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arxiv: 2606.24286 · v1 · pith:VTCNL6DYnew · submitted 2026-06-23 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.CV

AVOC: Enhancing Hour-Level Audio-Video Understanding in Omni-Modal LLMs via Retrieval-Inspired Token Compression

Yijing Chen , Wenhui Tan , Xiaoyi Yu , Yuyue Wang , Xin Cheng , Kaisi Guan , Hao Jiang , Xiangyang Li
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keywords token compressionlong-form audio-videomultimodal LLMsinformation retrieval criteriaomni-modal modelsretrieval-inspired selectionhour-scale understanding
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AVOC reframes token compression as top-K retrieval using relevance, importance and diversity to let omni-modal LLMs handle hour-long audio-video inputs.

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

The paper sets out to solve the limits of context windows and heavy redundancy that prevent current omni-modal LLMs from understanding extended audio-video recordings. It introduces a learnable compression module placed between the encoders and the LLM that treats token selection as a retrieval task: given a fixed budget, it must pick the subset of tokens most useful for answering the user's query. The module implements three classical information-retrieval principles—relevance to the query, importance within the input, and diversity across selections—and adapts each to audio-video data. If the approach works, it would allow models to maintain accuracy on long-form tasks while fitting within existing context lengths, directly addressing the practical barrier of hour-scale multimedia analysis.

Core claim

AVOC places a learnable token compression module between the modality encoders and the LLM backbone and recasts multimodal compression as a top-K retrieval problem. The module selects a compact token subset by jointly applying three mechanisms drawn from information retrieval—relevance scoring to the query, importance scoring within the input stream, and diversity enforcement across the selected set—each instantiated for audio-video features. This pipeline is shown to deliver state-of-the-art accuracy on long-form audio-video benchmarks and to preserve performance on needle-in-a-haystack tests at durations reaching one hour.

What carries the argument

The retrieval-style token compression module that scores and selects tokens according to query relevance, input importance, and selection diversity.

If this is right

  • The same compression pipeline supports audio-video inputs up to one hour while keeping accuracy on needle-in-a-haystack retrieval tasks.
  • The method produces higher average accuracy than prior models on the OmniVideoBench and LVOmniBench long-form benchmarks.
  • Redundancy is reduced without requiring changes to the underlying LLM context window or architecture.
  • The three-criterion selection can be inserted as a modular component between any modality encoder and LLM backbone.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same relevance-importance-diversity logic might apply to compressing long text or image sequences in other multimodal settings.
  • Dynamic adjustment of the selection budget according to input length could further reduce compute on shorter clips.
  • The approach implicitly assumes that query-specific selection is always preferable to task-agnostic compression; this could be tested by comparing against fixed compression baselines on open-ended queries.
  • If the criteria prove sufficient, they might serve as a general template for designing compression modules in future omni-modal models.

Load-bearing premise

A learnable module can reliably pick a small subset of tokens that still contains everything needed to answer an arbitrary query even when the original input lasts an hour.

