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| Challenge: | Existing video moderation systems rely on fragmented black-box classification models that are difficult to maintain and lack transparency. |
| Approach: | They propose a Unified Vision-Language model for Video Moderation that generates policy-aware captions that serve as an interpretable intermediate representation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model reduces violation leakage and overkill rate by 42.7% while reducing maintenance costs. |
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