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What Does the Model See? Representation Validity in Multimodal LLM-Based Video Analysis
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers tested how multimodal LLMs analyze video using different input types, text, audio, video, or combinations, finding no single representation consistently outperforms others.
- Why it matters
- Social scientists and engineers building video analysis systems need to validate which input representation matches their specific measurement goals before deployment.
- Watch out
- High classification accuracy does not guarantee estimates match human-coded benchmarks; 45% of prevalence estimates differed by over ten percentage points even with best-performing representations.
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- language model
- open-weight
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