AI RESEARCH

SPARROW: Learning Spatial Precision and Temporal Referential Consistency in Pixel-Grounded Video MLLMs

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2603.12382v1 Announce Type: cross Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced from image-level reasoning to pixel-level grounding, but extending these capabilities to videos remains challenging as models must achieve spatial precision and temporally consistent reference tracking. Existing video MLLMs often rely on a static segmentation token ([SEG]) for frame-wise grounding, which provides semantics but lacks temporal context, causing spatial drift, identity switches, and unstable initialization when objects move or reappear. We.