VideoRouter: Query-Adaptive Dual Routing for Efficient Long-Video Understanding

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Autori principali: Lin, Kuanwei, Zhang, Wenhao, Li, Ge
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author Lin, Kuanwei
Zhang, Wenhao
Li, Ge
author_facet Lin, Kuanwei
Zhang, Wenhao
Li, Ge
contents Video large multimodal models increasingly face a scalability bottleneck: long videos produce excessively long visual-token sequences, which sharply increase memory and latency during inference. While existing compression methods are effective in specific settings, most are either weakly query-aware or apply a fixed compression policy across frames, proving suboptimal when visual evidence is unevenly distributed over time. To address this, we present VideoRouter, a query-adaptive dual-router framework built on InternVL for budgeted evidence allocation. The Semantic Router predicts the dominant allocation policy, choosing between broad temporal coverage and adaptive high-resolution preservation, while the Image Router uses early LLM layers to score frame relevance. This enables aggressive compression on less relevant frames while preserving detail on critical evidence frames. To train both routers, we build Video-QTR-10K for allocation-policy supervision and Video-FLR-200K for frame-relevance supervision. Experiments on VideoMME, MLVU, and LongVideoBench show that VideoRouter consistently improves over the InternVL baseline under comparable or lower budgets, achieving up to a 67.9% token reduction.
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spellingShingle VideoRouter: Query-Adaptive Dual Routing for Efficient Long-Video Understanding
Lin, Kuanwei
Zhang, Wenhao
Li, Ge
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Video large multimodal models increasingly face a scalability bottleneck: long videos produce excessively long visual-token sequences, which sharply increase memory and latency during inference. While existing compression methods are effective in specific settings, most are either weakly query-aware or apply a fixed compression policy across frames, proving suboptimal when visual evidence is unevenly distributed over time. To address this, we present VideoRouter, a query-adaptive dual-router framework built on InternVL for budgeted evidence allocation. The Semantic Router predicts the dominant allocation policy, choosing between broad temporal coverage and adaptive high-resolution preservation, while the Image Router uses early LLM layers to score frame relevance. This enables aggressive compression on less relevant frames while preserving detail on critical evidence frames. To train both routers, we build Video-QTR-10K for allocation-policy supervision and Video-FLR-200K for frame-relevance supervision. Experiments on VideoMME, MLVU, and LongVideoBench show that VideoRouter consistently improves over the InternVL baseline under comparable or lower budgets, achieving up to a 67.9% token reduction.
title VideoRouter: Query-Adaptive Dual Routing for Efficient Long-Video Understanding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05848