Researchers from China Develop Advanced Compression and Learning Techniques to process  Long-Context Videos at 100 Times Less Compute

Researchers from China Develop Advanced Compression and Learning Techniques to process  Long-Context Videos at 100 Times Less Compute

Advanced Video Processing with AI

Revolutionizing Long-Context Video Modeling

One of the major advancements in AI is the ability to understand long videos, such as movies and live streams. However, challenges remain in grasping the context of these lengthy videos.

Current Challenges

While there have been improvements in generating captions and answering questions about videos, processing very long videos is still difficult. Key issues include:
– Understanding the context in long videos.
– Efficiency in training and inference due to lengthy multimodal contexts.
– Redundant information from video frames complicating model learning.

Innovative Solutions

Researchers from Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology have introduced two key methods to tackle these challenges:

1. **Hierarchical Video Token Compression (HiCo)**:
– This method compresses video data efficiently to reduce computation while keeping important information intact.
– It organizes long videos into shorter clips, focusing on reducing redundancies in video data.
– HiCo enhances the model’s ability to link compressed tokens with user queries.

2. **VideoChat-Flash**:
– This system uses a multi-stage learning approach, starting with short videos and gradually moving to longer ones.
– It includes a massive dataset of 300,000 hours of videos with extensive annotations to train the model effectively.

New Benchmark for Video Understanding

A novel task called “multi-hop needle in a video haystack” has been introduced to improve how models locate and understand sequences of images in videos. This task challenges models to find interconnected images using context clues.

Results and Achievements

The proposed methods resulted in:
– Up to 100 times less computational cost.
– Outstanding performance on both short and long video benchmarks.
– Achievements in accuracy, including 99.1% on over 10,000 frames in the new benchmark.

Conclusion

The introduction of HiCo and VideoChat-Flash significantly enhances the processing of long-context videos while improving accuracy. This research sets a new standard in the field of video understanding.

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