and uses a synthetic video generation procedure to populate lattice cells during training. Experiments demonstrate that VideoABC outperforms methods like ‘video‑LLM as judge’ while requiring fewer resources, and its attribute‑based scores provide interpretable insights into benchmark complexity.
arXiv:2607. 01086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evaluation of long-term video quality understanding remains an open challenge for large vision-language models (LVLMs).
arXiv:2606. 01485v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe our submission to the VRR Challenge @ CVPR 2026, built on the \emph{ImplicitQA} / \emph{VRR-QA} benchmark~\cite{implicitqa}: multiple-choice video question answering in which answers are deliberately \emph{not} observable in any single frame and must be inferred from spatial layout, motion, depth, viewpoint, causality, and social context across discontinuous frames of creative video.
arXiv:2610.28416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code-based video generation offers fine-grained control, targeted editing, and component reuse compared with direct video generation. This approach r...
The paper evaluates five training‑free, plug‑and‑play keyframe selection methods for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on long‑video understanding tasks. It compares these methods across three different MLLMs and three video question‑answering benchmarks, finding that QAaF performs best in 13 of 15 settings while FOCUS ranks second. The study offers a unified benchmark for assessing MLLM‑agnostic keyframe selection techniques.
Concord introduces a Video Relational Algebra (VRA) that models videos, transcripts, frames, and object tracks, enabling semantic video queries. It applies approximate optimizations to rewrite VRA queries, reducing large language model (MLLM) usage by processing transcripts or using detection and tracking instead of full-video MLLM joins. Experiments on soccer broadcasts and lectures show that Concord sends only a small fraction of video to the MLLM, cutting costs by up to 87%, and improves cross‑camera query accuracy from an F1 of .364 to .813 without any MLLM calls.
LF-VideoQA is a new dataset for long‑form, open‑ended question answering over narrative videos, built around theory‑of‑mind questions that require reasoning across scenes averaging 23 minutes. It contains over 6,300 question‑answer‑rubric triples generated automatically from annotated screenplays and validated by humans. The dataset challenges current vision‑language models, showing that even oracle models fall short and that visual evidence is essential for answering these questions.
arXiv:2608. 03112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models excel at image and video understanding but suffer from high inference latency due to the need to process thousands of tokens per image, limiting their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices and in real-time surveillance applications.
arXiv:2607. 14194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-video (T2V) generators can synthesize realistic and temporally coherent videos, but controllably removing a target concept from a generator remains difficult.
arXiv:2607. 24241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in video generation keeps narrowing the visual gap between AI-generated and professionally produced footage, yet most benchmarks still draw prompts from web sources or LLM templates and score them with untrained, generic multimodal models.
arXiv:2609.26425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: KV cache memory has become a major deployment bottleneck for video generation and world models, which motivates low-bit quantization study for efficien...
arXiv:2610.19424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM system capabilities depend not only on model parameters but also on the executable harnesses that organize information acquisition, tool use, reaso...
The study investigates how long‑video language models decide which frames to keep, compress, and reuse, testing each decision in isolation across six selection rules, three benchmarks, and two answering models. It finds that selecting frames based on queries yields the biggest performance boost, that halving spatial resolution costs little, and that reallocating saved tokens to more compressed frames can further improve accuracy. The work also highlights the importance of a unified evaluation harness to avoid misleading comparisons.