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Holmes-VAU: Towards Long-term Video Anomaly Understanding at Any Granularity
T0 review · 3 major / 4 minor · reviewed 2026-08-11 · deepseek-v4-flash
Pith's one-line read The paper argues that hierarchical clip, event, and video annotations let a single model both localize and explain anomalies across time scales.
desk verdict HIVAU-70k is a genuinely useful hierarchical anomaly-understanding benchmark; the paper's detection and reasoning evaluations do not support the headline claims as currently written. read the letter →
The pith
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
The reading
What carries the argument
The load-bearing object is the Anomaly-focused Temporal Sampler (ATS): a two-part module that combines an anomaly scorer with a density-aware sampler. The scorer, following the UR-DMU architecture, maps each frame's class token to an anomaly score; the sampler treats those scores as a probability mass, accumulates them along time as $S_{\text{cumsum}}(t)=\sum_{i=1}^{t}(s_i+\tau)$, and uniformly samples $N$ points on the cumulative axis to choose which frames enter the language model. The $\tau$ term keeps a floor on uniform coverage, so sampling clusters around anomaly-rich moments without discarding context. The other load-bearing piece is the annotation engine: manual event segmentation followed by recursive LLM summarization from clip captions to event summaries to video summaries, which yields the Judgment, Description, and Analysis instruction data. Together they let a fixed 2B visual-language model spend its visual tokens where anomalies actually occur and learn to verbalize judgments at any timescale.
What would settle it
Re-annotate a random sample of the videos with an independent team that marks event boundaries and checks whether the existing summaries correctly describe the anomalies; if inter-annotator agreement on boundaries is low, or if the LLM summaries frequently conflict with independent event descriptions, then both the training signal and the reasoning-test ground truth are unreliable. Separately, a controlled test with long videos containing two well-separated anomaly events can show whether ATS misses the second event after concentrating on the first at an equal frame budget.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
The central claim is that anomaly comprehension improves when a model is trained and evaluated at three temporal granularities at once: short clips, anomaly events, and whole videos. The paper constructs this hierarchy automatically at scale by having humans mark event boundaries, using a video captioning model for clips, and then asking an LLM to recursively summarize clip captions into event summaries and event summaries into video summaries, with manual checking. The second claim is that the frame budget of a video-language model should be allocated by anomaly content: ATS treats anomaly scores as a temporal distribution, forms a cumulative sum, and samples frames by an inverse-transform-like mapping, so more frames land where anomaly scores are high. In experiments, training on the full hierarchy outperforms training on any single granularity, and ATS beats uniform and top-K sampling at equal frame counts. The paper reports an AP of 87.68% on XD-Violence, an AUC of 88.96% on UCF-Crime, and substantially higher BLEU, CIDEr, METEOR, and ROUGE scores than general video-language baselines on its 3,300-item reasoning test set.
Load-bearing premise
The benchmark's value depends on the manual event-boundary labels and the LLM-written summaries being accurate and consistent enough to serve both as frame-level training supervision for the anomaly scorer and as ground truth for evaluating anomaly reasoning.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- The full hierarchy becomes the training recipe: clip data supplies perception, event data supplies anomaly judgment, and video data supplies long-range analysis; dropping any level lowers measured reasoning quality.
- With sixteen sampled frames, the ATS-equipped model beats uniform and top-K sampling at the same visual-token budget, so long-video anomaly reasoning can be run with far fewer frames than dense sampling requires.
- Because the anomaly scorer is trained on HIVAU-70k's event boundaries, it can serve as a standalone frame-level detector; the paper reports it outperforms weakly-supervised baselines on UCF-Crime and XD-Violence.
- The released benchmark lets other groups fine-tune video-language models on hierarchical anomaly instructions without repeating the annotation pipeline.
Reading between the lines
- The cumulative-sum sampler is inverse-transform sampling over the frame salience distribution; making the scorer differentiable and training the sampler end-to-end with the language model is a natural next step.
- ATS could transfer to other long-video tasks that have a relevance score, such as action localization, highlight detection, or question-guided retrieval.
