EM^2Mem: Event-Centric Multimodal Memory for Large Language Models
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arXiv:2609.00551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal memory offers a scalable interface for long-video question answering, but existing methods often retrieve captions, frames, transcripts, summaries, or graph facts as isolated fragments. Although searchable, such fragments are not generation-ready: language models must reconstruct cross-modal and temporal alignments at inference time, when context is limited and attribution is difficult. We propose EM^2Mem, an event-centric multimodal memory framework that binds heterogeneous evidence to event anchors during memory construction. Each
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.00551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal memory offers a scalable interface for long-video question answering, but existing methods often retrieve captions, frames, transcripts, summaries, or graph facts as isolated fragments.
- Although searchable, such fragments are not generation-ready: language models must reconstruct cross-modal and temporal alignments at inference time, when context is limited and attribution is difficult.
- We propose EM^2Mem, an event-centric multimodal memory framework that binds heterogeneous evidence to event anchors during memory construction.
Why it matters
This model development creates a new option for users and a new testing obligation for developers. A fixed evaluation set comparing quality, cost and failure behavior is more useful than launch claims.
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