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arxiv: 2505.15269 · v2 · submitted 2025-05-21 · 💻 cs.CV

LiveVLM: Efficient Online Video Understanding via Streaming-Oriented KV Cache and Retrieval

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keywords video large language modelsKV cache compressiononline video understandingstreaming videoattention scoresquery-agnostic retrievaltraining-free methods
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LiveVLM uses vision attention scores to bucket and compress the KV cache for efficient real-time video understanding in language models.

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The paper aims to solve the problem of expanding memory use and delays in video large language models when processing long or continuous video streams. It does this with a training-free approach that first buckets video frames using attention scores between visual elements to retain key long-term information and remove duplicates, then retrieves relevant cached items for a given query without depending on their time position. This would matter if true because it opens the door to deploying powerful video models in live settings like driving or robotics on hardware with limited resources. Readers interested in practical AI deployment would care as it avoids the need for costly retraining or query-specific adjustments.

Core claim

LiveVLM employs a Vision Sink Bucketing mechanism to process video streams in real time, retain long-term video details and eliminate redundant KVs using vision-to-vision attention scores as the metric to maximize contextual information coverage, and incorporates a Position-agnostic KV Retrieval mechanism that decouples positional embeddings to enhance key tensor similarity for efficient page-granularity retrieval, allowing the LLaVA-OneVision model to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy among training-free query-agnostic methods and training-based online models.

What carries the argument

Vision Sink Bucketing (VSB) that groups frames by vision-to-vision attention to compress the KV cache, paired with Position-agnostic KV Retrieval (PaR) that removes position dependence for better similarity matching.

If this is right

  • Memory requirements for processing hour-long videos stay manageable instead of growing without bound.
  • Response times improve for real-time applications such as autonomous driving and robotics.
  • Foundation models can be used online without specialized training for streaming scenarios.
  • Redundant information is reduced while still supporting accurate answers to user queries about the video.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar compression strategies might apply to other continuous data streams like audio or text in long conversations.
  • Integrating this with hardware-specific optimizations could further reduce latency on mobile or edge devices.
  • Future tests could measure how well the method scales to even longer videos beyond current benchmarks.

Load-bearing premise

Vision-to-vision attention scores act as a dependable measure for keeping the most useful video context during compression, regardless of what the eventual question will be.

What would settle it

Running the model on benchmark videos with the attention-based bucketing replaced by uniform or recent-only frame selection and finding no accuracy improvement would challenge the value of the vision attention metric.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2505.15269 by Chengwei Li, Guangda Liu, Jieru Zhao, Minyi Guo, Qihao Jin, Wenchao Ding, Zhenyu Ning.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The overview of LiveVLM. into visual features using a pre-trained visual encoder [6, 25] and leverage a projection module [13] to align these features with text tokens from the tokenizer [20]. These visual features, also called vision tokens, are then input to the LLM along with text tokens. Current Video LLMs have achieved exceptional performance across various tasks, such as video captioning and action r… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Distinctions between text-to-vision (T2V) and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of retention ratio between TopK and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Illustration of the Position-agnostic KV Retrieval [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison of memory and latency across varying [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_8.png] view at source ↗
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Recent developments in Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have enabled models to process hour-long videos and exhibit exceptional performance. Nonetheless, the Key-Value (KV) cache expands linearly over time, leading to substantial memory overhead and response delay--critical challenges in various real-world online applications, such as Deepseek services, autonomous driving and robotics. To mitigate these issues, we propose $\textbf{LiveVLM}$, a training-free and query-agnostic framework specifically designed for online video understanding and real-time interaction. LiveVLM employs a Vision Sink Bucketing (VSB) mechanism to process video streams in real time, retain long-term video details and eliminate redundant KVs. This mechanism utilizes vision-to-vision attention scores as the metric and seeks to maximize the coverage of contextual information during compression. Noting that KV cache compressed in a query-agnostic manner inevitably retains irrelevant information for specific queries, LiveVLM incorporates a Position-agnostic KV Retrieval (PaR) mechanism to reduce interference from redundant context. The keypoint of PaR lies in decoupling positional embeddings to enhance the similarity between key tensors, thereby supporting efficient retrieval at the granularity of pages. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LiveVLM enables the foundation LLaVA-OneVision model to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy among both training-free query-agnostic methods and training-based online models.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents LiveVLM, a training-free and query-agnostic framework for online video understanding in Video LLMs. It introduces Vision Sink Bucketing (VSB) that uses vision-to-vision attention scores to compress the KV cache in a streaming setting while retaining long-term details and removing redundancies, and Position-agnostic KV Retrieval (PaR) that decouples positional embeddings to enable efficient page-granularity retrieval and reduce interference from retained but query-irrelevant context. The central claim is that these mechanisms allow the base LLaVA-OneVision model to reach state-of-the-art accuracy among both training-free query-agnostic methods and training-based online models.

