arXiv:2608.14835v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Dynamic scene graphs (DSGs) capture spatio-temporal interactions across videos as $\langle$subject, predicate, object$\rangle$ triplets, and underp...
By John Helsby, Yi Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn, Michael Ying Yang
STRAND is a new benchmark that tests multimodal large language models’ ability to track objects, their states, and relationships over time in videos. It evaluates intermediate reasoning by breaking queries into sub‑questions and uses Faithful Accuracy to ensure all parts of an answer are correct. The authors also propose an object‑centric framework that builds structured trajectories and shows reduced hallucinations and better temporal consistency compared to existing models.
By Thong Nguyen, Tri Cao, Khoi Le, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Quynh Vo, See-Kiong Ng, Bryan Hooi Kuen-Yew
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. 02833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chart question answering (CQA) requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to integrate visual comprehension with logical reasoning, yet current models struggle with accurate visual grounding and coherent reasoning chains.
By Xuehang Guo, Pingyue Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang, Zhenhailong Wang, Hanrui Lyu, Heng Ji, Tong Sun, Qingyun Wang, Manling Li
arXiv:2610.16172v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong results on video question answering, yet often fail to recover the temporal structure...
By Guowen Zhang, Boshen Xu, Zihao Yue, Ziheng Wang, Xiaokun Liu, Xin Tao, Wenyu Qin, Pengfei Wan, Qin Jin
arXiv:2506. 01274v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) has enabled effective vision-language reasoning, yet the ability to video understanding remains constrained by suboptimal frame selection strategies, albeit with the rapid development of video-specialized LMMs.
By Hosu Lee, Junho Kim, Hyunjun Kim, Yong Man Ro
arXiv:2510. 01483v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong image-level scene understanding, but reasoning over long egocentric video remains costly: because VLMs maintain no persistent memory or explicit spatial representation, all sampled frames must be re-processed for every new query.
By Mohamad Al Mdfaa, Svetlana Lukina, Timur Akhtyamov, Arthur Nigmatzyanov, Dmitrii Nalberskii, Sergey Zagoruyko, Gonzalo Ferrer
arXiv:2609.10008v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Composed video retrieval (CoVR) searches a gallery for the target video that realizes a natural-language modification of a source clip. However, at gal...
By Dmitry Demidov, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Omkar Thawakar, Abdelrahman Mohamed Shaker, Rao Anwer
arXiv:2606. 06294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Temporal Grounding (TG) aims to localize video segments corresponding to a textual query.
By Qi Xu, Yue Tan, Shihao Chen, Jiahao Meng, Anna Wang, Shunping Ji, Hao Fei, Jason Li
The paper introduces structured video prompting, a training‑free inference‑time technique that augments input videos with lightweight spatial and temporal structure to provide explicit anchors for evidence organization. By applying this method to two video benchmarks and two open video‑language models, the authors demonstrate performance improvements across several tasks, with gains varying by model and task. The study suggests that failures in video‑language models stem not only from reasoning capacity but also from how video evidence is presented during inference.
By Sadegh Mohammadian
arXiv:2607. 24794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate superior generalization in fundamental video tasks, restricted context windows limit their long video understanding.
By Linghao Meng, Qiankun Li, Junyuan Mao, Pujin Liao, Zhicheng He, Enbo Zhang, Kun Wang, Yang Liu, Huazhu Fu, Yueming Jin
VisionCoach is an input‑adaptive reinforcement learning framework that enhances spatio‑temporal grounding in video reasoning by using visual prompting during training. The system selectively applies visual prompts to challenging inputs, amplifying question‑relevant evidence and suppressing distractors, and then internalizes these improvements through self‑distillation so that inference can be performed on raw videos without prompts. Experiments on multiple benchmarks (V‑STAR, VideoMME, World‑Sense, VideoMMMU, PerceptionTest, and Charades‑STA) show that VisionCoach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance while maintaining a single efficient inference pathway.
By Daeun Lee, Shoubin Yu, Yue Zhang, Mohit Bansal