Papers by Mingkai Tian
The Devil is in the Distributions: Explicit Modeling of Scene Content is Key in Zero-Shot Video Captioning (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for zero-shot video captioning focus on one key aspect of the scene and ignore the rest of the visual input. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel textual prompting strategy for zero-shot video captioning that uses a category-aware retrieval mechanism to promote prompt diversity while ensuring visual relevance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods on in-domain and cross-domain settings. |
From Short Video to Clickable Search: RLVR-Enabled Listwise Query Suggestion with Retrieval-Augmented Context (2026.acl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to generate short-video bottom-bar queries are largely retrieval-based. |
| Approach: | They propose to reformulate the task as one-shot list generation, producing multiple queries per video . they also build multi-query ground truth from exposure and CTR logs, and redesign offline evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system yields strong offline and online improvements . it is deployed on Kuaishou to serve hundreds of millions of users daily . |