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Detector-Empowered Video Large Language Model for Efficient Spatio-Temporal Grounding

Shida Gao , Feng Xue , Xiangfeng Wang , Anlong Ming , Zhaowen Lin , Haiyang Zhang , Teng Long , Nicu Sebe
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keywords spatio-temporal video groundingmultimodal large language modelsvideo object localizationdetector integrationtemporal consistencyefficient inference
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DEViL distills queries into detector tokens to ground video objects efficiently in one pass.

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The paper tries to establish that video multimodal large language models can handle spatio-temporal grounding without the usual efficiency costs by handing dense spatial work to a separate detector. Existing approaches either decode coordinates that scale poorly with longer time spans or first generate many tube candidates at high cost before the model selects among them. DEViL instead converts the user query into a single reference-semantic token that replaces the detector's normal text input, allowing the detector to localize the target in parallel, then adds regularization to keep the same object coherent from frame to frame. A sympathetic reader would care because this keeps the LLM's broad reasoning intact while making fine-grained video localization practical for longer clips.

Core claim

DEViL distills the query into a detector-compatible reference-semantic token that replaces the detector's text embedding, enabling spatial grounding in a single forward pass, and adds temporal consistency regularization to match and maintain object coherence across frames.

What carries the argument

The reference-semantic token that replaces the detector's text embedding to drive query-specific spatial localization in one parallel pass.

If this is right

  • Strong performance of 43.1 percent m_vIoU on the HC-STVG benchmark.
  • Superior efficiency reaching 14.33 frames per second.
  • Preservation of the underlying MLLM backbone's general reasoning capacity.
  • Avoidance of linear growth in decoding cost as temporal span increases and avoidance of heavy candidate construction pipelines.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same query-distillation step could be tested on image-based referring localization tasks to see if the detector offload improves speed there too.
  • Hybrid systems like this may allow video models to run on lower-power hardware by limiting the LLM to high-level steps.
  • Extending the approach to multi-object queries would require checking whether multiple reference tokens can be handled without interference.

Load-bearing premise

That distilling the query into a detector-compatible reference-semantic token enables accurate spatial grounding in a single forward pass and that temporal consistency regularization maintains object coherence across frames without further tuning.

What would settle it

Measuring whether object identity remains consistent across frames in videos with fast motion or frequent occlusions would directly test if the regularization alone suffices.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.06673 by Anlong Ming, Feng Xue, Haiyang Zhang, Haozhe Wang, Nicu Sebe, Shida Gao, Teng Long, Wei Wang, Xiangfeng Wang, Yihua Shao, Zhaowen Lin.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparing LLaVA-ST [36] and DEViL. (a) The mean IoU between predicted and ground-truth boxes (miOP) across the ground-truth interval. (b) Structure of LLaVA-ST. (c) Structure of our method, DEViL. For each video on VidSTG [79], we evenly split the ground-truth segment into 5 parts and compute miOP on each part, producing 5 points along the x-axis (1/5 to 5/5). Long￾sequence suffer from error accumulation a… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overall architecture of DEViL. Given a video and query, the MLLM encodes them and emits a special [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Attention and detection comparison between the [BOX]-induced RST/text feature and image features (red: w/ TTReg; green: w/o). TTReg keeps attention and boxes on the target, while removing it causes scattered attention and jitter. Grounding DINO (yellow boxes) instead uses text–image atten￾tion that focuses on a distractor. frames, causing the OVD’s per-frame object queries to drift and leading to unreliabl… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparison between LLaVA-ST and DEViL. For each example, the first row green shows LLaVA-ST’s predic￾tions, while the second row red shows those of DEViL. TTReg Modules HC-STVG v1 HC-STVG v2 GTM CFR m tIoU m vIoU m tIoU m vIoU ✗ ✗ 53.3 35.5 57.4 35.8 ✓ ✗ 54.4 35.8 57.6 36.1 ✗ ✓ 54.9 35.6 57.9 35.5 ✓ ✓ 54.7 36.2 58.0 36.5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Auto-labeling process used to translate temporal video grounding datasets to spatio-temporal video grounding datasets. higher-order correlations, the probability that the whole tex￾tualized box sequence is error-free satisfies P [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative examples of image referring expression comprehension: given a natural-language query, our model predicts the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative examples of spatio-temporal video grounding: given a natural-language query, our model predicts both the time span [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative examples of spatial video grounding: given a natural-language query, our model predicts the frame-wise spatial [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Qualitative examples of temporal video grounding: given a language description, the model returns the start and end times of the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative examples of grounded video question answering: given a natural-language question, our model first produces an [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Qualitative examples of multi-turn video conversation: our agent supports free-form descriptions, follow-up questions, and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_11.png] view at source ↗
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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly expanding from general video understanding to finer-grained understanding such as spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) and reasoning. In these tasks, an MLLM must localize the user-queried target in time and space and take the results as evidence for reasoning. Existing MLLM methods mainly follow two paradigms: (1) Direct Localization, which outputs STVG results with extra alignment modules or specialized decoders; and (2) Candidate-based Selection, which first constructs tube-level candidates and then selects the relevant one by an MLLM. However, both suffer from a serious efficiency bottleneck: the former incurs linearly growing decoding cost as the queried temporal span increases, while the latter relies on costly candidate construction. To break this bottleneck, we propose DEViL, a detector-empowered Video-LLM with a simple key idea: offloading dense spatial grounding from the MLLM to a fully parallelizable, well-trained detector. Specifically, DEViL distills the query into a detector-compatible reference-semantic token, which replaces the detector's text embedding to enable spatial grounding in a single pass. Then, we design temporal consistency regularization to match objects across frames and enforce their coherence over time. In this way, DEViL avoids long coordinate decoding and heavy candidate pipelines. Extensive experiments show that DEViL achieves strong performance (43.1% m_vIoU on HC-STVG) with superior efficiency (14.33 FPS), while preserving the general reasoning capacity of the MLLM backbone.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes DEViL, a detector-empowered Video-LLM for efficient spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG). It offloads dense spatial grounding from the MLLM to a pre-trained detector by distilling the user query into a single reference-semantic token that replaces the detector's text embedding, enabling spatial localization in one forward pass; temporal consistency regularization is added to enforce object coherence across frames. The method claims to avoid the linear decoding cost of direct localization and the heavy candidate construction of selection-based approaches, reporting 43.1% m_vIoU on HC-STVG at 14.33 FPS while preserving the backbone MLLM's general reasoning capacity.

