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arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-16

VideoSEMA: a scalable and efficient Mamba-like attention for video understanding

Nhat Thanh Tran, Fanghui Xue, Shuai Zhang, Jiancheng Lyu, Yunling Zheng, Yingyong Qi, Jack Xin

We present for video understanding (classification) a split space-time attention model, VideoSEMA, consisting of a scalable and efficient Mamba-like attention (SEMA) block in space and a softmax temporal attention in time. In each frame, SEMA attention applies a local window attention in parallel with a global averaging in a Mamba macro-architecture, which is called Mamba-like. Under certain rank conditions, we prove that the computationally cheaper split space-time attention is equivalent to full space-time attention. On benchmark K400 data sets, VideoSEMA out-performs heavier vision transformer and Mamba models. On benchmark SSv2 data, VideoSEMA leads in top-1 accuracy among models of similar parameter sizes. As image resolution scales up from standard $224^2$ to $1024^2$ on K400 and without fine-tuning, VideoSEMA degrades much more gracefully than VideoMamba in accuracy. It is promising to extend VideoSEMA to longer videos with a dilated/sparse temporal attention.

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