@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-univid,
    title = "{UNIVID}: Unified Vision-Language Model for Video Moderation",
    author = "Yang, Kejuan  and
      Zhang, Yizhuo  and
      Du, Mingyuan  and
      Zhang, Yue  and
      Zheng, Dixin  and
      Zhao, Kaili  and
      Xiao, Yang  and
      Liang, Hanzhong  and
      Xiao, Kenan",
    editor = "Li, Yunyao  and
      Rehm, Georg  and
      Tu, Mei",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics ({ACL} 2026)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-industry.32/",
    pages = "467--479",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-394-4",
    abstract = "Global-scale video moderation faces a dual challenge: the need for fine-grained multimodal reasoning and the demand for interpretable outputs to support downstream enforcement. Traditional moderation systems often rely on fragmented black-box classifiers that are difficult to maintain and lack transparency.In this paper, we present UNIVID, a Unified Vision-Language model for Video Moderation. Unlike standard classification models, UNIVID generates policy-aware captions that serve as an interpretable intermediate representation, enabling human-verifiable decisions and multi-task reusability. While existing open-source and commercial VLMs often suffer from safety-guardrail refusals and lack fine-grained policy alignment, we develop a specialized training data recipe that combines expert human-refined labels with synthetic data to align the model with our safety guidelines.By integrating UNIVID as the core captioner, we design a novel end-to-end video moderation system that reduces violation leakage by 42.7{\%} and overkill rate by 37.0{\%} relatively. Meanwhile, by replacing over 1,000 policy-specific models with a single UNIVID backbone, we recycle extensive computational resources while significantly reducing engineering maintenance overhead. To our knowledge, this is one of the first reports of a high-efficiency captioning VLM successfully supporting industrial-scale moderation and cross-functional business."
}