OneStreamer Unifies Real-Time Perception, Streaming Memory, and Proactive Response in Video LLMs
Streaming video LLMs must continuously capture temporal evidence before its downstream relevance is known and proactively respond when sufficient evidence arrives. Balancing real-time perception with reusable factual memory has remained a core challenge: revisiting raw visual features explodes memory, while lossy feature pooling destroys critical spatiotemporal context. Researchers from Nanjing University and Shanghai AI Lab introduce OneStreamer (arXiv:2610.01762, ~200 upvotes on Hugging Face). The framework introduces Proactive Hierarchical Caption Memory (PHCM) to generate time-grounded captions and event summaries on the fly, paired with Proactive State Transition Learning (PSTL) to prevent idle waiting frames from overwhelming optimization gradients. Built on the newly released OneStreamer-1M dataset, their 4B model establishes state-of-the-art results across all eight streaming video benchmarks.
Key Takeaways
- Pioneers OneStreamer, unifying real-time perception, Proactive Hierarchical Caption Memory (PHCM), and proactive response
- Releases OneStreamer-1M, an open-source dataset with over 1M streaming video interaction traces
- A compact 4B model secures #1 ranking across all eight evaluated streaming video understanding benchmarks