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Low-Latency Multi-modal Stream Moderation

A live-streaming platform needs to moderate both video frames and audio transcripts in near real-time (sub-500ms latency) to detect policy violations like graphic violence or hate speech. Design a system that leverages Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Audio-to-Text models. How do you handle the high throughput of 100k concurrent streams without exploding costs?

Key concepts

multi-modallatency optimizationcascading filtersvlm

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