arXiv Computer Vision

Does Video Memory Use What It Retrieves? A Causal Audit of Memory Specificity

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Echo-Memory: A Controlled Study of Memory in Action World Models

arXiv:2606. 09803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present \textbf{Echo-Memory}, a controlled study of memory mechanisms in action-conditioned world models.

By Wayne King, Zeyue Xue, Yuxuan Bian, Jie Huang, Haoran Li, Yaowei Li, Yaofeng Su, Yuming Li, Haoyu Wang, Shiyi Zhang, Songchun Zhang, Yuwei Niu, Sihan Xu, Junhao Zhuang, Haoyang Huang, Nan Duan
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

The Past Frames the Future: Memory for Autoregressive Video Generation

arXiv:2609.28466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in generative models have improved video fidelity, enabling long-horizon generation, interactive world modeling, and evolving visual environme...

By Harold Haodong Chen, Rongjin Guo, Disen Lan, Wen-Jie Shu, Hongfei Zhang, Hanzhe Hu, Shengtao Yao, Zixin Zhang, Guibin Zhang, Zhefan Rao, Jinxiu Liu, Yexin Liu, Rui Peng, Yuhao Liu, Bin Ren, Shuai Yang, Yukang Chen, Salman Khan, Ying-Cong Chen, Ser-Nam Lim, Rynson W. H. Lau, Nicu Sebe, Yu Cheng, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Qifeng Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

LayerRecall: A State-Conditioned Memory Router for Long-Horizon Consistency in Video Generation

LayerRecall is a memory router for autoregressive video diffusion that selectively retrieves and injects historical key/value states into specific layers of the model, based on the current context. It addresses the problem that existing memory mechanisms expose nonlocal history but do not guarantee effective use, by recognizing that different layers prefer current, recent, or distant context. The method, combined with Cross‑Horizon Prediction Matching, achieves state‑of‑the‑art long‑range consistency on MemoBench and MovieBench while maintaining local continuity and incurring negligible inference overhead.

By Yixuan Ding, Jiahao Kong, Wei Huang, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

R2M-Bench: Evaluating Revisit Memory via Relative Consistency in Interactive Video World Models

R2M-Bench is a benchmark that evaluates revisit memory in interactive video world models by comparing a revisit pair to two control pairs from the same rollout: a gap‑matched non‑revisit pair and a short‑range pair. It introduces MemoryGain (MG) and Normalized Memory Ratio (NMR) to quantify the revisit advantage over generic temporal stability and normalize it by short‑to‑baseline dynamics. Across 300 instances and seven models, NMR correlates with human judgments and reduces the influence of slow‑motion artifacts, with DreamX‑World‑Memo achieving the highest NMR.

By Qiwen Gu, Bingjie Gao, Rui Chen, Geng Li, Jifan Li, Qishuai Wen, Li Niu, Jing Tang, Xiangxiang Chu, Junqiao Zhao
arXiv AI
2d ago

Causal Memory Policy: Making Memory Utility Identifiable by Intervening on Retrieval

The paper introduces Causal Memory Policy (CMP), a framework that identifies the utility of memories in memory‑augmented language models by intervening on retrieval rather than on storage. CMP reserves fixed context slots for memories sampled with known propensities and estimates utility using self‑normalized inverse propensity weighting, providing unbiased estimates and exact variance. Experiments show that CMP improves discrimination between required and non‑required memories and reveals that identified utility alone is insufficient for retention decisions across unseen queries.

By Arman Behnam, Binghui Wang