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Videos, with their unique temporal dimension, demand precise grounded understanding, where answers are directly linked to visual, interpretable evidence. Despite significant breakthroughs in text-based reasoning with large language models,…

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Long-form video understanding remains challenging for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) due to the inherent tension between computational constraints and the need to capture information distributed across thousands of frames. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Junbo Zou , Ziheng Huang , Shengjie Zhang , Liwen Zhang , Weining Shen

Long-form multimodal video understanding requires integrating vision, speech, and ambient audio with coherent long-range reasoning. Existing benchmarks emphasize either temporal length or multimodal richness, but rarely both and while some…

Online video understanding requires models to perform continuous perception and long-range reasoning within potentially infinite visual streams. Its fundamental challenge lies in the conflict between the unbounded nature of streaming media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Siwei Wen , Zhangcheng Wang , Xingjian Zhang , Lei Huang , Wenjun Wu

Our world offers a never-ending stream of visual stimuli, yet today's vision systems only accurately recognize patterns within a few seconds. These systems understand the present, but fail to contextualize it in past or future events. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chao-Yuan Wu , Philipp Krähenbühl

Video reasoning constitutes a comprehensive assessment of a model's capabilities, as it demands robust perceptual and interpretive skills, thereby serving as a means to explore the boundaries of model performance. While recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yudi Shi , Shangzhe Di , Qirui Chen , Qinian Wang , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie

Recent advancements in Large Video-Language Models (LVLMs) have led to promising results in multimodal video understanding. However, it remains unclear whether these models possess the cognitive capabilities required for high-level tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Chenglin Li , Qianglong Chen , Zhi Li , Feng Tao , Yin Zhang

By leveraging tool-augmented Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), multi-agent frameworks are driving progress in video understanding. However, most of them adopt static and non-learnable tool invocation mechanisms, which limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Boyu Chen , Zikang Wang , Zhengrong Yue , Kainan Yan , Chenyun Yu , Yi Huang , Zijun Liu , Yafei Wen , Xiaoxin Chen , Yang Liu , Peng Li , Yali Wang

Understanding long-form video content presents significant challenges due to its temporal complexity and the substantial computational resources required. In this work, we propose an agent-based approach to enhance both the efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sullam Jeoung , Goeric Huybrechts , Bhavana Ganesh , Aram Galstyan , Sravan Bodapati

Despite the potential of language model-based agents to solve real-world tasks such as web navigation, current methods still struggle with long-horizon tasks with complex action trajectories. In contrast, humans can flexibly solve complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Zora Zhiruo Wang , Jiayuan Mao , Daniel Fried , Graham Neubig

Capturing complex hierarchical human activities, from atomic actions (e.g., picking up one present, moving to the sofa, unwrapping the present) to contextual events (e.g., celebrating Christmas) is crucial for achieving high-performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yanan Wang , Shuichiro Haruta , Donghuo Zeng , Julio Vizcarra , Mori Kurokawa

While reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable success in enhancing large language models (LLMs), it has primarily focused on single-turn tasks such as solving math problems. Training effective web agents for multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zhepei Wei , Wenlin Yao , Yao Liu , Weizhi Zhang , Qin Lu , Liang Qiu , Changlong Yu , Puyang Xu , Chao Zhang , Bing Yin , Hyokun Yun , Lihong Li

Recent progress in multimodal large language models has markedly enhanced the understanding of short videos (typically under one minute), and several evaluation datasets have emerged accordingly. However, these advancements fall short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Weihan Wang , Zehai He , Wenyi Hong , Yean Cheng , Xiaohan Zhang , Ji Qi , Xiaotao Gu , Shiyu Huang , Bin Xu , Yuxiao Dong , Ming Ding , Jie Tang

Long video understanding requires more than large context windows. It also needs a memory mechanism that decides what visual evidence to retain, keeps it searchable over long horizons, and grounds later reasoning in recoverable observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aiden Yiliu Li , Nels Numan , Anthony Steed

The analysis of extended video content poses unique challenges in artificial intelligence, particularly when dealing with the complexity of tracking and understanding visual elements across time. Current methodologies that process video…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Meng Chu , Yicong Li , Tat-Seng Chua

To achieve successful assistance with long-horizon web-based tasks, AI agents must be able to sequentially follow real-world user instructions over a long period. Unlike existing web-based agent benchmarks, sequential instruction following…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Suyu Ye , Haojun Shi , Darren Shih , Hyokun Yun , Tanya Roosta , Tianmin Shu

Powered by a large language model (LLM), a web browsing agent operates web browsers in a human-like manner and offers a highly transparent path toward automating a wide range of everyday tasks. As web agents become increasingly capable and…

The rapid advancement of video generation has rendered existing evaluation systems inadequate for assessing state-of-the-art models, primarily due to simple prompts that cannot showcase the model's capabilities, fixed evaluation operators…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yuhang Yang , Ke Fan , Shangkun Sun , Hongxiang Li , Ailing Zeng , FeiLin Han , Wei Zhai , Wei Liu , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Long-form video understanding remains challenging due to the extended temporal structure and dense multimodal cues. Despite recent progress, many existing approaches still rely on hand-crafted reasoning pipelines or employ token-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yufei Yin , Qianke Meng , Minghao Chen , Jiajun Ding , Zhenwei Shao , Zhou Yu

Long video question answering requires locating sparse, time-scattered visual evidence within highly redundant content. Although current MLLMs perform well on short videos, long videos introduce long-horizon search and verification, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chenhao Qiu , Yechao Zhang , Xin Luo , Shien Song , Xusheng Liu