Temporal Reasoning Transfer from Text to Video

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06166v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 16:10:29 GMT
• Title: Temporal Reasoning Transfer from Text to Video
• Authors: Lei Li, Yuanxin Liu, Linli Yao, Peiyuan Zhang, Chenxin An, Lean Wang, Xu Sun, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu,
• Abstract summary: Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) struggle with tracking temporal changes and reasoning about temporal relationships. We introduce the Textual Temporal reasoning Transfer (T3) to transfer temporal reasoning abilities from text to video domains. LongVA-7B model achieves competitive performance on comprehensive video benchmarks.
• Score: 51.68487044397409
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in video comprehension, yet they struggle with tracking temporal changes and reasoning about temporal relationships. While previous research attributed this limitation to the ineffective temporal encoding of visual inputs, our diagnostic study reveals that video representations contain sufficient information for even small probing classifiers to achieve perfect accuracy. Surprisingly, we find that the key bottleneck in Video LLMs' temporal reasoning capability stems from the underlying LLM's inherent difficulty with temporal concepts, as evidenced by poor performance on textual temporal question-answering tasks. Building on this discovery, we introduce the Textual Temporal reasoning Transfer (T3). T3 synthesizes diverse temporal reasoning tasks in pure text format from existing image-text datasets, addressing the scarcity of video samples with complex temporal scenarios. Remarkably, without using any video data, T3 enhances LongVA-7B's temporal understanding, yielding a 5.3 absolute accuracy improvement on the challenging TempCompass benchmark, which enables our model to outperform ShareGPT4Video-8B trained on 28,000 video samples. Additionally, the enhanced LongVA-7B model achieves competitive performance on comprehensive video benchmarks. For example, it achieves a 49.7 accuracy on the Temporal Reasoning task of Video-MME, surpassing powerful large-scale models such as InternVL-Chat-V1.5-20B and VILA1.5-40B. Further analysis reveals a strong correlation between textual and video temporal task performance, validating the efficacy of transferring temporal reasoning abilities from text to video domains.

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