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Oct 2026
Video Encoders Built on Image Representations
The design of a video encoder determines when frames begin to interact and which frame-specific visual evidence remains accessible to the language model. Native video pathways couple neighboring frames during visual encoding, whereas image pathways preserve independently computed frame representations but incur a much...
Jusheng Zhang, Wen-Hao Wang, Long-Qi Cai et al.
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