Significance. If the distillation and regularization mechanisms prove robust, the work could meaningfully advance efficient fine-grained video understanding by showing how fixed, parallelizable detectors can be integrated with MLLMs without sacrificing accuracy or generality. The reported FPS gain and single-pass design address a clear practical bottleneck; reproducible code or parameter-free derivations would further strengthen its contribution.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (method): the central claim that replacing the detector's text embedding with a distilled reference-semantic token enables accurate single-pass spatial grounding lacks any loss formulation, derivation, or ablation isolating this substitution; without these, it is impossible to verify whether the token faithfully encodes complex or ambiguous queries for the fixed detector.
  2. [§4] §4 (experiments): the headline 43.1% m_vIoU and 14.33 FPS are reported without baselines, ablations, error bars, or analysis of how temporal consistency regularization affects the final metric; this leaves the efficiency advantage and the sufficiency of regularization for cross-frame coherence difficult to evaluate.
  3. [§3.2] §3.2 (temporal regularization): the assumption that matching objects across frames via the proposed regularization alone maintains coherence without further tuning or additional losses is load-bearing for the overall efficiency claim, yet no quantitative isolation of its contribution is provided.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Clarify the precise architecture of the reference-semantic token (e.g., dimension, injection point into the detector) and any modifications to the detector backbone.
  2. [§4] Add a short table comparing DEViL against recent STVG methods on both accuracy and speed metrics for direct context.

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive comments on our work. We address each of the major comments below and outline the revisions we plan to make to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (method): the central claim that replacing the detector's text embedding with a distilled reference-semantic token enables accurate single-pass spatial grounding lacks any loss formulation, derivation, or ablation isolating this substitution; without these, it is impossible to verify whether the token faithfully encodes complex or ambiguous queries for the fixed detector.

    Authors: We appreciate this observation. Section 3.1 details the distillation of the query into the reference-semantic token by aligning the MLLM's output with the detector's text embedding space through a learned projection. While the manuscript describes the overall architecture, we acknowledge that an explicit loss formulation and a dedicated ablation were not included. In the revised manuscript, we will add the mathematical formulation of the distillation loss and provide an ablation study that isolates the contribution of the reference-semantic token substitution, including tests on complex and ambiguous queries. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (experiments): the headline 43.1% m_vIoU and 14.33 FPS are reported without baselines, ablations, error bars, or analysis of how temporal consistency regularization affects the final metric; this leaves the efficiency advantage and the sufficiency of regularization for cross-frame coherence difficult to evaluate.

    Authors: We note that the experimental section includes comparisons to existing methods and reports the efficiency metrics. However, to fully address the referee's concern, we will expand Section 4 with additional baseline comparisons, more comprehensive ablations, error bars from multiple runs, and a specific analysis quantifying the impact of the temporal consistency regularization on the m_vIoU and coherence metrics. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (temporal regularization): the assumption that matching objects across frames via the proposed regularization alone maintains coherence without further tuning or additional losses is load-bearing for the overall efficiency claim, yet no quantitative isolation of its contribution is provided.

    Authors: We agree that isolating the contribution of the temporal consistency regularization is important for validating the efficiency claim. In the current manuscript, Section 3.2 describes the regularization term designed to enforce object coherence by matching features across frames. We will add quantitative results in the revised experiments section that ablate the regularization term, showing its effect on cross-frame coherence and overall performance without requiring additional losses or extensive tuning. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces DEViL as a new method that distills queries into reference-semantic tokens for a fixed detector and adds temporal consistency regularization. These are presented as engineering contributions rather than derived predictions. Performance metrics such as 43.1% m_vIoU on HC-STVG are measured on an external benchmark, not obtained by fitting parameters to the target quantity and then re-predicting it. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or load-bearing claims reduce by construction to self-citations or prior results from the same authors. The derivation chain consists of standard components (MLLM backbone, off-the-shelf detector) plus explicitly new modules whose validity is assessed empirically outside the paper's own fitted values.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

The approach rests on the assumption that a pre-trained detector can be effectively repurposed for query-specific grounding via token replacement and that temporal coherence can be enforced with a simple regularization term; these are domain assumptions rather than derived results.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption A well-trained object detector can perform accurate spatial grounding when its text embedding is replaced by an MLLM-derived reference-semantic token
    This is the central mechanism that allows single-pass grounding instead of LLM decoding or candidate selection.
  • domain assumption Temporal consistency regularization can enforce object coherence across frames without introducing new errors or requiring per-video tuning
    Invoked to handle the video aspect after the detector produces per-frame boxes.
invented entities (1)
  • reference-semantic token no independent evidence
    purpose: Serves as a query-specific replacement for the detector's standard text embedding to enable direct spatial grounding
    New component introduced to bridge the MLLM query with the detector input.

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