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arxiv: 2512.21334 · v2 · submitted 2025-12-24 · 💻 cs.CV

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Streaming Video Instruction Tuning

Jiaer Xia , Peixian Chen , Mengdan Zhang , Xing Sun , Kaiyang Zhou
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keywords streaming videoinstruction tuningvideo LLMreal-time video understandingmultimodal assistanttemporal reasoning
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Training on a 465K streaming video instruction dataset produces a unified real-time video LLM capable of narration, action understanding, and timed question answering.

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The paper introduces Streamo, a streaming video large language model designed as a general interactive assistant. It is trained end-to-end on Streamo-Instruct-465K, a dataset with diverse temporal contexts and multi-task supervision for streaming video tasks. This enables the model to perform real-time narration, action understanding, event captioning, temporal grounding, and time-sensitive QA. The approach aims to bridge offline video perception models with real-time multimodal assistants by providing broad generalization across streaming benchmarks.

Core claim

Streamo, after end-to-end training on the instruction-following dataset through a streamlined pipeline, exhibits strong temporal reasoning, responsive interaction, and broad generalization across a variety of streaming benchmarks, bridging the gap between offline video perception models and real-time multimodal assistants.

What carries the argument

The Streamo-Instruct-465K dataset, which covers diverse temporal contexts and multi-task supervision for unified training across heterogeneous streaming tasks.

If this is right

  • Streamo can perform real-time narration in continuous video streams.
  • It handles action understanding and event captioning without task-specific fine-tuning.
  • The model achieves temporal event grounding and time-sensitive question answering.
  • Unified training leads to responsive interaction in streaming scenarios.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Such models could extend to live video applications like surveillance or interactive education.
  • End-to-end training might reduce the need for separate modules in video AI systems.
  • Generalization across benchmarks suggests potential for zero-shot adaptation to new streaming tasks.

Load-bearing premise

Constructing a large-scale instruction-following dataset with diverse temporal contexts and multi-task supervision will produce unified capabilities across heterogeneous streaming tasks without task-specific fine-tuning or architectural changes.

What would settle it

A test where Streamo is evaluated on a streaming video task not covered in the 465K dataset and fails to generalize comparably to task-specific models.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.21334 by Jiaer Xia, Kaiyang Zhou, Mengdan Zhang, Peixian Chen, Xing Sun.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: An example of multi-task annotation in Streamo-Instruct-465K. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The format of a multi-turn dialogue. SYSTEM PROMPT USER <0s-1s><video> ASSISTANT <Silence> USER <1s-2s><video> Notify me when the light turns green. ASSISTANT <Silence> USER <2s-3s><video> ASSISTANT <Silence> USER <3s-4s><video> ASSISTANT <Standby> USER <4s-5s><video> ASSISTANT <Response> The light just turned green. t0 tn What is the man doing? Streamo <Silence> <Silence> … … <Standby> <Response> He is sw… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Streamo’s architecture. Streaming video data is organized into an interleaved, multi-turn dialogue struc￾ture that directly integrates a response-state token into the data sequence, enabling end-to-end parallel training. while <Response> tokens are sparse. This imbalance biases the model toward remaining silent, making it difficult to learn response timing. To mitigate this, we apply focal weighting [Lin e… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Dataset distribution overview. Left: task distribution; Right: video duration distribution. 4 Streamo-Instruct-465K 4.1 Data Construction To provide clear supervision for each round of response decisions, we re-annotated a large-scale training set with detailed temporal boundary labels based on the existing open-source video datasets. We prede￾fined multiple tasks spanning different response granularities,… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Streamo-Bench example illustrating multi-task instruction-following evaluation. The video shown in this example is sourced from COIN [39]. 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of Streamo’s outputs. We present the results of Streamo processing the same video under different task instructions and distinguish them using different colors, including TSQA, Narration, and Caption. Arrows indicate the frames corresponding to the response moment. The video shown in this example is sourced from COIN [39]. 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: This is a continuation of the previous figure, showing the results for the same video. The video shown in this example is sourced from COIN [39]. 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_7.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