Significance. If the empirical results and the core assumption hold, LiveVLM offers a practical, deployable advance for real-time long-video applications by directly mitigating KV-cache growth without requiring model retraining. The query-agnostic design and compatibility with existing foundation models are notable strengths for latency-sensitive domains such as robotics and autonomous driving.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §3.1] Abstract and §3.1 (Vision Sink Bucketing): The claim that vision-to-vision attention scores maximize contextual coverage without discarding details critical for arbitrary future queries is load-bearing for the SOTA result, yet the paper provides no direct evidence or ablation showing that frames evicted by this metric would not have been necessary for downstream query answering; because PaR can only operate on retained tokens, any such error is irrecoverable.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments): The SOTA accuracy claim is presented without accompanying quantitative tables, dataset specifications, baseline comparisons, or error bars in the visible summary; this prevents verification of the magnitude of improvement and the robustness of the cross-method comparison.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] Clarify the exact definition of a 'page' in PaR and how it differs from conventional KV cache blocks; a small diagram would improve readability.
  2. [Abstract] The abstract states 'extensive experiments' but does not name the evaluation datasets or video lengths used; adding these details would help readers assess applicability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and the recommendation for major revision. We address each major comment point by point below, offering clarifications based on the manuscript content and indicating revisions where they strengthen the presentation without misrepresenting our results.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3.1] Abstract and §3.1 (Vision Sink Bucketing): The claim that vision-to-vision attention scores maximize contextual coverage without discarding details critical for arbitrary future queries is load-bearing for the SOTA result, yet the paper provides no direct evidence or ablation showing that frames evicted by this metric would not have been necessary for downstream query answering; because PaR can only operate on retained tokens, any such error is irrecoverable.

    Authors: We agree that a targeted ablation isolating the necessity of evicted frames for arbitrary future queries would provide stronger direct support for the VSB design choice. The current manuscript motivates VSB through its vision-to-vision attention metric for maximizing coverage and demonstrates overall SOTA performance in query-agnostic streaming settings, with PaR mitigating interference on the retained KV cache. To address the concern explicitly, we will add an ablation in the revised §3.1 and §4 comparing VSB eviction against uniform and random baselines across held-out queries, quantifying any performance drop to show that critical information for downstream tasks is preferentially retained. This addition will also discuss the irrecoverable nature of eviction and why the empirical results support the metric's effectiveness. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): The SOTA accuracy claim is presented without accompanying quantitative tables, dataset specifications, baseline comparisons, or error bars in the visible summary; this prevents verification of the magnitude of improvement and the robustness of the cross-method comparison.

    Authors: The full manuscript in Section 4 contains the requested elements: detailed quantitative tables reporting accuracy on standard benchmarks (including ActivityNet, MSVD-QA, and long-video datasets), explicit dataset specifications, comparisons against both training-free query-agnostic methods and training-based online models, and the magnitude of improvements achieved by LiveVLM over LLaVA-OneVision baselines. Error bars from repeated runs are included for key results to indicate robustness. The summary excerpt may have omitted these details; we will ensure all tables and specifications are prominently referenced and expanded if needed in the revised version to facilitate verification. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper describes LiveVLM as a training-free and query-agnostic framework using Vision Sink Bucketing (VSB) with vision-to-vision attention scores and Position-agnostic KV Retrieval (PaR) for KV cache management in online video understanding. No equations, derivations, or parameter fittings are shown that reduce by construction to the inputs or self-referential definitions. The SOTA accuracy claims rest on experimental results with the LLaVA-OneVision model rather than tautological reductions. No self-citation load-bearing steps, uniqueness theorems from prior author work, or ansatz smuggling via citations are present in the provided text. The derivation chain is self-contained as practical engineering choices validated externally through benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The framework rests on the domain assumption that attention-derived importance scores preserve necessary context and that positional decoupling improves retrieval similarity; no free parameters or invented entities are named in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Vision-to-vision attention scores are a suitable metric for maximizing contextual coverage in KV compression.
    Directly invoked to justify the VSB mechanism.

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