The paper introduces a unified multi-domain and multi-task generative framework for event extraction that incorporates explicit domain conditioning signals and task-specific prompts. This design allows a single model to adapt dynamically to different event schemas without needing full event label sets during inference, supporting both pipeline and end-to-end extraction. Experiments on various benchmarks show competitive performance, strong cross-domain generalization, and practical scalability while maintaining domain-specific precision.
By Siting Liang, Omar Adjali, Daniel Sonntag
The paper introduces a scalable cross‑domain event extraction system built on a unified generative sequence‑to‑sequence framework. It jointly handles event detection and argument extraction, allowing both pipeline and end‑to‑end configurations. By fine‑tuning pretrained language models on multiple event datasets from diverse domains, the system retains domain‑specific semantics while generalizing across large, evolving label spaces, and offers a web‑based application for researchers to upload documents, extract events, visualize triggers and arguments, and compare configurations.
By Siting Liang, Omar Adjali, Omair Shahzad Bhatti, Daniel Sonntag
arXiv:2606. 26994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing referring video segmentation methods often treat a video as a single event consisting of multiple images, overlooking the fact that a video typically contains multiple distinct events.
By Jinyu Liu, Henghui Ding, Shuting He, Yu-Gang Jiang
arXiv:2606. 06294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Temporal Grounding (TG) aims to localize video segments corresponding to a textual query.
By Qi Xu, Yue Tan, Shihao Chen, Jiahao Meng, Anna Wang, Shunping Ji, Hao Fei, Jason Li
Event analysis is an essential and fundamental direction of information extraction, involving various event-centric tasks at different granularity of documents. While large language models (LLMs) have preliminarily achieved promising performance in part of these tasks individually, their capability in event analysis still lacks comprehensive understanding due to restricted document granularity, task designs, and data source of existing benchmarks.
Event-Causal RAG (EC‑RAG) is a lightweight retrieval‑augmented framework designed for reasoning over ultra‑long and streaming videos. It segments video streams into semantically complete events using a dual visual‑audio sentinel mechanism, representing each event as a State‑Event‑State (SES) structure that captures pre‑event, event, and post‑event states. During question answering, bidirectional graph retrieval accesses relevant predecessor and successor events from a dual vector‑graph memory, and answers are generated using both this structured memory and the corresponding video evidence. The authors also introduce ECV‑1H, an hour‑scale long‑video QA benchmark with over 150 hours of untrimmed video and 1,251 human‑annotated QA pairs, where EC‑RAG achieves significant accuracy gains across multiple video foundation models while maintaining efficient streaming memory usage on a single RTX 5090 GPU.
By Peizheng Yan, Yu Zhao, Liang Xie, Juntong Qi, Mingming Wang, Erwei Yin
arXiv:2608.28699v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Understanding long-form video remains a fundamental challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Sparse frame sampling fails to capture fine...
By Dong-Hee Kim, Seonwoo Choi, Changbeen Kim, Jungmyung Wi, Juyeon Ko, Youngju Choi, Il Hyeon Mun, Hyunwoo J. Kim, Donghyun Kim
arXiv:2607. 04872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning temporal localization (RTL) requires a model to generate an answer that itself contains the time interval supporting it, so high-level reasoning and precise temporal grounding must be produced jointly in a single response.
By Youngkil Song, Yoonjae Baek, Dongwon Kim, Inho Kim, Dongkeun Kim, Suha Kwak
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).
By Arpita Nema, Hanwei Zhu, Xi Zhang, Weisi Lin
arXiv:2608. 20127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) faces significant challenges when natural language queries must distinguish between multiple events involving visually similar entities, particularly when relying on fine-grained visual attributes that are difficult to describe accurately in words alone.
By Minghang Zheng, Jingli Wei, Hongyi Yang, Yang Liu
arXiv:2607. 24560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce EgoPlay, an event-triggered video-to-video editor for egocentric streams, obtained by fine-tuning a pretrained V2V diffusion transformer on event-conditioned data built primarily from Ego4D.
By Jinjie Mai, Gordon Guocheng Qian, Willi Menapace, Arpit Sahni, Chaoyang Wang, Ashkan Mirzaei, Runjia Li, Sergey Tulyakov, Bernard Ghanem, Peter Wonka, Rameen Abdal
arXiv:2605. 21917v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training Vision Language Models (VLMs) for video event reasoning requires high-quality structured annotations capturing not only what happened, but when, where, why, and with what consequence, at a scale manual labelling cannot support.
By Han Zhang, Wanting Jiang, Tomasz Kornuta, Tian Zheng, Vidya Murali