arXiv AI By Ruyi Xu, Guangxuan Xiao, Yukang Chen, Liuning He, Yao Lu, Song Han

StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams

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arXiv:2510. 09608v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) could power real-time assistants and autonomous agents, but they face a critical challenge: understanding near-infinite video streams without escalating latency and memory usage.

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