Temporal Preference Optimization for Long-Form Video Understanding
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| author | Li, Rui Wang, Xiaohan Zhang, Yuhui Zohar, Orr Wang, Zeyu Yeung-Levy, Serena |
| author_facet | Li, Rui Wang, Xiaohan Zhang, Yuhui Zohar, Orr Wang, Zeyu Yeung-Levy, Serena |
| contents | Despite significant advancements in video large multimodal models (video-LMMs), achieving effective temporal grounding in long-form videos remains a challenge for existing models. To address this limitation, we propose Temporal Preference Optimization (TPO), a novel post-training framework designed to enhance the temporal grounding capabilities of video-LMMs through preference learning. TPO adopts a self-training approach that enables models to differentiate between well-grounded and less accurate temporal responses by leveraging curated preference datasets at two granularities: localized temporal grounding, which focuses on specific video segments, and comprehensive temporal grounding, which captures extended temporal dependencies across entire video sequences. By optimizing on these preference datasets, TPO significantly enhances temporal understanding while reducing reliance on manually annotated data. Extensive experiments on three long-form video understanding benchmarks--LongVideoBench, MLVU, and Video-MME--demonstrate the effectiveness of TPO across two state-of-the-art video-LMMs. Notably, LLaVA-Video-TPO establishes itself as the leading 7B model on the Video-MME benchmark, underscoring the potential of TPO as a scalable and efficient solution for advancing temporal reasoning in long-form video understanding. Project page: https://ruili33.github.io/tpo_website. |
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| spellingShingle | Temporal Preference Optimization for Long-Form Video Understanding Li, Rui Wang, Xiaohan Zhang, Yuhui Zohar, Orr Wang, Zeyu Yeung-Levy, Serena Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Machine Learning Robotics Despite significant advancements in video large multimodal models (video-LMMs), achieving effective temporal grounding in long-form videos remains a challenge for existing models. To address this limitation, we propose Temporal Preference Optimization (TPO), a novel post-training framework designed to enhance the temporal grounding capabilities of video-LMMs through preference learning. TPO adopts a self-training approach that enables models to differentiate between well-grounded and less accurate temporal responses by leveraging curated preference datasets at two granularities: localized temporal grounding, which focuses on specific video segments, and comprehensive temporal grounding, which captures extended temporal dependencies across entire video sequences. By optimizing on these preference datasets, TPO significantly enhances temporal understanding while reducing reliance on manually annotated data. Extensive experiments on three long-form video understanding benchmarks--LongVideoBench, MLVU, and Video-MME--demonstrate the effectiveness of TPO across two state-of-the-art video-LMMs. Notably, LLaVA-Video-TPO establishes itself as the leading 7B model on the Video-MME benchmark, underscoring the potential of TPO as a scalable and efficient solution for advancing temporal reasoning in long-form video understanding. Project page: https://ruili33.github.io/tpo_website. |
| title | Temporal Preference Optimization for Long-Form Video Understanding |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Machine Learning Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13919 |