AI RESEARCH

Tracing the Arrow of Time: Diagnosing Temporal Information Flow in Video-LLMs

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2605.07568v1 Announce Type: cross The Arrow-of-Time (AoT) task, determining whether a video plays forward or backward by recognizing temporal irreversibility, is one humans solve with near-perfect accuracy, yet frontier Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) perform only modestly above chance.