- Because the reasoning ground truth is LLM-generated and only lightly checked, the reported BLEU and CIDEr gaps may partly reward lexical similarity to those summaries; a human-preference or factual-consistency probe would test whether the reasoning gains are real.
- Replacing manual event segmentation with a segmentation model and human verification of boundaries could scale the same engine to more anomaly classes and domains at lower cost.
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Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. The paper introduces HIVAU-70k, a hierarchical video anomaly understanding benchmark with clip-, event-, and video-level annotations, built from UCF-Crime and XD-Violence using a semi-automated pipeline that combines manual event-boundary labeling with LLM-generated summaries. The paper also proposes Holmes-VAU, a multimodal LLM pipeline with an Anomaly-focused Temporal Sampler (ATS) that scores frames with a trained anomaly scorer and non-uniformly samples frames for the LLM. Experiments report state-of-the-art detection results on UCF-Crime and XD-Violence, large gains over general MLLMs on the new reasoning test set, and ablations supporting the ATS and hierarchical instruction data.
Significance. If properly validated, HIVAU-70k would be a valuable community resource: it is large, publicly released, and addresses a real gap by providing multi-granular anomaly annotations. The ATS idea, using anomaly scores to guide temporal sampling for a VLM, is also interesting and could transfer to other long-video understanding tasks. However, the current evidence for the two headline claims ('outperforms traditional methods' and 'hierarchical instruction data markedly improves anomaly comprehension') is weakened by a supervision confound in the detection comparison and by a self-consistent evaluation protocol for reasoning. The paper would be significantly strengthened by controlled experiments that separate the contribution of the extra frame-level supervision from the contribution of the ATS/VLM.
major comments (3)
- [Table 1 / Sec 4.3 / Eq. (5)] The detection comparison is not apples-to-apples. Holmes-VAU's anomaly scorer is initialized from UR-DMU and trained with frame-level labels derived from manual event boundaries using binary cross-entropy (Eq. 5), whereas all non-explainable baselines in Table 1 are unsupervised or weakly supervised with only video-level labels. The reported gains (87.68 AP on XD-Violence, 88.96 AUC on UCF-Crime) could therefore be due entirely to the added frame-level supervision. I recommend adding a fully supervised baseline, most naturally UR-DMU trained with the same frame-level labels and the same visual features, and/or a weakly supervised variant of the proposed scorer. Without such a control, the abstract's claim that the integrated ATS and visual-language model outperform traditional methods is not established.
- [Sec 5.1 / Sec 3.2 / Table 2] The reasoning evaluation is strongly self-referential. The test ground-truth text is generated with the same LLM pipeline (LLaMA3-70B summaries built from clip captions with the same prompt templates) that produced the instruction-tuning data, and the model is fine-tuned to imitate that style. Under this protocol, high BLEU/CIDEr scores may reflect style mimicry rather than anomaly comprehension. The manual review described in Sec 5.1 does not remove this bias, since the underlying text and its style are inherited from the annotation engine. Please add an evaluation on independently written human annotations, a human preference study, or an existing external anomaly reasoning benchmark; also consider reporting judgment accuracy as a binary classification metric rather than only lexical overlap.
- [Table 4 / Sec 5.3] The efficiency and accuracy claims for ATS are only partially supported. In Table 4, latency values are reported only for Uniform sampling; the Top-K and ATS rows have empty latency cells, so the paper does not demonstrate that ATS is more efficient than the alternatives. In addition, the accuracy comparison is limited to video-level BLEU and CIDEr on the authors' own test set; no detection metrics (AUC/AP) are reported for different samplers, even though detection is a central claim of the paper. Please report latency for all samplers and, if detection is claimed to improve, the corresponding detection results.
minor comments (4)
- [Sec 3.2] Typo: 'off-the-shell' should be 'off-the-shelf'.
- [Table 3] The checkmark alignment in Table 3 is hard to read; the table would be clearer if each row explicitly listed the included granularities (e.g., 'C only', 'E only', 'C+E') rather than leaving the reader to infer them from the checkmark columns.
- [Fig. 6] Figure 6(a) shows loss curves but the axes labels are minimal ('iter' and 'loss'), and Figure 6(b) does not report the numerical values for Video-MME; please provide the exact scores so readers can judge the trade-off quantitatively.
