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Ivan Laptev

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Preprint Oct 2026

From Cause to Effect: Generating Intermediate Event Chains in Videos

Video-Language Models (VLMs) excel at visual recognition but struggle with causal reasoning. Current evaluations are flawed: multiple-choice QA allows shortcuts, and open-ended QA lacks robust automatic evaluation. We introduce Causal Chain Generation (CCG), a novel task where models have to generate the sequence of in...

R. Ghermi, Vicky Kalogeiton, Ivan Laptev · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Oct 2026

Omni-Embed-Mini: Binding Modalities Without Forgetting via Dense Distillation

This work presents Omni-Embed-Mini, a 0.9B-parameter model that maps text, speech, audio, images, video, and visually-rich documents into a single shared cosine space without updating any text-side parameter, and is competitive with the closed gemini-embedding-2, edging ahead of it on the overall-modality average.

Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Jaseel Muhammad Kaithakkodan, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly et al. · 0 citations

Long Story Short: Story-level Video Understanding from 20K Short Films

This work proposes Short-Films 20K (SF20K), the largest publicly available movie dataset, and accompanies this dataset with SF20K-Test, a manual, open-ended question answering benchmark, showing that instruction tuning on the large-scale dataset substantially improves model performance.

Ridouane Ghermi, Xi Wang, Vicky Kalogeiton et al. · 11 citations · ⚡1

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