MLT-Dedup: New Framework for Efficient Large-Scale Video Deduplication
Researchers have proposed MLT-Dedup, a machine learning framework designed to detect and remove near-duplicate videos on large online platforms with 91% reduction in repetition rates at 90% precision. The system uses a Multi-Level Video Encoder combined with a Differential Feature-enhanced Similarity Module to balance efficient candidate retrieval with precise matching, while achieving a 5x increase in indexing capacity over prior approaches. Accepted at KDD-2026, the work addresses a growing infrastructure and user-experience problem caused by the explosion of user-generated video content.
MLT-Dedup is a video deduplication framework developed to tackle the challenge of near-duplicate videos—content that is identical or highly similar but altered through partial edits—on large-scale online platforms. The system introduces a Multi-Level Video Encoder (ML-VE) that extracts both fine-grained frame-level embeddings for precise pairwise matching and sparse clip-level embeddings for efficient large-scale candidate retrieval. A key component, DiF-SiM (Differential Feature-enhanced Similarity Module), enables the system to localize duplicated temporal segments within videos and generate reliable similarity scores to inform deduplication policy decisions. Experiments on a real-world platform showed a 91% reduction in online repetition rates at 90% precision, alongside a 5x improvement in indexing capacity compared to existing methods. The framework was accepted to the KDD-2026 Applied Data Science track, indicating peer validation within the data mining and machine learning community. The work is motivated by the dual costs of video duplication: degraded user experience and increased storage and bandwidth expenditure for platform operators.
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The paper does not specify which online platform(s) the real-world experiments were conducted on, limiting assessment of generalizability across different content types or platform scales. Computational cost and latency benchmarks for production deployment are not detailed in the abstract.
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- arXiv cs.LGCenter
MLT-Dedup: Efficient Large-Scale Online Video Deduplication via Multi-Level Representations and Spatial-Temporal Matching
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