Masked Diffusion Vision-Language Models for Temporal Action Localization 文章

arXiv:2605.29858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal action localization (TAL) requires recognizing the target event and localizing its start and end times precisely in untrimmed videos. Recent vision-language formulations improve semantic reasoning and support language-conditioned outputs, but their autoregressive decoders still generate tokens from left to right, preventing later semantic evidence from revising earlier timestamp predictions. We adapt masked diffusion vision-language models (MDVLMs) to TAL so that semantic tokens and boundary tokens remain editable throughout iterative denoising with bidirectional attention, allowing temporal boundaries and semantic content to be refined jointly. Direct adaptation, however, creates two TAL-specific mismatches: standard masked diffusion training corrupts all positions uniformly at random, but the time tokens are more reliable when enough semantic context is available;