Beyond Similarity: Foundation Models as an Efficient Backbone for Training-Free Composed Video Retrieval
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arXiv:2607. 25266v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled long-form video understanding at a scale that was not previously possible.
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.
The paper introduces CoVR‑R, a reason‑aware composed video retrieval system that, given a reference video and an edit instruction, retrieves a target video that satisfies the edit. It employs a zero‑shot reason‑then‑retrieve pipeline using Qwen3.5‑27B to generate structured descriptions and dense embeddings for gallery videos, and performs edit reasoning on the query to produce a target‑video description used as the query embedding. The method combines dense retrieval with a TF‑IDF branch over generated texts, fusing the rankings with split‑specific weights, achieving state‑of‑the‑art retrieval metrics on both validation and blind test splits.
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.
arXiv:2606. 00910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Composed Video Retrieval (CoVR) seeks the target video that results from applying a free-form textual modification to a reference video.
arXiv:2606. 19627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The digital commerce landscape is shifting from static, search-driven catalogs to dynamic, immersive video feeds.