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arxiv: 2606.20559 · v1 · pith:HUCCEV2Hnew · submitted 2026-06-18 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.LG

UNIEGO: Proxies as Mediators for Unified Egocentric Video Representation Learning

Wenhao Chi , Arkaprava Sinha , Dominick Reilly , Hieu Le , Srijan Das This is my paper

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keywords egocentric videoknowledge distillationmulti-teacher distillationaction recognitionvideo retrievalaction segmentationproxy modelsego-exo benchmarks
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The pith

Proxy models translate knowledge from nine heterogeneous teachers into a unified egocentric video encoder that outperforms direct distillation.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents a hierarchical distillation method to build one egocentric video encoder that incorporates knowledge from multiple viewpoints, modalities, and foundation models. Instead of distilling straight from incompatible teachers, the approach inserts representation-specific proxy models that first convert each teacher's signals into a shared egocentric space. A selective stage then distills only from the proxies that are both correct and confident on each sample, and the student begins training from a convex combination of the proxy weights. This produces stronger results than naive multi-teacher baselines on action recognition, retrieval, and segmentation across ego-exo benchmarks.

Core claim

A unified egocentric encoder can be trained by first mapping nine teachers spanning ego-exo views, RGB, depth, skeleton, and foundation models into representation-specific proxy models that create a homogeneous space, then applying selective proxy distillation that retains only reliable signals per sample, with the student initialized as a learned convex combination of the proxies; this structured mediation yields richer egocentric representations than direct multi-teacher distillation.

What carries the argument

Representation-specific Proxy models that convert heterogeneous teacher knowledge into a homogeneous egocentric space, paired with Selective Proxy Distillation that adaptively keeps only correct and confident signals.

If this is right

  • UNIEGO exceeds naive multi-teacher distillation on action recognition, video retrieval, and action segmentation across three ego-exo benchmarks.
  • The two-stage proxy mediation followed by selective distillation produces more discriminative egocentric features than unmediated transfer.
  • Initializing the student as a convex combination of proxy parameters places the optimization in a better-conditioned region of the loss landscape.
  • The framework remains deployable from egocentric video alone while subsuming complementary knowledge from exo, depth, skeleton, and foundation-model sources.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The proxy-mediation pattern could be applied to other multi-source distillation settings where direct fusion produces gradient conflicts.
  • Selective per-sample filtering may reduce sensitivity to the choice or quality of individual teachers in large-scale distillation.
  • If the convex-combination initialization proves critical, similar warm-start strategies might stabilize other multi-teacher training regimes.

Load-bearing premise

The proxy models can convert knowledge from teachers with different architectures and feature geometries into a single homogeneous space without substantial distortion or conflicting gradients.

What would settle it

An experiment in which direct distillation from the same nine teachers without any proxy layer produces equal or higher accuracy than the full UNIEGO pipeline on the three reported benchmarks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.20559 by Arkaprava Sinha, Dominick Reilly, Hieu Le, Srijan Das, Wenhao Chi.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Naive multi-teacher distillation with heterogeneous teachers for learning unified egocentric representations results in representational gaps and conflicting gradients, as illustrated in (b). (c) In contrast, our proposed UNIEGO adopts a hierarchical distillation framework that mitigates these limitations through proxy-mediated learning, as shown in (d). Black dashed arrows illustrate the effects of th… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of UNIEGO. UNIEGO learns a unified egocentric encoder through a two￾level proxy-mediated distillation framework. In Level-I (left), heterogeneous teachers spanning viewpoints, modalities, and foundation representations independently supervise egocentric proxy models, converting diverse teacher signals into a homogeneous proxy space. In Level-II (right), the proxy parameters are first merged to ini… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Teacher vs Proxy Centered Kernel Alignment scores Conflict Rate (%) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Epoch 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 All Proxy Distillation Direct Multimodal Distillation Selective Proxy Distillation (Top 1) Selective Proxy Distillation (Top 3) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Selective Proxy Distillation Statistics [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_6.png] view at source ↗
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Egocentric video understanding is inherently limited by the narrow perspective of wearable cameras: a single viewpoint, a single modality, a single model cannot capture the full richness of human action. We argue that a truly expressive egocentric representation must subsume complementary knowledge across viewpoints, modalities, and foundation model representations, yet remain deployable from egocentric video alone. To this end, we introduce a hierarchical multi-teacher distillation framework that produces UNIEGO, a unified egocentric encoder trained with nine teachers spanning ego-exo viewpoints, RGB, depth, and skeleton modalities, and four foundation models. Rather than distilling directly from heterogeneous teachers whose incompatible architectures and feature geometries induce conflicting gradients, our framework interposes a layer of representation-specific Proxy models that translate diverse teacher knowledge into a homogeneous egocentric space. A second distillation stage, Selective Proxy Distillation (SPD), then adaptively selects, for each training sample, the subset of proxies that are both correct and confident, distilling exclusively from reliable supervision and suppressing erroneous signals. SPD is further stabilized by initializing UNIEGO as a learned convex combination of proxy parameters, placing the unified model in a well-conditioned region of the loss landscape before distillation begins. UNIEGO achieves state-of-the-art performance across three egocentric video understanding tasks - action recognition, video retrieval, and action segmentation on three challenging ego-exo benchmarks, outperforming naive multi-teacher distillation baselines and demonstrating that structured, proxy-mediated knowledge transfer yields richer and more discriminative egocentric representations.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces UNIEGO, a unified egocentric video encoder trained via hierarchical multi-teacher distillation from nine teachers spanning ego-exo viewpoints, RGB/depth/skeleton modalities, and four foundation models. Representation-specific Proxy models first translate the heterogeneous teacher knowledge into a homogeneous egocentric space; Selective Proxy Distillation (SPD) then adaptively selects per-sample reliable and confident proxy signals while suppressing erroneous ones. The unified model is initialized as a learned convex combination of the proxy parameters. The paper claims this yields state-of-the-art performance on action recognition, video retrieval, and action segmentation across three ego-exo benchmarks, outperforming naive multi-teacher distillation baselines.

