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VQQA: An Agentic Approach for Video Evaluation and Quality Improvement

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-03-16 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Multiagent Systems

Abstract

Despite rapid advancements in video generation models, aligning their outputs with complex user intent remains challenging. Existing test-time optimization methods are typically either computationally expensive or require white-box access to model internals. To address this, we present VQQA (Video Quality Question Answering), a unified, multi-agent framework generalizable across diverse input modalities and video generation tasks. By dynamically generating visual questions and using the resulting Vision-Language Model (VLM) critiques as semantic gradients, VQQA replaces traditional, passive evaluation metrics with human-interpretable, actionable feedback. This enables a highly efficient, closed-loop prompt optimization process via a black-box natural language interface. Extensive experiments demonstrate that VQQA effectively isolates and resolves visual artifacts, substantially improving generation quality in just a few refinement steps. Applicable to both text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) tasks, our method achieves absolute improvements of +11.57% on T2V-CompBench and +8.43% on VBench2 over vanilla generation, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art stochastic search and prompt optimization techniques.

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@article{arxiv.2603.12310,
  title  = {VQQA: An Agentic Approach for Video Evaluation and Quality Improvement},
  author = {Yiwen Song and Tomas Pfister and Yale Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.12310},
  year   = {2026}
}
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