GazeQwen: Lightweight Gaze-Conditioned LLM Modulation for Streaming Video Understanding

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Autori principali: Pham, Trong Thang, Nguyen, Hien, Le, Ngan
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author Pham, Trong Thang
Nguyen, Hien
Le, Ngan
author_facet Pham, Trong Thang
Nguyen, Hien
Le, Ngan
contents Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) cannot effectively utilize eye-gaze information for video understanding, even when gaze cues are supplied via visual overlays or text descriptions. We introduce GazeQwen, a parameter efficient approach that equips an open-source MLLM with gaze awareness through hidden-state modulation. At its core is a compact gaze resampler (~1-5 M trainable parameters) that encodes V-JEPA 2.1 video features together with fixation-derived positional encodings and produces additive residuals injected into selected LLM decoder layers via forward hooks. An optional second training stage adds low-rank adapters (LoRA) to the LLM for tighter integration. Evaluated on all 10 tasks of the StreamGaze benchmark, GazeQwen reaches 63.9% accuracy, a +16.1 point gain over the same Qwen2.5-VL-7B backbone with gaze as visual prompts and +10.5 points over GPT-4o, the highest score among all open-source and proprietary models tested. These results suggest that learning where to inject gaze within an LLM is more effective than scaling model size or engineering better prompts. All code and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/phamtrongthang123/gazeqwen .
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spellingShingle GazeQwen: Lightweight Gaze-Conditioned LLM Modulation for Streaming Video Understanding
Pham, Trong Thang
Nguyen, Hien
Le, Ngan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) cannot effectively utilize eye-gaze information for video understanding, even when gaze cues are supplied via visual overlays or text descriptions. We introduce GazeQwen, a parameter efficient approach that equips an open-source MLLM with gaze awareness through hidden-state modulation. At its core is a compact gaze resampler (~1-5 M trainable parameters) that encodes V-JEPA 2.1 video features together with fixation-derived positional encodings and produces additive residuals injected into selected LLM decoder layers via forward hooks. An optional second training stage adds low-rank adapters (LoRA) to the LLM for tighter integration. Evaluated on all 10 tasks of the StreamGaze benchmark, GazeQwen reaches 63.9% accuracy, a +16.1 point gain over the same Qwen2.5-VL-7B backbone with gaze as visual prompts and +10.5 points over GPT-4o, the highest score among all open-source and proprietary models tested. These results suggest that learning where to inject gaze within an LLM is more effective than scaling model size or engineering better prompts. All code and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/phamtrongthang123/gazeqwen .
title GazeQwen: Lightweight Gaze-Conditioned LLM Modulation for Streaming Video Understanding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25841