Retrieval-based Video Language Model for Efficient Long Video Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04931v1
• Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 09:48:36 GMT
• Title: Retrieval-based Video Language Model for Efficient Long Video Question Answering
• Authors: Jiaqi Xu, Cuiling Lan, Wenxuan Xie, Xuejin Chen, Yan Lu
• Abstract summary: We introduce a retrieval-based video language model (R-VLM) for efficient and interpretable long video QA. Specifically, given a question (query) and a long video, our model identifies and selects the most relevant $K$ video chunks. Our experimental results validate the effectiveness of our framework for comprehending long videos.
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• Abstract: The remarkable natural language understanding, reasoning, and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have made them attractive for application to video question answering (Video QA) tasks, utilizing video tokens as contextual input. However, employing LLMs for long video understanding presents significant challenges and remains under-explored. The extensive number of video tokens leads to considerable computational costs for LLMs while using aggregated tokens results in loss of vision details. Moreover, the presence of abundant question-irrelevant tokens introduces noise to the video QA process. To address these issues, we introduce a simple yet effective retrieval-based video language model (R-VLM) for efficient and interpretable long video QA. Specifically, given a question (query) and a long video, our model identifies and selects the most relevant $K$ video chunks and uses their associated visual tokens to serve as context for the LLM inference. This effectively reduces the number of video tokens, eliminates noise interference, and enhances system performance. Our experimental results validate the effectiveness of our framework for comprehending long videos. Furthermore, based on the retrieved chunks, our model is interpretable that provides the justifications on where we get the answers.

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