We present Streamo, a real-time streaming video LLM that serves as a general-purpose interactive assistant. Unlike existing online video models that focus narrowly on question answering or captioning, Streamo performs a broad spectrum of streaming video tasks, including real-time narration, action understanding, event captioning, temporal event grounding, and time-sensitive question answering. To develop such versatility, we construct Streamo-Instruct-465K, a large-scale instruction-following dataset tailored for streaming video understanding. The dataset covers diverse temporal contexts and multi-task supervision, enabling unified training across heterogeneous streaming tasks. After training end-to-end on the instruction-following dataset through a streamlined pipeline, Streamo exhibits strong temporal reasoning, responsive interaction, and broad generalization across a variety of streaming benchmarks. Extensive experiments show that Streamo bridges the gap between offline video perception models and real-time multimodal assistants, making a step toward unified, intelligent video understanding in continuous video streams.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Streamo, a real-time streaming video LLM designed as a general-purpose interactive assistant. It constructs the Streamo-Instruct-465K instruction-following dataset covering diverse temporal contexts and multi-task supervision, then trains the model end-to-end via a streamlined pipeline. The central claim is that this yields unified capabilities for real-time narration, action understanding, event captioning, temporal event grounding, and time-sensitive QA, with strong temporal reasoning, responsive interaction, and generalization across streaming benchmarks, thereby bridging offline video perception models and real-time multimodal assistants.

Significance. If the quantitative results and ablations hold, the work would be significant for demonstrating that a single end-to-end trained model can handle heterogeneous streaming video tasks without task-specific architectures or fine-tuning, advancing toward unified real-time video understanding systems.

major comments (2)
  1. [Experiments] Experiments section: the manuscript provides no ablations isolating the effect of joint multi-task training on Streamo-Instruct-465K versus single-task training or task-specific fine-tuning. This directly undermines the central claim that multi-task supervision alone induces shared temporal representations sufficient for strong performance across all listed tasks simultaneously, as negative transfer or task interference cannot be ruled out.
  2. [§4 and §5] §4 (method) and §5 (experiments): no per-task metrics are reported for the unified model compared against specialized variants, nor are baseline comparisons or quantitative results (e.g., accuracy, F1, or latency) supplied for the claimed generalization across streaming benchmarks. Without these, the assertion of 'strong temporal reasoning' and 'broad generalization' cannot be verified.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the summary of results lacks any numerical metrics, dataset statistics beyond the 465K figure, or specific benchmark names, making it difficult to assess the strength of the claims at first reading.
  2. [Dataset] Dataset construction: clarify the exact procedure for ensuring temporal diversity and avoiding leakage between training and evaluation splits in Streamo-Instruct-465K.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments on our manuscript. We agree that additional ablations and per-task quantitative metrics would strengthen the presentation of our multi-task training results and generalization claims. We will revise the experiments section accordingly to address these points.

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  1. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: the manuscript provides no ablations isolating the effect of joint multi-task training on Streamo-Instruct-465K versus single-task training or task-specific fine-tuning. This directly undermines the central claim that multi-task supervision alone induces shared temporal representations sufficient for strong performance across all listed tasks simultaneously, as negative transfer or task interference cannot be ruled out.

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of such ablations for rigorously supporting the central claim. The current manuscript reports results from the jointly trained model but does not include explicit comparisons to single-task or task-specific variants. In the revised version, we will add these ablations in §5 using controlled subsets of Streamo-Instruct-465K, demonstrating performance gains from joint training and confirming the absence of negative transfer across the heterogeneous tasks. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4 and §5] §4 (method) and §5 (experiments): no per-task metrics are reported for the unified model compared against specialized variants, nor are baseline comparisons or quantitative results (e.g., accuracy, F1, or latency) supplied for the claimed generalization across streaming benchmarks. Without these, the assertion of 'strong temporal reasoning' and 'broad generalization' cannot be verified.

    Authors: We agree that detailed per-task metrics and baseline comparisons are necessary to fully verify the claims. The manuscript currently presents aggregate results and qualitative examples. We will expand §5 to report per-task metrics (accuracy, F1, latency) for the unified Streamo model against specialized fine-tuned variants on each streaming benchmark, providing quantitative evidence for temporal reasoning and generalization. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical pipeline from dataset construction to benchmark evaluation

full rationale

The paper constructs Streamo-Instruct-465K, trains end-to-end, and reports generalization on streaming benchmarks. This is a standard empirical ML workflow with no self-definitional equations, no fitted parameters renamed as predictions, and no load-bearing self-citations that reduce the central claim to prior author work. The assertion that multi-task supervision yields unified temporal reasoning is presented as an experimental outcome rather than a definitional identity, making the derivation self-contained against external benchmarks.

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The abstract provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the central claims rest on the existence and effectiveness of the custom dataset and end-to-end training process.

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