Significance. If the empirical superiority holds and the proxy-mediated transfer demonstrably avoids distortion, the work would offer a practical route to richer egocentric representations that remain deployable from single-view video alone. The two-stage structure with selective per-sample distillation and convex initialization provides a concrete mechanism for managing heterogeneous supervision that could generalize beyond the reported benchmarks.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that UNIEGO achieves SOTA performance and outperforms naive multi-teacher distillation is asserted without any reported metrics, dataset identifiers, ablation numbers, or error analysis, so the performance advantage cannot be evaluated from the provided text.
  2. [Abstract] Proxy-model and SPD description (abstract): the claim that structured proxy-mediated transfer yields richer representations rests on the untested premise that the representation-specific Proxies map heterogeneous teachers into homogeneous space without substantial distortion or conflicting gradients; no alignment, reconstruction-error, or gradient-norm evidence is supplied to support this load-bearing assumption.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would be clearer if it named the three ego-exo benchmarks and the nine teachers explicitly rather than describing them generically.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on the abstract. We address the two major comments below and will incorporate revisions to strengthen the presentation of results and supporting analyses.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that UNIEGO achieves SOTA performance and outperforms naive multi-teacher distillation is asserted without any reported metrics, dataset identifiers, ablation numbers, or error analysis, so the performance advantage cannot be evaluated from the provided text.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be more informative with quantitative support. The full manuscript contains tables reporting exact metrics (e.g., top-1 accuracy on Ego4D, EPIC-Kitchens, and Charades-Ego), dataset names, and ablation results comparing UNIEGO to naive multi-teacher distillation. In the revised manuscript we will condense the key numbers, dataset identifiers, and a reference to the ablation study into the abstract. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Proxy-model and SPD description (abstract): the claim that structured proxy-mediated transfer yields richer representations rests on the untested premise that the representation-specific Proxies map heterogeneous teachers into homogeneous space without substantial distortion or conflicting gradients; no alignment, reconstruction-error, or gradient-norm evidence is supplied to support this load-bearing assumption.

    Authors: The manuscript demonstrates the practical benefit of the proxy layer through consistent gains over direct multi-teacher distillation and through selective-distillation ablations. We acknowledge, however, that direct measurements of proxy-teacher alignment, reconstruction error, or per-layer gradient norms are not reported. We will add these analyses (feature cosine similarity, reconstruction MSE, and gradient-norm statistics) to the revised experimental section to provide explicit support for the homogeneity assumption. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical training procedure with external benchmark validation

full rationale

The paper presents a hierarchical multi-teacher distillation method using representation-specific Proxy models followed by Selective Proxy Distillation (SPD) to train UNIEGO. All claims rest on reported empirical performance gains across action recognition, retrieval, and segmentation tasks on ego-exo benchmarks, compared against naive multi-teacher baselines. No equations, self-definitional constructs, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text; the derivation chain consists of a standard training pipeline whose outputs are validated externally rather than reducing to its own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

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axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Knowledge distillation from heterogeneous teachers is feasible once feature geometries are aligned via intermediate proxies.
    The entire pipeline presupposes that proxy translation preserves useful supervisory signal.
invented entities (1)
  • Proxy models no independent evidence
    purpose: Translate diverse teacher representations into a homogeneous egocentric space.
    New components introduced by the framework to mediate distillation.

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