Visual prompt engineering for video models
Quick summary
arXiv:2607.25537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the age of foundation models, a model is only as good as its prompt. For this reason, prompt engineering has become an essential technique for improving language model performance. Since video models are currently becoming foundation models for visual tasks (e.g., visual reasoning), we here ask whether they similarly benefit from visual prompt engineering: automatically modifying the task image to improve model performance. For example, for a visual physics reasoning task ("Where does the ball land, after passing a set of obstacles?"), an ab
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2607.25537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the age of foundation models, a model is only as good as its prompt.
- For this reason, prompt engineering has become an essential technique for improving language model performance.
- Since video models are currently becoming foundation models for visual tasks (e.g., visual reasoning), we here ask whether they similarly benefit from visual prompt engineering: automatically modifying the task image to improve model performance.
Why it matters
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