Long-Video QA

QA: Question Answering

Overview

Long-video question answering studies how to answer questions that depend on events, people, or details spread across lengthy recordings. Common approaches select a small set of relevant frames, retrieve clips at multiple time scales, or organize content into event, entity, and scene-graph memories; agentic systems can search, verify evidence, and decide when to stop. Methods are evaluated on benchmarks such as Video-MME, LongVideoBench, LVBench, and egocentric video QA tasks, with growing attention to streaming and audio-visual settings. A central challenge is balancing accuracy and efficiency while ensuring answers are supported by correctly localized evidence, especially when clues are distant, personal, or spread across multiple scenes.

Latest papers

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89 papers11 papers in the last four weeks, level with the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Retrieval-Augmented Online Textual Memory for Episodic Memory Video Question Answering

    Oct 22, 2026Raffaele Cali, Giuseppe Lando, Rosario Forte +1Egocentric Video QAVideo QA

  2. Write Once, Query Many: Evolving Compact Reusable Memory for Long Videos

    Oct 17, 2026Kerui Chen, Jinglu Wang, Yun Wang +2Memory-Augmented Video UnderstandingMemory-Augmented VLMs

  3. Memory Internalization via Test-Time Training for Long-Video Understanding

    Oct 17, 2026Haonan Zhao, Jiaxuan Chen, Qingyang Liu +4Memory-Augmented Video UnderstandingLong-Video QA

  4. VAMR: Multi-Question Agentic Reasoning for Efficient Long-Form Video Understanding

    Oct 8, 2026Runquan Gui, Hanzhu Chen, Zehao Wang +3Long-Video QAVideo QA

  5. CASE: Cost-Aware Stopping for Efficient Long-Video Agents

    Oct 4, 2026Yiming Du, Chenghao Liu, Zhiyuan Liu +4Efficient VLM InferenceVideo Reasoning

  6. LEAP: Learned Block-wise Evidence Retrieval for Long Audio-Video Perception

    Sep 30, 2026Juyi Lin, Zhiqiang Lao, Jiali Cui +9Audio-Visual QALong-Video QA

  7. Beyond the Timeline: Augmenting Long-Video Memory with Grounded Entity Biographies

    Sep 29, 2026Hui Ren, Lei Fan, Henry Pao +5Multimodal MemoryQuestion Answering

  8. Watch-Think-Interact: Bootstrapping Long-Horizon Multi-Turn Streaming Video Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 29, 2026Ziheng Huang, Yicheng Bao, Xueheng Li +8Streaming Video UnderstandingVideo QA

  9. MetaSampling: Making Frame Samplers Efficient for Long-Video Question Answering

    Sep 27, 2026Ashim Dahal, Bikramjit BanerjeeMultimodal Large Language ModelsAdaptive Sampling

  10. CueKFS: Agentic Cue-Driven Keyframe Selection for Long Video Understanding

    Sep 25, 2026Weitai Kang, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Yumo Xu +3Query-Aware Video Frame SelectionLong-Video Understanding

  11. Query-aligned video frame selection for long video understanding

    Sep 15, 2026Md. Safayet Islam, Dilip Sarkar, Liang LiangQuery-Aware Video Frame SelectionLong-Video QA

  12. Long-to-Short Video Evidence Reasoning for Grounded Question Answering

    Sep 14, 2026Kaiyan Chen, Junbin Xiao, Xun YangTemporal Video GroundingVideo QA

  13. One Skill Does Not Fit All: Automatic Discovery and Taxonomy-Guided Routing of Frame-Selection Skills for Long-Video Question Answering

    Sep 11, 2026Jian Hu, Zixu Cheng, Da Li +3LLM Agent Skill LearningLong-Video QA

  14. Caption-once, Frames-on-Demand: Visual-Need Routing for Budget-Aware Agentic Long Video Understanding

    Sep 10, 2026Weitong Cai, Hang Zhang, Yukai Huang +6Memory-Augmented VLMsEfficient VLM Inference

  15. CAM: Question Answering on Entity-Centric Videos with Continuous Extraction and Adaptive Querying

    Sep 6, 2026Yizhou Tian, Zizhe Chen, Shiyuan Deng +7Video QALong-Video QA

  16. EM^2Mem: Event-Centric Multimodal Memory for Large Language Models

    Sep 1, 2026Yijun Chen, Yaqi Zheng, Yanya Li +11Multimodal RAGEfficient Multimodal Inference

  17. From Intent to Evidence: Policy-Steered Multi-Strategy Retrieval for Long-Video Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Can Zhang, Baofeng Zhang, Xiaotian Han +5Long-Video UnderstandingLong-Video QA

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

    Aug 26, 2026Baixuan Xu, Yinyui Xu, Tianshi Zheng +9Long-Video QALong-Video Understanding

  19. Coarse Indexing, Fine Evidence: Decoupling Temporal Granularity in Long-Video RAG

    Aug 24, 2026Zhe Jin, Zhimin Lin, Bin Zheng +2Graph Retrieval-Augmented GenerationLong-Video QA

  20. TRACE: Temporal Retrieval with Anchored and Convergent Evidence for Long-Horizon Video Understanding

    Aug 23, 2026Pengyiang Liu, Junbo Niu, Xiaoyang Hu +4Video QALong-Video Understanding

  21. Routing Before Looking: Query-Adaptive Evidence Acquisition for Long-form Video Understanding

    Aug 21, 2026Tianyue Wang, Xuying Wu, Yuxiang Ma +7Adaptive RetrievalLong-Video Understanding

  22. NARU: A Benchmark for NARrative Evolution and Cultural Nuance Understanding in Japanese Extreme Long Video

    Aug 13, 2026Yuheng Huang, Jianlang Chen, Jiayang Song +6Video UnderstandingVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  23. R4DSG: Relative 4D Scene Graph Memory for Object-Centric Question Answering in Long Egocentric Video

    Aug 11, 2026Ke Ma, Yamin Mao, Weiming Li +5Egocentric Video QAVideo QA

  24. REVEAL: A Rubric-Guided Agent for Explicit Evidence Sufficiency Verificationin Long-Video Question Answering

    Aug 9, 2026Caijun Yan, Yang Zhou, Meixing Shi +4Video QALong-Video QA