PRISM: Predictive Recomposition via Semantic Latent Decomposition for View-invariant Video Representation Learning

Youngchae Chee, Hosu Lee, Sungjune Park, Junho Kim, Yong Man Ro


Abstract
Cross-view video representation learning aims to capture viewpoint-invariant action semantics despite substantial appearance changes across egocentric and exocentric videos. However, existing methods encode each video as a unified embedding, where view-invariant and view-variant semantics inevitably entangle under co-occurrences — a failure mode we show persists even in cross-view methods explicitly trained for view-invariance. Our key insight is that a view-invariant feature is truly disentangled when it can be sufficiently recomposed with an arbitrary view-variant feature while preserving their independent semantics. Building on this, we propose PRISM, that decomposes video into view-invariant and view-variant latents and recompose them under language supervision encouraging clean decomposition of the two streams. PRISM achieves state-of-the-art results on EgoExo4D, EgoExoLearn, AE2, even surpassing in-domain models under zero-shot setting. Code is available at [https://github.com/litcoderr/prism](https://github.com/litcoderr/prism).
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2026.emnlp-main.865
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Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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October
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hung-Yi Lee, Sunipa Dev, Jessy Li, Desmond Elliott
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EMNLP
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20014–20027
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Youngchae Chee, Hosu Lee, Sungjune Park, Junho Kim, and Yong Man Ro. 2026. PRISM: Predictive Recomposition via Semantic Latent Decomposition for View-invariant Video Representation Learning. In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 20014–20027, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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