Spatio-Temporal LLM: Reasoning about Environments and Actions

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Autores principales: Zheng, Haozhen, Tian, Beitong, Wu, Mingyuan, Tang, Zhenggang, Nahrstedt, Klara, Schwing, Alex
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Publicado: 2025
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author Zheng, Haozhen
Tian, Beitong
Wu, Mingyuan
Tang, Zhenggang
Nahrstedt, Klara
Schwing, Alex
author_facet Zheng, Haozhen
Tian, Beitong
Wu, Mingyuan
Tang, Zhenggang
Nahrstedt, Klara
Schwing, Alex
contents Despite significant recent progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), current MLLMs are challenged by "spatio-temporal" prompts, i.e., prompts that refer to 1) the entirety of an environment encoded in a point cloud that the MLLM should consider; and simultaneously also refer to 2) actions that happened in part of the environment and are encoded in a short ego-centric video clip. However, such a holistic spatio-temporal understanding is important for agents operating in the real world. To address this challenge, we first develop a framework to collect a large-scale dataset. Using the collected "Reasoning about Environments and Actions" (REA) dataset, we show that recent MLLMs indeed struggle to correctly answer "spatio-temporal" prompts. Building on this dataset, we study two spatio-temporal LLM (STLLM) baselines: 1) STLLM-3D, which directly fuses point cloud, video, and text representations as inputs to the LLM; and 2) STLLM-Aligner, which aligns spatial context with video and text before LLM decoding. Both baselines aim to enhance spatial understanding of environments and temporal grounding of egocentric observations. On REA, the STLLM baselines outperform existing models, demonstrating the effectiveness of our designs. Code and data are available at https://zoezheng126.github.io/STLLM-website/.
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Zheng, Haozhen
Tian, Beitong
Wu, Mingyuan
Tang, Zhenggang
Nahrstedt, Klara
Schwing, Alex
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Despite significant recent progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), current MLLMs are challenged by "spatio-temporal" prompts, i.e., prompts that refer to 1) the entirety of an environment encoded in a point cloud that the MLLM should consider; and simultaneously also refer to 2) actions that happened in part of the environment and are encoded in a short ego-centric video clip. However, such a holistic spatio-temporal understanding is important for agents operating in the real world. To address this challenge, we first develop a framework to collect a large-scale dataset. Using the collected "Reasoning about Environments and Actions" (REA) dataset, we show that recent MLLMs indeed struggle to correctly answer "spatio-temporal" prompts. Building on this dataset, we study two spatio-temporal LLM (STLLM) baselines: 1) STLLM-3D, which directly fuses point cloud, video, and text representations as inputs to the LLM; and 2) STLLM-Aligner, which aligns spatial context with video and text before LLM decoding. Both baselines aim to enhance spatial understanding of environments and temporal grounding of egocentric observations. On REA, the STLLM baselines outperform existing models, demonstrating the effectiveness of our designs. Code and data are available at https://zoezheng126.github.io/STLLM-website/.
title Spatio-Temporal LLM: Reasoning about Environments and Actions
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05258