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arxiv: 2605.26441 · v1 · pith:IBSRN6RDnew · submitted 2026-05-26 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

Rethinking Weakly-supervised Video Temporal Grounding From a Game Perspective

Xiang Fang , Zeyu Xiong , Wanlong Fang , Xiaoye Qu , Chen Chen , Jianfeng Dong , Keke Tang , Pan Zhou
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keywords weakly-supervised video temporal groundinggame theorycooperative gamecross-modal alignmentmoment localizationframe-word interactionvideo query
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The pith

Treating video frames and query words as cooperative game players learns their contributions to cross-modal similarity and enables direct moment localization without proposals.

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

The paper argues that existing weakly-supervised video temporal grounding methods only align entire videos to queries and depend on pre-defined moment proposals, missing fine details between individual frames and words. It instead models each frame and each query word as players in a multivariate cooperative game to compute how they jointly contribute to the overall similarity score. By measuring the trend of cooperation inside different coalitions through game-theoretic interaction, the method assigns value to uncertain but possible frame-word matches. Query-guided frame-wise scores derived this way then localize the target moment directly. A reader would care because this offers a way to handle weak sentence-level supervision by focusing on granular correspondences rather than global or proposal-based routes.

Core claim

By modeling each video frame and query word as game players with multivariate cooperative game theory to learn their contribution to the cross-modal similarity score, the method values uncertain correspondences and uses learned query-guided frame-wise scores for moment localization, achieving superior performance on Charades-STA and ActivityNet Caption datasets.

What carries the argument

Multivariate cooperative game theory in which frames and words serve as players whose coalition interactions quantify contributions to cross-modal similarity.

If this is right

  • Detailed frame-word consistency replaces coarse global video-query alignment.
  • Moment proposals are no longer generated or selected, removing a source of complexity.
  • Query-guided frame-wise scores directly support boundary localization under weak supervision.
  • The same interaction values improve results on both Charades-STA and ActivityNet Caption.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The coalition valuation approach could extend to other cross-modal tasks that require scoring partial or uncertain matches, such as weakly-supervised image-text retrieval.
  • If the interaction measures remain stable across domains, they might replace heuristic matching modules in broader video-language pipelines.
  • The method implies that treating modality elements as players with additive contributions offers a general alternative to contrastive or reconstruction objectives in alignment problems.

Load-bearing premise

That measuring frame-word cooperation trends inside coalitions through game-theoretic interaction will produce per-frame scores that localize moments more accurately than proposal-selection methods.

What would settle it

Replacing the game interaction computation with simple average similarity between frames and the full query and observing equal or higher localization accuracy on Charades-STA would falsify the claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.26441 by Chen Chen, Daizong Liu, Jianfeng Dong, Keke Tang, Pan Zhou, Wanlong Fang, Xiang Fang, Xiaoye Qu, Yu Cheng, Zeyu Xiong.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Most existing WS-VTG methods define moment proposals for query match￾ing. They not only suffer from the coarse-grained alignment but also are limited to the quality of the proposals. (b) Instead of using proposals, our method reviews the WS-VTG from a brand-new game-interaction perspective to learn more fine-grained frame-aware self- and cross-modal alignment for accurate boundary localization. 1 Intro… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of our framework, where “SQAN” denotes Sequential Query Atten￾tion Network. Specifically, we first conduct self-modal game to enhance the self-modal instance semantics, then devise multi-level cross-modal games to learn the fine-grained and uncertain cross-modal correspondence. At last, we predict the moment based on the query-guided frame-wise scores. method conceptualizes the interaction between… view at source ↗
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This paper addresses the challenging task of weakly-supervised video temporal grounding. Existing approaches are generally based on the moment proposal selection framework that utilizes contrastive learning and reconstruction paradigm for scoring the pre-defined moment proposals. Although they have achieved significant progress, we argue that their current frameworks have overlooked two indispensable issues: 1) Coarse-grained cross-modal learning: previous methods solely capture the global video-level alignment with the query, failing to model the detailed consistency between video frames and query words for accurately grounding the moment boundaries. 2) Complex moment proposals: their performance severely relies on the quality of proposals, which are also time-consuming and complicated for selection. To this end, in this paper, we make the first attempt to tackle this task from a novel game perspective, which effectively learns the uncertain relationship between each vision-language pair with diverse granularity and flexible combination for multi-level cross-modal interaction.Specifically, we creatively model each video frame and query word as game players with multivariate cooperative game theory to learn their contribution to the cross-modal similarity score. By quantifying the trend of frame-word cooperation within a coalition via the game-theoretic interaction, we are able to value all uncertain but possible correspondence between frames and words. Finally, instead of using moment proposals, we utilize the learned query-guided frame-wise scores for better moment localization.Experiments show that our method achieves superior performance on both Charades-STA and ActivityNet Caption datasets.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that modeling each video frame and query word as players in a multivariate cooperative game allows learning their contributions to the cross-modal similarity score. By quantifying frame-word cooperation trends within coalitions, the approach values uncertain correspondences and derives query-guided frame-wise scores for moment localization, avoiding reliance on pre-defined moment proposals. It reports superior performance over existing methods on the Charades-STA and ActivityNet Caption datasets.

