Social relationship recognition, as one of the fundamental tasks in video understanding, contributes to the construction and application of multi-modal knowledge graph. Previous works have mainly focused on two aspects: generating character graphs and multi-modal fusion. However, they often overlook the impact of cultural differences on relationship recognition. Specifically, relationship recognition models are susceptible to being misled by training data from a specific cultural context. This can result in the learning of culture-specific spurious correlations, ultimately restricting the ability to recognize social relationships in different cultures. Therefore, we employ a customized causal graph to analyze the confounding effects of culture in the relationship recognition task. We propose a Cultural Causal Intervention (CCI) model that mitigates the influence of culture as a confounding factor in the visual and textual modalities. Importantly, we also construct a novel video social relation recognition (CVSR) dataset to facilitate discussion and research on cultural factors in video tasks. Extensive experiments conducted on several datasets demonstrate that the proposed model surpasses state-of-the-art methods.

Given the importance of ancient Chinese in capturing the essence of rich historical and cultural heritage, the rapid advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitate benchmarks that can effectively evaluate their understanding of ancient contexts. To meet this need, we present AC-EVAL, an innovative benchmark designed to assess the advanced knowledge and reasoning capabilities of LLMs within the context of ancient Chinese. AC-EVAL is structured across three levels of difficulty reflecting different facets of language comprehension: general historical knowledge, short text understanding, and long text comprehension. The benchmark comprises 13 tasks, spanning historical facts, geography, social customs, art, philosophy, classical poetry and prose, providing a comprehensive assessment framework. Our extensive evaluation of top-performing LLMs, tailored for both English and Chinese, reveals a substantial potential for enhancing ancient text comprehension. By highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs, AC-EVAL aims to promote their development and application forward in the realms of ancient Chinese language education and scholarly research.