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HAS: Highlight-guided Attention Steering for Multimodal LLM Video Summarization

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arXiv

arxiv.org/abs/2607.17994v1

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The paper proposes a new method called Highlight-guided Attention Steering (HAS) for video summarization using Multimodal Large Language Models (M-LLMs). HAS aims to enhance the understanding of videos by focusing attention on important frames and reducing the loss of information. The method involves finding a continuous frame-level highlight distribution globally and applying it as an attention steering vector during model inference.

What the Document Says

  • The paper discusses video summarization using Multimodal Large Language Models (M-LLMs).
  • Video summarization is important for efficient navigation and retrieval.
  • Existing approaches to video summarization focus on selected key frames and correlated segment captions but overlook the importance of treating frames globally.
  • The paper argues that using discrete selected frames reduces understanding coherence, loses information, and wastes MLLMs' capacity.
  • HAS, the proposed method, consists of two parts: finding a continuous frame-level highlight distribution and applying it as an attention steering vector.
  • In the challenging setting of continuous videos with highlight guidance, HAS puts more attention on important frames during model inference.

Key Concepts Mentioned

  • Video Summarization
  • Multimodal Large Language Models (M-LLMs)
  • Highlight-guided Attention Steering
  • Frame-level highlight distribution
  • Attention steering vector

Claims Made by the Document

  • Existing video summarization methods overlook the global perspective of frames.
  • Using discrete selected frames reduces understanding coherence and loses information.
  • HAS improves understanding of videos by focusing on important frames.

Evidence Used

  • The paper argues that existing approaches overlook the importance of treating frames globally.
  • The paper describes HAS as a method to put more attention on highlighted frames.

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Raw Abstract / Excerpt

Video understanding has become more and more important with the growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for video generation. Recently, Multimodal Large Language Model(M-LLM) has shown its capability in video understanding. Video summarization, a specific domain of video understanding, has proven its importance for efficient navigation and retrieval. Both video understanding and video summarization require a good selection of key frames in a video. Current video summarization methods heavily focus on the selected key frames and correlated segment captions. However, existing approaches overlook the perspective of treating the importance of the frames globally. We argue that using discrete selected frames for summarization will not only reduce the understanding coherence, but also lost important information in the video, as well as wasting the original capacity of the MLLMs. In this paper, we propose HAS, a Highlight-guided Attention Steering method for video summarization. We consider a challenging but practical setting where the video given to MLLMs for summarize should be continuous but with highlight guidance. HAS mainly consists of two parts: The first part is to find a continuous frame-level highlight distribution for the video globally. The second part is to apply the highlight distribution as an attention steering vector for the MLLM, targeting a better understanding of the video, and thus during the model inference time, putting more attention on the highlighted frames, while avoiding lost entire information on less highlighted frames through putting less attention instead of forgetting them. We evaluated HAS on a variety of benchmarks, and it has shown convincing performance in video summarization.