Beyond Scalar IoU: Structured Verification from Rollout Groups for Video Temporal Grounding

The paper introduces SUTURE, a structured verification method for video temporal grounding that leverages the joint structure of rollout groups rather than scoring each rollout independently. SUTURE conditions verification on the entire rollout group, using disagreement across rollouts to reweight targets and coverage at each position to redistribute reward mass. Experiments on five benchmarks show that SUTURE consistently improves grounding performance across all IoU thresholds and reduces video-start anchoring in reasoning traces, indicating that the joint structure of a rollout group can provide a more informative temporal verifier.

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• reinforcement-learning
• benchmarks