arXiv:2606. 24477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video large language models (LLMs) are often constrained by computation and memory budgets, leading them to use reduced frame rates and spatial resolutions, which may cause them to miss critical information for question answering (QA).
By Yixuan Li, Guangzhi Sun, Yudong Yang, Wei Li, Zejun MA, Chao Zhang
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:2606. 11209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual question answering increasingly requires multi-step reasoning.
By Jingpei Wu, Xiao Han, Weixiang Shen, Boer Zhang, Zifeng Ding, Volker Tresp
GFlowPO introduces a probabilistic framework for optimizing language model prompts by treating prompt search as posterior inference over latent prompts, regularized by a meta-prompted reference-LM prior. The method first fine‑tunes a lightweight prompt‑LM using an off‑policy Generative Flow Network objective that reuses past prompt evaluations for sample‑efficient exploration. It then applies a training‑free Dynamic Memory Update to refine the meta‑prompt with diverse and top‑performing prompts, leading to consistent improvements over recent discrete prompt optimization baselines on few‑shot classification, instruction induction, and question‑answering tasks.
By Junmo Cho, Suhan Kim, Sangjune An, Minsu Kim, Dong Bok Lee, Heejun Lee, Sung Ju Hwang, Hae Beom Lee
The paper introduces a new protocol, Mistake Detection Video Question Answering (MD‑VQA), to evaluate whether models can determine if a step in a video follows its description, covering both seen and unseen actions. It proposes a post‑training approach for video‑language models that uses a reward function to highlight discrepancies between instructions and video content. Experiments show this method surpasses zero‑shot, fine‑tuned, and other post‑training baselines, especially on unseen procedures, improving performance by up to 11.6% on EP‑VQA.
By Federico Spurio, Olga Zatsarynna, Lars Doorenbos, Emad Bahrami, Gianpiero Francesca, Juergen Gall
arXiv:2606. 01285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-video generation has advanced rapidly in visual quality, but remains under-evaluated for factuality and practical usefulness.
By Chenxu Wang, Mingda Chen
arXiv:2610.00757v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long-video question answering is limited by the high cost of visual tokens and by the fixed context width of current VLMs. A long-video question may re...
By Haowen Guan, Shengzhi Li, Shichao Pei
The paper introduces Watch-Think-Interact (WTI), a closed-loop framework for multi-question streaming video reasoning that maintains compact natural-language memory entries linked to video time ranges. WTI decides whether to answer, continue watching, or recall relevant past intervals for each question, avoiding replay of the full history. The authors build a large dataset, WTI-82K, and a training method, Stream-GDPO, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on StreamingBench and OVO-Bench.
By Ziheng Huang, Yicheng Bao, Xueheng Li, Zhenkun Gao, Bangwei Liu, Kunquan Li, Yuxiang Shen, Bangyan Li, Xuejiao Wang, Changbo Wang, Gaoqi He
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
VAMR is a video agent that handles multiple questions about a single long‑form video using a single shared tool‑use trajectory, rather than treating each question separately. It employs question‑conditioned visual perception, layered multi‑question memory, and a question‑horizon policy optimization to jointly acquire evidence and progressively build a shared understanding. In benchmark tests (LVBench, Video‑Holmes, LongVideoBench), VAMR outperforms prior methods, achieving higher accuracy and fewer reasoning rounds and processed frames.
By Runquan Gui, Hanzhu Chen, Zehao Wang, Hanxin Zhu, Xin Li, Zhibo Chen
WanPE is a 397‑B parameter prompt‑enhancement model that learns director‑level cinematic planning from 1.05 M real‑world videos. It generates shot‑level cinematic plans through video‑grounded reverse construction and uses Semantic‑Consistency GRPO (SC‑GRPO) to maintain user intent across shots and time. In evaluations, WanPE improves human preference over raw prompts by up to 50.86 points for 30‑second videos and outperforms commercial offerings for shorter durations.
By Yubo Zhu, Yawen Shao, Ziyun Dai, Zixun Fang, Kai Zhu, Siyang Sun, Haolan Xue, Chuxin Wang, Tingyu Weng, Jingming Luo, Chen Shi, Lianghua Huang, Yufeng Ai, Yuzheng Wang, Wenyuan Zhang, Yu Shang, Yuxiang Bao, Zoubin Bi, Jie Xiao, Jinbo Xing, Jiaxing Zhao, Chongyang Zhong, Hengjian Chen, Chenwei Xie, Akide Liu, Zhehan Kan, Yu Liu, Wei Zhai, Sheng Zhong, Wei Tong
OneStreamer is a streaming video model that jointly learns to record evidence and respond to tasks through a shared proactive generation process. Its Proactive Hierarchical Caption Memory creates time‑grounded local‑detail captions and event summaries, while Proactive State Transition Learning reduces waiting states by supervising all output anchors. The authors also built a large OneStreamer‑1M dataset and show that a 4B model outperforms baselines on eight streaming video benchmarks, with ablations confirming the benefits of generated captions and PSTL.
By Xiangyu Zeng, Yuandong Yang, Zhiqiu Zhang, Yuhan Zhu, Xinhao Li, Qingyi Si, Dingyu Yao, Changlian Ma, Haoran Chen, Xinyu Chen, Yansong Shi, Junhao Zhou, Yifei Li, Jun Zhang, Chuanyu Qin, Chenxu Yang, Xinlei Yu, Kun Ouyang, Yuchen Shao, Qianshan Wei, Changhai Zhou, Jun Gao, Jiaqi Wang, Limin Wang