arXiv Computer Vision

Video Evidence to Reasoning Efficient Video Understanding via Explicit Evidence Grounding

arXiv:2601. 07761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) face a fundamental dilemma in video reasoning: they are caught between the prohibitive computational costs of verbose reasoning and the hallucination risks of efficient, ungrounded approaches.

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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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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 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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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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23h ago

VISD: Enhancing Video Reasoning via Structured Self-Distillation

arXiv:2605. 06094v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training VideoLLMs for complex reasoning remains challenging due to sparse sequence level rewards and the lack of fine grained credit assignment over long, temporally grounded reasoning trajectories.

By Hao Lin, Kunyang Lv, Xu Jiang, Jingqi Tian, Zhongjing Du, Jiayu Ding, Qiaoman Zhang, Hongbo Jin

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Jul 14

Evidence-Backed Video Question Answering

arXiv:2607. 11862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) excel in question answering (QA) but largely operate as black boxes, providing textual answers without verifiable visual grounding.

By Shijie Wang, Honglu Zhou, Ziyang Wang, Ran Xu, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Chen Sun, Juan Carlos Niebles

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Aug 3

Demystifying Video Reasoning

arXiv:2603. 16870v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in video generation have revealed an unexpected phenomenon: diffusion-based video models exhibit non-trivial reasoning capabilities.

By Ruisi Wang, Zhongang Cai, Fanyi Pu, Junxiang Xu, Wanqi Yin, Maijunxian Wang, Ran Ji, Chenyang Gu, Bo Li, Ziqi Huang, Hokin Deng, Dahua Lin, Ziwei Liu, Lei Yang

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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 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 AI

Jun 24

EG-VQA: Benchmarking Verifiable Video Question Answering with Grounded Temporal Evidence

arXiv:2606. 24797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have yielded promising performance on video question answering (VideoQA).

By Linpeng Huang, Weixing Chen, Zexin Chen, Yang Liu, Liang Lin

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4d ago

MedClaw: Heuristic Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Surgical Video Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 14015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding tens-of-minutes surgical videos requires long-horizon temporal reasoning, answering what happens before, after, or across stages of a procedure by grounding the question in visual evidence spread across time.

By Yingying Fan, Penghui Du, Leyan Zhu, Runze He, Zimeng Wu, Yuxuan Zhang, Liang Chen, Jiahao Xie, Jiangtang Wang, Shuai Shao, Anchao Yang, Yutong Bai, Yan Wang

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