What would settle it

A controlled test on one-hour audio-video clips in which the model systematically fails to answer queries whose critical evidence was discarded by the compression module.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.24286 by Guojie Zhu, Hao Jiang, Kaisi Guan, Ruihua Song, Wenhui Tan, Xiangyang Li, Xiaoyi Yu, Xin Cheng, Yijing Chen, Yuyue Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of context-reduction strategies for long-form audio-video understanding. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of AVOC. The compression module condenses the interleaved video-audio token [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Audio-Video Needle-in-a-Haystack results. Each cell reports retrieval accuracy at a given [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Ablation on modal￾ity token budget ratio [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Extended Audio-Video Needle-in-a-Haystack results across four models. Each row [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗
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Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved remarkable progress in short-form audio-video understanding, yet long-form audio-video comprehension remains challenged by limited context windows and severe information redundancy. To address these bottlenecks, we propose AVOC, a framework for long-form audio-video understanding in Omni-modal Large Language Models. AVOC introduces a learnable token compression module between the modality encoders and the LLM backbone. We reframe multimodal token compression as a top-$K$ retrieval problem: given a fixed context budget, the module must retrieve a compact subset of tokens that best supports answering the user query. We draw inspiration from three classical Information Retrieval criteria for selecting informative units from a large candidate pool: relevance, importance, and diversity. AVOC instantiates each criterion as a tailored mechanism for audio-video understanding, and integrates them into a unified retrieval-style compression pipeline. Experiments show that AVOC achieves state-of-the-art performance on long-form audio-video benchmarks, surpassing the second-best model by 4.9 and 5.5 points in average accuracy on OmniVideoBench and LVOmniBench, respectively. Moreover, AVOC maintains robust performance on Audio-Video Needle-in-a-Haystack task at durations up to one hour.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes AVOC, a learnable token compression module inserted between modality encoders and the LLM backbone for omni-modal models. It reframes compression as a top-K retrieval task drawing on classical IR criteria (relevance, importance, diversity) instantiated for audio-video tokens, and reports that this yields state-of-the-art results on long-form benchmarks: +4.9 points average accuracy on OmniVideoBench and +5.5 points on LVOmniBench over the second-best model, plus maintained performance on Audio-Video Needle-in-a-Haystack tasks up to one-hour duration.

Significance. If the compression module reliably retains query-critical information at hour scale, the result would be a meaningful step toward practical long-context multimodal LLMs. The retrieval framing and the explicit needle-in-a-haystack evaluation at extreme durations are clear strengths that provide a falsifiable test of long-form robustness.

major comments (2)
  1. [§5.2] §5.2 (Audio-Video Needle-in-a-Haystack results): the reported robustness at one-hour duration is measured only under the model's own learned selection policy; no oracle, random, or alternative-selection baselines are provided to test whether query-critical tokens are systematically discarded, leaving the central assumption that the relevance+importance+diversity criteria preserve necessary information unverified.
  2. [§4] §4 (experimental setup): the SOTA margins on OmniVideoBench and LVOmniBench are presented without ablation tables isolating the contribution of each IR criterion or without error analysis across query types, so it is impossible to determine whether the gains reflect general hour-scale fidelity or benchmark-specific retention patterns.
minor comments (1)
  1. [§3] Notation for the three selection scores (relevance, importance, diversity) is introduced in §3 but not consistently subscripted in later equations, making it difficult to trace how they are combined into the final top-K mask.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the two major comments below and will incorporate additional experiments to strengthen the validation of our claims.

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  1. Referee: [§5.2] §5.2 (Audio-Video Needle-in-a-Haystack results): the reported robustness at one-hour duration is measured only under the model's own learned selection policy; no oracle, random, or alternative-selection baselines are provided to test whether query-critical tokens are systematically discarded, leaving the central assumption that the relevance+importance+diversity criteria preserve necessary information unverified.

    Authors: We agree that additional baselines would provide stronger verification of the selection policy. The needle-in-a-haystack task evaluates end-to-end retention under our criteria, but we acknowledge the value of explicit comparisons. In the revised manuscript we will add random-selection and oracle upper-bound baselines on the Audio-Video Needle-in-a-Haystack task to directly test whether critical tokens are preserved. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (experimental setup): the SOTA margins on OmniVideoBench and LVOmniBench are presented without ablation tables isolating the contribution of each IR criterion or without error analysis across query types, so it is impossible to determine whether the gains reflect general hour-scale fidelity or benchmark-specific retention patterns.

    Authors: We appreciate the request for finer-grained analysis. The reported results reflect the full AVOC pipeline; however, to isolate effects we will add ablation tables removing or varying each IR criterion (relevance, importance, diversity) individually, together with per-query-type error breakdowns on both benchmarks. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces AVOC as an empirical framework with a learnable top-K token compression module inspired by classical IR criteria (relevance, importance, diversity), but contains no equations, first-principles derivations, or predictions that reduce by construction to fitted parameters or self-citations. Performance claims are benchmark results (OmniVideoBench, LVOmniBench, Needle-in-a-Haystack), not quantities defined in terms of the method itself. No load-bearing self-citation chains or ansatzes smuggled via prior work appear in the provided text; the approach is self-contained as a proposed architecture evaluated externally.

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