Core Viewpoint - The article introduces the Vamba model, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer model designed for efficient understanding of long videos, significantly improving processing efficiency without compressing video tokens [1][10]. Group 1: Model Design and Efficiency - Vamba improves the efficiency of processing video tokens during training and inference by redesigning the model architecture rather than compressing video tokens [1][4]. - The model can process four times more video frames under the same hardware conditions compared to traditional Transformer architectures, with over 50% reduction in training memory consumption and doubled training speed [4][9]. - Vamba retains the original spatiotemporal features of videos, avoiding information loss that occurs with traditional downsampling or pooling methods [5][10]. Group 2: Technical Innovations - The core design of Vamba involves breaking down the costly causal self-attention operations into two more efficient components: cross-attention for text tokens and a state space model (SSM) based Mamba-2 module for video tokens [6][7]. - The Mamba-2 module reduces the computational complexity from quadratic to linear, allowing for effective processing of long video sequences [7][9]. - Vamba's architecture allows for efficient alignment of text and video information, enhancing the model's ability to analyze video content based on user queries [9][10]. Group 3: Performance Evaluation - Extensive experiments show that Vamba outperforms existing efficient long video understanding models by approximately 4.3% on the LVBench benchmark [5][10]. - The model demonstrates superior performance across various video duration benchmarks, showcasing its competitive edge in long, medium, and short video understanding tasks [10].