AI RESEARCH
PAT-VCM: Plug-and-Play Auxiliary Tokens for Video Coding for Machines
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.13294v1 Announce Type: new Existing video coding for machines is often trained for a specific downstream task and model. As a result, the compressed representation becomes tightly coupled to the end task, making it difficult to scale across multiple tasks or adapt to model updates. We propose PAT-VCM, a plug-and-play auxiliary-token framework for video coding for machines. PAT-VCM keeps a shared baseline compressed stream and augments it with lightweight task-aware auxiliary tokens, allowing different downstream tasks to recover the information they need without re.