The paper evaluates 14 state‑of‑the‑art text‑to‑video retrieval models on three major datasets using a unified framework. It finds that short, clear, and simple captions—especially those describing single actions or color attributes—yield higher recall, while complex, multi‑step events or fine‑grained scene descriptions remain difficult for all models. Attention‑driven architectures better handle temporally dependent or multi‑step queries, whereas dual‑encoder and multimodal fusion models excel mainly on simpler captions, and cross‑dataset generalization improves with larger, more diverse caption sets but generative captions do not consistently boost accuracy.
By Maria-Eirini Pegia, Dimitrios Stefanopoulos, Bj\"orn {\TH}\'or J\'onsson, Anastasia Moumtzidou, Ilias Gialampoukidis, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
arXiv:2606. 19627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The digital commerce landscape is shifting from static, search-driven catalogs to dynamic, immersive video feeds.
By Katya Mirylenka, Egor Malykh, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh, Michael Gygli, Marco-Andrea Buchmann, Andrew Dzhoha, Svitlana Borzenko, Francesca Catino, Mohamed Gaafar, Maarten Versteegh, Thomas Kober, Dario d'Andrea, Ellie Langhans
arXiv:2608.24845v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We present LAION-BVD, a large-scale open video dataset for multimodal learning, which contains 1.3B platform-specific video URLs collected from Commo...
By Andreas Hochlehnert, Marianna Nezhurina, Mehdi Cherti, Andrej Radonjic, Thadd\"aus Wiedemer, Christoph Schuhmann, Romain Beaumont, Wieland Brendel, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, A. Sophia Koepke, Jenia Jitsev, Matthias Bethge
We present LAION-BVD, a large-scale open video dataset for multimodal learning, which contains 1.3B platform-specific video URLs collected from CommonCrawl. From these, we download 80M videos with a t...
arXiv:2609.10008v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Composed video retrieval (CoVR) searches a gallery for the target video that realizes a natural-language modification of a source clip. However, at gal...
By Dmitry Demidov, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Omkar Thawakar, Abdelrahman Mohamed Shaker, Rao Anwer
arXiv:2604.17422v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Long video understanding remains a formidable challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to the prohibitive cost of processing dens...
By Shaoguang Wang, Weiyu Guo, Ziyang Chen, Xuming Hu, Hui Xiong