- [Sec 3.3 / Supp. A.2] The annotation quality control is described qualitatively ('manual checking', 'carefully reviewed'), but no inter-annotator agreement or consistency statistics are reported. Even a small-scale agreement study on event boundaries and summary correctness would increase confidence in the benchmark.
Circularity Check
Detection comparison is confounded by frame-level supervision, and the reasoning benchmark shares its LLM annotation pipeline with the training data, producing partial circularity; the ATS and hierarchical-data ablations remain internally controlled.
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fitted input called prediction
[Sec. 4.3 (Eq. 5), Sec. 5.1 (Detection metric), Sec. 5.2 (Table 1)]
"In the first step, we use the video data and annotated frame-level label (ˆy ∈ RT) from HIVAU-70k to train the anomaly scorer, which provides more accurate anomaly supervision compared to previous unsupervised and weakly-supervised methods. ... For anomaly detection, we use the anomaly scores output by the Anomaly Scorer as the prediction and perform the evaluation."
The anomaly scorer is UR-DMU trained with binary cross-entropy (Eq. 5) on frame-level labels derived from manual event boundaries in HIVAU-70k. Table 1 then reports this scorer's AP/AUC as 'Holmes-VAU (Ours)' and uses it to support the claim that the integrated ATS and VLM outperform traditional methods. The baselines (RTFM, S3R, UR-DMU, VadCLIP, etc.) are weakly supervised or unsupervised and never receive frame-level labels. The reported gains (87.68 AP on XD-Violence, 88.96 AUC on UCF-Crime) are therefore attributable to the added frame-level supervision, not to ATS or the VLM.
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self definitional
[Sec. 5.1 (Reasoning test set), Sec. 4.3 (Instruction tuning), Sec. A.2 (Event/Video Summary prompts)]
"For anomaly reasoning, we annotate instruction data from the UCF-Crime and XD-Violence test sets, which have been carefully reviewed and filtered by annotators. ... Event Summary. We combined all captions and video-level category labels to generate anomaly-related summaries for each event using an LLM."
The instruction-tuning targets are all HIVAU-70k instruction data produced by the recursive LLM summarization pipeline (LLaMA3-70B with the A.2 prompts, then manual review). The test references for anomaly reasoning are generated by the same pipeline on the test videos and only lightly human-filtered. The model is trained to maximize p(Xa|Xins) on the former and scored by BLEU/CIDEr/METEOR/ROUGE against the latter. Thus the 'anomaly comprehension' metric measures how well the model reproduces the annotation LLM's output distribution, not an independently established ground truth. The evaluation target is self-defined by the same process that generated the training signal, so the large reasoning gains are partly circular; human checking does not remove the shared generative pipeline.
full rationale
The paper contains genuinely independent empirical content: the ATS ablation in Table 4 compares ATS against Uniform and Top-K sampling under identical supervision, and the hierarchical-data ablation in Table 3 varies training granularities with the same evaluation protocol. Detection is evaluated on the external UCF-Crime and XD-Violence test splits, so it is not a pure self-benchmark. However, the headline claim that the integrated ATS and VLM outperform traditional methods rests on Table 1, where the anomaly scorer is trained with frame-level labels while the baselines use weaker supervision; that comparison is confounded and cannot isolate the contribution of ATS or the VLM. Separately, the reasoning benchmark and the training set are produced by the same LLM annotation engine, so the reported reasoning improvements partly reflect distribution matching to that engine rather than independently verified anomaly understanding. There is no load-bearing self-citation or imported uniqueness theorem; the issues are evaluation-loop and supervision-confound circularity rather than derivation-by-definition. Overall, partial circularity warrants a score of 4.
