arXiv Computer Vision By Yuwei Miao, Xuesheng Zhang, Wenhao Zou, Jixia Zhang, Jianwei Lv, Bo Yuan, Junfeng Wang, Shiao Xie

EGSD: Event-Grounded Self-Distillation for Streaming Video Understanding

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The paper introduces Event‑Grounded Self‑Distillation (EGSD), a method for real‑time video understanding that treats streaming memory as incremental updates over verifiable events such as key visual entities, actions, and details. EGSD adapts on‑policy self‑distillation by combining a multiplicative weight with outcome reward to align teacher and student preferences, and re‑weights the teacher with event information plus an entity‑coverage reward to counter question‑relevance bias. Experiments on StreamingBench and OVO‑Bench Real‑Time track show EGSD achieves 79.8 % and 73.4 % accuracy respectively, while improving effective‑entity recall by 17.4 % with only a 6.8 % increase in memory length.

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