StreamingVLM: Real-Time Vision-Language Model for Infinite Video Stream Processing
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Summary
StreamingVLM is a new vision-language model designed for real-time understanding of infinite video streams, addressing the computational challenges of processing long videos. The model uses a unified framework that maintains a compact KV cache by reusing attention states, recent vision tokens, and recent text tokens. It achieves real-time performance at up to 8 FPS on a single NVIDIA H100 and outperforms GPT-4O mini on the new Inf-Streams-Eval benchmark with videos averaging over two hours. The approach also enhances general visual question answering abilities without VQA-specific fine-tuning.
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Processing entire videos with full attention leads to quadratic computational costs and poor performance on long videos.
StreamingVLM achieves a 66.18% win rate against GPT-4O mini and maintains stable, real-time performance at up to 8 FPS on a single NVIDIA H100.
Our SFT strategy also enhances general VQA abilities without any VQA-specific fine-tuning, improving performance on LongVideoBench by +4.30 and OVOBench Realtime by +5.96.
Vision-language models (VLMs) could power real-time assistants and autonomous agents, but they face a critical challenge: understanding near-infinite video streams without escalating latency and memory usage. Processing entire videos with full attention l
