arXiv AI

REVEAL: A Rubric-Guided Agent for Explicit Evidence Sufficiency Verificationin Long-Video Question Answering

arXiv:2608. 08612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, retrieval-augmented and memory-augmented methods have emerged as two promising paradigms for long-video question answering.

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
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

AdaVDR: Adaptive Tool Use and Reflection for Video Deep Research

AdaVDR is an adaptive video deep research agent that selects and reflects on tool usage based on the task and the model’s capabilities. It constructs a specialized data pipeline to generate high‑quality QA pairs and uses model‑conditioned filtering to remove unnecessary tool calls. The agent is trained with supervised fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning, achieving top performance on the VDR‑EE benchmark and significant gains on VideoDR.

By Xintong Zhang, Xiaomeng Fan, Shilin Yan, Ekko He, Zicheng Liu, Zijian Zou, Guannan Zhang, Yuwei Wu, Zhi Gao, Hongwei Xue
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Thinking Beyond Videos: Unifying Video Reasoning and Deep Research for Open-World Video Agents

arXiv:2608.23329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-world video understanding often requires a model to locate sparse visual evidence and acquire external knowledge that is absent from the video a...

By Wenqi Liu, Shijie Ma, Yunxiao Wang, Meng Liu, Qile Su, Han Liu, Bohan Hou, Xuanyu Zheng, Changyi Liu, Tianke Zhang, Haonan Fan, Kaiyu Jiang, Yingxin Li, Jiankang Chen, Xu Wang, Bin Wen, Tingting Gao, Han Li, Jianhua Yin, Yinwei Wei, Xuemeng Song
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
arXiv AI
Aug 28

A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite

The paper introduces the Very Big Video Reasoning (VBVR) Dataset, a large-scale collection of over one million video clips organized into 200 curated reasoning tasks. It also presents VBVR-Bench, a benchmark framework that uses rule-based, human-aligned scorers for reproducible evaluation of video reasoning models. The authors conduct a large-scale scaling study, noting early signs of emergent generalization to unseen reasoning tasks, and make all resources publicly available.

By Maijunxian Wang, Ruisi Wang, Juyi Lin, Ran Ji, Thadd\"aus Wiedemer, Qingying Gao, Dezhi Luo, Yaoyao Qian, Lianyu Huang, Zelong Hong, Jiahui Ge, Qianli Ma, Hang He, Yifan Zhou, Lingzi Guo, Lantao Mei, Jiachen Li, Hanwen Xing, Tianqi Zhao, Fengyuan Yu, Weihang Xiao, Yizheng Jiao, Jianheng Hou, Danyang Zhang, Pengcheng Xu, Boyang Zhong, Zehong Zhao, Gaoyun Fang, John Kitaoka, Yile Xu, Hua Xu, Kenton Blacutt, Tin Nguyen, Siyuan Song, Haoran Sun, Shaoyue Wen, Linyang He, Runming Wang, Yanzhi Wang, Mengyue Yang, Ziqiao Ma, Rapha\"el Milli\`ere, Freda Shi, Nuno Vasconcelos, Daniel Khashabi, Alan Yuille, Yilun Du, Ziming Liu, Bo Li, Dahua Lin, Ziwei Liu, Vikash Kumar, Yijiang Li, Lei Yang, Zhongang Cai, Hokin Deng
arXiv AI
Jul 2

VideoSearch-R1: Iterative Video Retrieval and Reasoning via Soft Query Refinement

arXiv:2607. 00446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As video corpora continue to expand in both scale and task complexity, there is increasing demand for approaches that retrieve relevant videos from large-scale corpora (inter-video reasoning) and subsequently perform fine-grained, query-conditioned tasks (intra-video reasoning) within the retrieved content, such as temporal grounding.

By Seohyun Lee, Seoung Choi, Dohwan Ko, Jongha Kim, Hyunwoo J. Kim
arXiv AI
4d ago

Watch-Think-Interact: Bootstrapping Long-Horizon Multi-Turn Streaming Video Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning

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 Computer Vision
Aug 21

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.

By Yanxiang Huang, Guohua Gao, Zhaoyang Wei