arXiv:2606. 16353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming video understanding models must answer queries at any moment during an ongoing stream, using only what they have observed so far and under fixed memory and computation budgets.
MemoryCard is a video-memory-based augmentation framework designed to improve long-video question answering for Vision‑Language Models. It segments lengthy videos into semantically coherent units—each representing a distinct topic or event—by performing a self‑reading process over the video and aligned utterances. For each unit, the framework generates an event‑level video gist and selects representative visual moments, which are compiled into unified Memory Cards that are used for retrieval and answering questions, yielding up to a 21.8% relative accuracy improvement under comparable visual‑token budgets.
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.
arXiv:2609.00291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming video understanding requires answering questions that arrive at arbitrary moments over an unbounded video stream. Existing systems primarily...
arXiv:2606. 09064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have enabled performance on long-video understanding tasks.
arXiv:2607. 24794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate superior generalization in fundamental video tasks, restricted context windows limit their long video understanding.
arXiv:2606. 17798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the remarkable progress of Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs), current online architectures still struggle to simultaneously process continuous video streams, decide autonomously when to respond, and preserve long-horizon contextual memory.
arXiv:2608.27881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, many streaming video understanding methods have been proposed by constructing an external memory to store historical data for computational r...
arXiv:2608. 07663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When videos extend from hours to days, directly processing them end-to-end becomes impractical for current Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs).
The paper introduces TetherMem, a training‑free, query‑aware memory router designed for streaming autoregressive video models that generate long videos in chunks. By separating subject and scene queries and modulating historical access with region‑ and age‑conditioned priors, TetherMem prevents the model from anchoring the scene to stale backgrounds and viewpoints, a problem termed memory‑anchored scene under‑progression. In blinded pairwise evaluations, TetherMem outperforms eight baseline methods in overall quality and scene progression, and on full 30‑second videos it maintains background, viewpoint, and scene changes while preserving subject identity and temporal continuity.
EgoMemReason is a new benchmark for week‑long egocentric video understanding that focuses on memory‑driven reasoning rather than simple perception tasks. It tests three memory types—entity, event, and behavior—across 500 questions, each requiring evidence from an average of 5.1 video segments and 25.9 hours of backtracking. Evaluation of 17 models shows that even the best achieves only 39.6% accuracy, highlighting the difficulty of long‑horizon memory in multimodal systems.
arXiv:2605. 21028v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive long video generation often adopts bounded-memory streaming for efficiency, typically combining local windows for short-term continuity with static early-frame sinks as long-range anchors.