arXiv:2607. 02959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce VSeek, an agentic framework that transforms long-video question answering (LVQA) from a passive, single-pass perception task into a multi-turn retrieval process.
By Harsh Goel, S P Sharan, Sahil Shah, Minkyu Choi, Joungbin An, Kristen Grauman, Sandeep P. Chinchali
arXiv:2608.27871v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long-video understanding remains challenging for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to limited context length. Uniform sampling may miss cruc...
By Ziling Huang, Shin'ichi Satoh
arXiv:2607. 02927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video understanding is moving beyond closed-context perception toward open-world evidence exploration, a paradigm formalized as Video Deep Research (VDR).
By Zhenkun Gao, Yicheng Bao, Jinlong Peng, Xueheng Li, Theo Huang, Bangwei Liu, Kunquan Li, Zhenye Gan, Tao Hu, Chengjun Xie, Mingqian Yang, Xuanhua He, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan, Chengjie Wang, Yuan Xie
arXiv:2606. 07512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current Vision-Language Models struggle with hours-long videos because processing full-length visual sequences induces prohibitive token explosion and attention dilution.
By Cong Chen, Guo Gan, Kaixiang Ji, ChaoYang Zhang, Zhen Yang, Guangming Yao, Hao Chen, Jingdong Chen, Yi Yuan, Chunhua Shen
arXiv:2602. 13602v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present \revise (\underline{Re}asoning with \underline{Vi}deo \underline{S}parsity), a multi-round agent for video question answering (VQA).
By Chenwei Xu, Zhen Ye, Shang Wu, Weijian Li, Zihan Wang, Zhuofan Xia, Lie Lu, Pranav Maneriker, Fan Du, Manling Li, Han Liu
arXiv:2512. 05774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long video understanding (LVU) is challenging because answering real-world queries often depends on sparse, temporally dispersed cues buried in hours of mostly redundant and irrelevant content.
By Ziyang Wang, Honglu Zhou, Shijie Wang, Junnan Li, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Mohit Bansal, Michael S. Ryoo, Juan Carlos Niebles
arXiv:2609.12818v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long video understanding often behaves like a visual needle-in-a-haystack problem: query-relevant evidence is sparsely distributed across long temporal...
By Sen Yang, Boqiang Duan, Jing Yang, Weihao Bo, Jie Liu, Boyuan Tong, Ze Feng, Wenkang Zhang, Jingdong Wang, Hua Wu
VideoTIR introduces a reinforcement‑learning approach to improve long‑video understanding by encouraging multimodal large language models to use comprehensive multi‑level toolkits efficiently. It combines Zero‑RL and SFT cold‑starting strategies to help models retrieve and focus on meaningful video segments, images, and regions, thereby reducing hallucinations. The method includes Toolkit Action Grouped Policy Optimization (TAGPO) to streamline tool‑calling and a sandbox‑based trajectory synthesis framework for high‑quality data, achieving strong results on three long‑video QA benchmarks.
By Zhe Gao, Shiyu Shen, Taifeng Chai, Weinong Wang, Haotian Xu, Xing Wu, Wenbin Li, Qi Fan, Yang Gao, Dacheng Tao
arXiv:2607. 24582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-video understanding increasingly relies on large vision-language models and tool-augmented reasoning, but most systems apply the same inference procedure to every example regardless of difficulty.
By Jinlong Yang, Wenhao Zhang, Kuanwei Lin, Sijie Cheng
Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video temporal grounding with reinforcement learning for generating reasoning paths. However, existing models often produce superficial reasoning, which offers limited guidance for precise temporal localization.
arXiv:2608.31005v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Existing long-video agents acquire evidence through one uniform behavior, ignoring whether the required evidence is concentrated, requires broad occurr...
By Can Zhang, Baofeng Zhang, Xiaotian Han, Junyuan Shang, Yuchen Ding, Shuohuan Wang, Dianhai Yu, Ruirui Li
arXiv:2608. 03918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient long-video understanding requires vision--language models (VLMs) to reason over a small number of frames selected as sparse visual evidence.
By Ke Li, Jiayu Chen, Maoliang Li, Zihao Zheng, Hailong Zou, Hengyi Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu, Xiang Chen