ResearchResearch paperLarge Language Models · Interpretability · Multimodal Models1 source · Oct 9, 2026

READ: Reading the Selective Scan for Faithful Video Attribution

Selective state-space models are an efficient approach to long-sequence video modeling.

Key points

  • In this work, we introduce READ, a parameter-free attribution method for selective state-space models that unrolls the recurrence at the position read by the classifier.
  • READ traces the contribution accumulated in the recurrent state back to the video tokens that contribute to the final prediction.
  • Experimental results show that READ avoids the systematic relevance biases of existing methods while recovering meaningful temporal and class-specific structure across datasets and backbones.
  • More broadly, our results show that the recurrence underlying selective state-space models is not only an efficient mechanism for inference, but also a direct source of interpretable evidence for their predictions.

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  • [1]READ: Reading the Selective Scan for Faithful Video Attribution
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 9, 03:59 PM
    Selective state-space models are an efficient approach to long-sequence video modeling.
    In this work, we introduce READ, a parameter-free attribution method for selective state-space models that unrolls the recurrence at the position read by the classifier.

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