Assumptions & free parameters
free parameters (5)
- tau (sampling uniformity) =
0.1
- Number of sampled frames N =
16
- LoRA rank r =
64
- Anomaly scorer learning rate =
1e-4
- Instruction tuning learning rate =
4e-5
assumptions (4)
- domain assumption Anomalous frames contain more information and exhibit greater variation than normal frames
- domain assumption LLaVA-Next-Video provides sufficiently accurate clip-level captions
- domain assumption LLaMA3-70B summarization produces reliable event and video summaries after manual checking
- domain assumption The manual event boundaries from five annotators are correct and consistent
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Pith. "Pith review of Holmes-VAU: Towards Long-term Video Anomaly Understanding at Any Granularity." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/UFOUKWYK
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How can we enable models to comprehend video anomalies occurring over varying temporal scales and contexts? Traditional Video Anomaly Understanding (VAU) methods focus on frame-level anomaly prediction, often missing the interpretability of complex and diverse real-world anomalies. Recent multimodal approaches leverage visual and textual data but lack hierarchical annotations that capture both short-term and long-term anomalies. To address this challenge, we introduce HIVAU-70k, a large-scale benchmark for hierarchical video anomaly understanding across any granularity. We develop a semi-automated annotation engine that efficiently scales high-quality annotations by combining manual video segmentation with recursive free-text annotation using large language models (LLMs). This results in over 70,000 multi-granular annotations organized at clip-level, event-level, and video-level segments. For efficient anomaly detection in long videos, we propose the Anomaly-focused Temporal Sampler (ATS). ATS integrates an anomaly scorer with a density-aware sampler to adaptively select frames based on anomaly scores, ensuring that the multimodal LLM concentrates on anomaly-rich regions, which significantly enhances both efficiency and accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our hierarchical instruction data markedly improves anomaly comprehension. The integrated ATS and visual-language model outperform traditional methods in processing long videos. Our benchmark and model are publicly available at https://github.com/pipixin321/HolmesVAU.
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”Describe the video briefly.”
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”Describe the main events that take place in this video.”
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”Give a short description of the video.”
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”What happened in this video?”
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”Briefly describe the main subjects and their actions in the video.”
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”Describe the sequence of events involving the main subjects in the video.”
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”What activities happen throughout the video?”
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”Describe the main subjects and their roles in the video.”
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”What key moments stand out in the video?”
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”What are the primary activities showcased in the video?”
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”What happens to the main subjects as the video progresses?”
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”What is a brief overview of what happens in the video?”
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”Describe the main subjects and their contributions to the video.”
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”Describe the key events in the video.”
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”Describe the video’s main activities.”
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”Can you describe the main action in this video briefly?”
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”Describe the video clip concisely.”
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”Provide a brief description of the given video clip.”
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”Summarize the visual content of the video clip.”
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”Give a short and clear explanation of the subsequent video clip.” Judgement
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”What types of anomalies are shown in the video clip?”
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”Are there any anomaly events detected in the video?”
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”Identify any abnormal behaviors depicted in the video.”
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”Determine whether there are anomaly events in the video and the specific name of the anomaly.”
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”What anomalies can be identified in the video?”
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”What categories of anomalies can be found in the video?”
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”Could you point out any abnormal actions in the video?”
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”Are there anomalies observed in the video clip?” Description
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”Describe the anomaly events observed in the video.”
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”Could you describe the anomaly events observed in the video?”
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”Could you specify the anomaly events present in the video?”
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”Give a description of the detected anomaly events in this video.”
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”Could you give a description of the anomaly events in the video?”
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”Provide a summary of the anomaly events in the video.”
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”Could you provide a summary of the anomaly events in this video?””
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”What details can you provide about the anomaly in the video?”
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”How would you detail the anomaly events found in the video?”
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”How would you describe the particular anomaly events in the video?” Analysis
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”Why do you judge this event to be anomalous?”
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”Can you provide the reasons for considering it anomalous?”
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”Can you give the basis for your judgment of this event as an anomaly?”
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”What led you to classify this event as an anomaly?”
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”Could you provide the reasons for considering this event as abnormal?”
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”What evidence do you have to support your judgment of this event as an anomaly?”
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”Can you analyze the factors contributing to this anomalous event?”
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”Could you share your analysis of the anomalous event?”
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”What patterns did you observe that contributed to your conclusion about this event being an anomaly?”
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”How do the characteristics of this event support its classification as an anomaly?” A.4. Data Samples. To facilitate understanding, we provide the final constructed instruction data at various temporal granularities, including clip-level, event-level, and video-level, as show...
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