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Temporal-Aware Reasoning Optimization for Video Temporal Grounding

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 AI

Jun 30

TAR: Temporal Anchor-Constrained Reasoning for Video Temporal Grounding

arXiv:2508. 07683v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize specific video segments corresponding to natural language queries.

By Chaohong Guo, Xun Mo, Yongwei Nie, Fei Ma, Xuemiao Xu, Chengjiang Long

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

TLG: Temporal-Logic Grounding for Video Question Answering via Source-Annotation Reconstruction and Category-Targeted Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 01591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The TimeLogic Challenge evaluates formal temporal-logic reasoning over video - 16 operators (before, after, until, since, always, co-occur, ordering, ...

By Ali Alavi

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Video Reasoning without Training

arXiv:2510. 17045v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video reasoning using Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) relies on costly reinforcement learning (RL) and verbose chain-of-thought, resulting in substantial computational overhead during both training and inference.

By Deepak Sridhar, Kartikeya Bhardwaj, Jeya Pradha Jeyaraj, Nuno Vasconcelos, Ankita Nayak, Harris Teague

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arXiv AI

Jun 11

ProcessThinker: Enhancing Multi-modal Large Language Models Reasoning via Rollout-based Process Reward

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

Towards Sparse Video Understanding and Reasoning

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

Incentivizing Vision Language Models to Search for Long Video Question Answering

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 10

OpenCoF: Learning to Reason Through Video Generation

arXiv:2607. 08763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning has become a core capability for large models, especially when reliable decisions require understanding logical consequences.

By Xinyan Chen, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Dongzhi Jiang, Hongsheng Li

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Think Less, Act Early: Reinforced Latent Reasoning with Early Exit in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606. 15099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to bridge perception and action.

By Dianqiao Lei, Lianlei Shan

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

CADER: Confidence-Aware Dynamic Evidence Reasoning for Long-Video Understanding

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Pause and Think: A Dataset and Benchmark for Video-Grounded Assistive Action Suggestion

arXiv:2606. 00616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle with grounded reasoning, temporal consistency, and context aware planning in videos.

By Shivam Singh, Saptarshi Majumdar, Pratik Prabhanjan, Zicheng Liu, Emad Barsoum

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arXiv AI

Jul 7

EventCoT: Event-centric Video Chain-of-thought for Reasoning Temporal Localization

arXiv:2607. 04872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning temporal localization (RTL) requires a model to generate an answer that itself contains the time interval supporting it, so high-level reasoning and precise temporal grounding must be produced jointly in a single response.

By Youngkil Song, Yoonjae Baek, Dongwon Kim, Inho Kim, Dongkeun Kim, Suha Kwak

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arXiv AI

Jul 7

VideoSearcher: Empowering Video Deep Research with Multi-Tool Agentic Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

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

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