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Long-Video Memory Followed Objects Across Days

Grounded Entity Biographies linked the same physical instance across clips without discarding each moment's context.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-30-010
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Summary

Grounded Entity Biographies linked the same physical instance across clips without discarding each moment's context.

Grounded Entity Biographies groups visually grounded observations of one physical object into a retrievable history, then supplies that biography alongside episodic evidence when answering questions. Across four benchmarks containing day- and week-long recordings, the authors report improvements for both multiple-choice and open-ended answers. On EgoLifeQA, accuracy reached 72.0%, 4.4 percentage points above the best published result cited in the paper. Ablations attribute gains to both identity association and biography reading; extra descriptions alone did not recover the full improvement.

Why it matters

Grounded Entity Biographies linked the same physical instance across clips without discarding each moment's context.

Limits and context

  • Ablations attribute gains to both identity association and biography reading; extra descriptions alone did not recover the full improvement.

Key claims

  1. Grounded Entity Biographies linked the same physical instance across clips without discarding each moment's context.

    Qualification: Ablations attribute gains to both identity association and biography reading; extra descriptions alone did not recover the full improvement.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-30-010

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.38155arXiv · primary research

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