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Recent progress in multimodal large language models has markedly enhanced the understanding of short videos (typically under one minute), and several evaluation datasets have emerged accordingly.
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Next-qa: Next phase of question-answering to explaining temporal actions
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Cogagent: A visual language model for gui agents
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Mmbench: Is your multi-modal model an all-around player?
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Video-chatgpt: Towards detailed video understanding via large vision and language models
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Perception test: A diagnostic benchmark for multimodal video models
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Timechat: A time-sensitive multimodal large language model for long video understanding
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Moviechat: From dense token to sparse memory for long video understanding
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Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context
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Qwen2-vl: Enhancing vision-language model’s perception of the world at any resolution
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Longvideobench: A benchmark for long-context interleaved video-language understanding
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Pllava: Parameter-free llava extension from images to videos for video dense captioning
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Cogvlm: Visual expert for pretrained language models
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Sigmoid loss for language image pre-training
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Video-mme: The first-ever comprehensive evaluation benchmark of multi-modal llms in video analysis
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Cogvlm2: Visual language models for image and video understanding
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Llava-onevision: Easy visual task transfer
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Egoschema: A diagnostic benchmark for very long-form video language understanding
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Llava-next: A strong zero-shot video understanding model, 2024
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Mr. video:” mapreduce” is the principle for long video understanding
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Adaretake: Adaptive redundancy reduction to perceive longer for video-language understanding
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Videollama 3: Frontier multimodal foundation models for image and video understanding
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