Parallelized Autoregressive Decoding for Omni-Modal Dense Video Captioning

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This paper introduces PadCaptioner, a 3B parameter model for omni-modal dense video captioning that uses parallelized autoregressive decoding to achieve high efficiency and quality, outperforming 7B counterparts. A latent planning mechanism enables lossless parallel generation by exploiting weak local dependencies among events.

Dense video captioning aims to generate temporally grounded descriptions of video events, benefiting both event-level video understanding and generation. In this domain, autoregressive video large language models have emerged as a prevalent paradigm due to their strong generative and cross-modal modeling capacity. However, generating dense captions under the token-by-token paradigm severely limits inference efficiency and hinders scalability as video length and event density increase. In this work, we propose a parallelized autoregressive framework that not only improves generation efficiency but also enhances temporally grounded captioning performance. Our key insight is to exploit the weak local dependencies across temporally distinct events to restructure the causal dependency graph, thereby enabling lossless parallel generation. Specifically, tokens with weak cross-event dependencies can be decoded in parallel, while tightly coupled tokens within each event retain sequential decoding to preserve local semantic coherence. To realize this insight, we introduce two key components for lossless parallel decoding: (1) a latent global planning mechanism that automatically learns the event-level structure and produces compact tokens encoding global inter-event causality while adaptively aggregating event-level audio-visual semantics, guiding subsequent dependency restructuring and parallel decoding; and (2) an event-factorized parallel decoding mechanism that effectively balances local focus with global inter-event awareness. Experiments on various benchmarks demonstrate the clear advantage of our approach in both efficiency and performance in omni-modal event grounding and captioning. Project website: https://github.com/showlab/PadCaptioner.
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Source: https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.02963 We propose PadCaptioner, a 3B model for omni-modal dense video captioning that achieves high efficiency and strong grounded caption quality, outperforming 7B counterparts.

The core idea is to exploit the weak local dependencies among temporally distinct events and restructure the causal token dependency, enabling lossless parallel generation.

We design a latent planning mechanism that automatically determines parallelizable units with non-local awareness, guiding subsequent parallel decoding and improving event grounding and caption quality.

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