arXiv AI By Tobia Poppi, Burak Uzkent, Amanmeet Garg, Lucas Porto, Garin Kessler, Yezhou Yang, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara, Florian Schiffers

CounterVid: Counterfactual Video Generation for Mitigating Action and Temporal Hallucinations in Video-Language Models

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CounterVid introduces a scalable counterfactual video generation framework that creates videos differing only in actions or temporal structure while keeping scene context intact. The approach uses multimodal LLMs for action proposals and diffusion models for editing, producing a synthetic dataset of ~26k preference pairs for action recognition and sequence ordering. With the MixDPO optimization method, the authors demonstrate significant improvements in action recognition and temporal ordering on Qwen2.5‑VL and InternVL3 backbones, while maintaining overall video understanding.

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