LiveCC: Learning Video LLM with Streaming Speech Transcription at Scale
Recent video large language models (Video LLMs) often depend on costly human
annotations or proprietary model APIs (e.g., GPT-4o) to produce training data,
which limits their training at scale. In this paper, we explore large-scale
training for Video LLM with cheap automatic speech recognition (ASR)
transcripts. Specifically, we propose a novel streaming training approach that
densely interleaves the ASR words and video frames according to their
timestamps. Compared to previous studies in vision-language representation with
ASR, our method naturally fits the streaming characteristics of ASR, thus
enabling the model to learn temporally-aligned, fine-grained vision-language
modeling. To support the training algorithm, we introduce a data production
pipeline to process YouTube videos and their closed captions (CC, same as ASR),
resulting in Live-CC-5M dataset for pre-training and Live-WhisperX-526K dataset
for high-quality supervised fine-tuning (SFT). Remarkably, even without SFT,
the ASR-only pre-trained LiveCC-7B-Base model demonstrates competitive general
video QA performance and exhibits a new capability in real-time video
commentary. To evaluate this, we carefully design a new LiveSports-3K
benchmark, using LLM-as-a-judge to measure the free-form commentary.
Experiments show our final LiveCC-7B-Instruct model can surpass advanced 72B
models (Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct, LLaVA-Video-72B) in commentary quality even
working in a real-time mode. Meanwhile, it achieves state-of-the-art results at
the 7B/8B scale on popular video QA benchmarks such as VideoMME and OVOBench,
demonstrating the broad generalizability of our approach. All resources of this
paper have been released at https://showlab.github.io/livecc.
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LiveCC: Learning Video LLM with Streaming Speech Transcription at Scale
Recent video large language models (Video LLMs) often depend on costly human
annotations or proprietary model APIs (e.g., GPT-4o) to produce training data,
which limits their training at scale. In this paper, we explore large-scale
training for Video LLM with cheap automatic speech recognition (ASR)
transcripts. Specifically, we propose a novel streaming training approach that
densely interleaves the ASR words and video frames according to their
timestamps. Compared to previous studies in vision-language representation with
ASR, our method naturally fits the streaming characteristics of ASR, thus
enabling the model to learn temporally-aligned, fine-grained vision-language
modeling. To support the training algorithm, we introduce a data production
pipeline to process YouTube videos and their closed captions (CC, same as ASR),
resulting in Live-CC-5M dataset for pre-training and Live-WhisperX-526K dataset
for high-quality supervised fine-tuning (SFT). Remarkably, even without SFT,
the ASR-only pre-trained LiveCC-7B-Base model demonstrates competitive general
video QA performance and exhibits a new capability in real-time video
commentary. To evaluate this, we carefully design a new LiveSports-3K
benchmark, using LLM-as-a-judge to measure the free-form commentary.
Experiments show our final LiveCC-7B-Instruct model can surpass advanced 72B
models (Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct, LLaVA-Video-72B) in commentary quality even
working in a real-time mode. Meanwhile, it achieves state-of-the-art results at
the 7B/8B scale on popular video QA benchmarks such as VideoMME and OVOBench,
demonstrating the broad generalizability of our approach. All resources of this
paper have been released at https://showlab.github.io/livecc.
Large-scale training for Video LLMs using ASR transcripts enables competitive video QA performance and real-time commentary capabilities.
video large language models Video LLMs automatic speech recognition ASR streaming training vision-language representation temporally-aligned fine-grained vision-language modeling data production pipeline closed captions Live-CC-5M Live-WhisperX-526K supervised fine-tuning SFT general video QA real-time video commentary LiveSports-3K LLM-as-a-judge VideoMME OVOBench LiveCC-7B-Base LiveCC-7B-Instruct Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct LLaVA-Video-72B