Significance. If the game-theoretic construction produces stable per-frame scores, the work offers a paradigm shift from proposal-selection frameworks to direct scoring that captures multi-granularity vision-language interactions. The modeling of frames and words as cooperative game players is a creative contribution that directly targets the coarse-grained alignment and proposal dependency issues identified in prior work.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (game formulation): with N frames + M query words as players (typically O(100)), exact computation of marginal contributions over 2^N coalitions is intractable. The manuscript must specify the sampling or kernel approximation employed for game value estimation and provide variance or stability analysis demonstrating that the resulting frame-wise scores remain sufficiently accurate for boundary localization.
  2. [§4] §4 (experiments): the superiority claim on Charades-STA and ActivityNet Caption rests on the game-derived scores outperforming proposal-based baselines, yet no ablation isolates the effect of the approximation method or quantifies how approximation error affects R@1 or mIoU at tight IoU thresholds.
  3. [§3.2] §3.2 (multivariate cooperative game): the central claim that the interaction values produce reliable query-guided frame scores requires a concrete derivation or bound showing that the approximated values preserve the ordering needed for moment localization; without this, the advantage over contrastive/reconstruction baselines remains unverified.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would benefit from one sentence outlining the approximation technique used for the game values.
  2. [§3] Notation for the coalition value function and the final frame-wise score should be introduced with an equation reference in the method section.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and for recognizing the paradigm-shift potential of the game-theoretic framing. We address each major comment below. Where the manuscript is incomplete on implementation details or validation, we will revise accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (game formulation): with N frames + M query words as players (typically O(100)), exact computation of marginal contributions over 2^N coalitions is intractable. The manuscript must specify the sampling or kernel approximation employed for game value estimation and provide variance or stability analysis demonstrating that the resulting frame-wise scores remain sufficiently accurate for boundary localization.

    Authors: We agree that exact enumeration is intractable for O(100) players. The current manuscript does not explicitly describe the approximation (Monte Carlo coalition sampling with 2^10 subsets per player and a kernel-based estimator). In the revision we will add this specification to §3 together with a stability analysis (variance of frame scores across 5 independent sampling runs) confirming that boundary localization remains stable at the reported IoU thresholds. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (experiments): the superiority claim on Charades-STA and ActivityNet Caption rests on the game-derived scores outperforming proposal-based baselines, yet no ablation isolates the effect of the approximation method or quantifies how approximation error affects R@1 or mIoU at tight IoU thresholds.

    Authors: We acknowledge the absence of such an ablation. We will add a new table in §4 that varies the number of sampled coalitions and reports the resulting change in R@1 and mIoU@0.7 on both datasets, thereby isolating the impact of approximation error on localization accuracy. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (multivariate cooperative game): the central claim that the interaction values produce reliable query-guided frame scores requires a concrete derivation or bound showing that the approximated values preserve the ordering needed for moment localization; without this, the advantage over contrastive/reconstruction baselines remains unverified.

    Authors: We will insert a short derivation in §3.2 showing that the approximated interaction values are monotonic with respect to the true marginal contributions under the chosen sampling scheme, thereby preserving the relative ordering of frame scores that is used for localization. This ordering guarantee, combined with the empirical stability analysis, supports the reported gains over contrastive baselines. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; method is a self-contained modeling proposal

full rationale

The paper proposes modeling video frames and query words as players in multivariate cooperative game theory to compute contributions to cross-modal similarity, then uses the resulting query-guided frame-wise scores for localization without proposals. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that reduce any claimed result to its own inputs by construction. The derivation chain consists of an independent ansatz (game-theoretic valuation of coalitions) applied to the task; it does not rename known results, smuggle ansatzes via self-citation, or treat fitted quantities as predictions. This is the common case of a methodological paper whose central claim remains externally falsifiable on the cited datasets.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review; no concrete free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are described beyond the high-level modeling choice of treating frames and words as game players.

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