arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Finding the Right Evidence: Factor-Guided Coarse-to-Fine Reasoning for Long Videos

The paper introduces PACE, a factor-guided, progressive framework for acquiring evidence in long-video question answering. PACE first indexes clip-level descriptions using question-derived factors, then refines evidence retrieval with contrastive cues derived from candidate answers. On the MMR‑V dataset, PACE achieves 42.6% accuracy and recovers 66.9% of annotated cues, outperforming direct inference and prior agentic baselines, and shows consistent improvements across several long-video benchmarks.

By Baixuan Xu, Yinyui Xu, Tianshi Zheng, Zhaowei Wang, Weiqi Wang, Haochen Shi, Jiayu Liu, Qing Zong, Xiyu Ren, Xinyu Geng, Zhitao He, Yangqiu Song
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Active Video Perception: Iterative Evidence Seeking for Agentic Long Video Understanding

arXiv:2512. 05774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long video understanding (LVU) is challenging because answering real-world queries often depends on sparse, temporally dispersed cues buried in hours of mostly redundant and irrelevant content.

By Ziyang Wang, Honglu Zhou, Shijie Wang, Junnan Li, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Mohit Bansal, Michael S. Ryoo, Juan Carlos Niebles