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

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

    Peking University

  2. From Reasoning Failures to Composable Video Spatial Intelligence

    Oct 1, 2026Pengzhan Sun, Junbin Xiao, Ramanathan Rajaraman +2Spatial Reasoning BenchmarksVideo Reasoning

    National University of Singapore · University of Science and Technology of China

  3. VR-JEPA: Learning Contrastive-State Latent Guidance for Generation-based Video Reasoning

    Sep 30, 2026Zehua Ma, Kun Xiang, Yunshuang Nie +9Contrastive LearningPhysical Consistency in Video Generation

    Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute +3

  4. OmniReasoning: Pushing the Limits of Audio-Visual Joint Reasoning

    Sep 30, 2026Junming Lin, Yuxuan Wang, Zhenxin Lei +11On-Policy Self-DistillationMultimodal Reasoning

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University · State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Peking University · Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group

  5. Frame Differential On-Policy Self-Distillation for Video Reasoning

    Sep 30, 2026Haiying He, Xin Zheng, Shaoli Hu +4On-Policy Self-DistillationVideo Reasoning

    HKUST · NKU · SEU +1

  6. Does Local Video Understanding Transfer Across Encounters? The EgoGears Benchmark

    Sep 29, 2026Yuedong Tan, Lei Qi, Yu Liu +13Video UnderstandingEgocentric Video QA

    INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” · University of Würzburg · Technical University of Munich +2

  7. SYNCR: Diagnosing and Learning Cross-Video Reasoning from Simulation

    Sep 29, 2026Sara Ghazanfari, Siddharth Garg, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +1Video-Language Model EvaluationVideo Reasoning

    New York University

  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

    East China Normal University · University of Science and Technology of China · Xiamen University

  9. Learning via Self-Consistency for Diffusion-based Video Reasoning

    Sep 29, 2026Zhenghao Ni, Weimin Qiu, Meng TangVideo Diffusion ModelsSelf-Consistency Decoding

    University of Toronto · University of California, Merced

  10. Scaling Video Generation for Reasoning: At What Cost?

    Sep 29, 2026Weihang Guo, Xiaoyu Wu, Yifei Wang +2Video ReasoningAutoregressive Video Generation

    Rice University · Carnegie Mellon University

  11. Video-HopChain: Multi-Hop Questions and Confidence-Gated Exploration for Video Reasoning Models

    Sep 22, 2026Trung Nguyen Quang, Yuhao Dong, Shuo Sun +4Group Relative Policy OptimizationVideo Reasoning

    S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) · Johns Hopkins University · NTU

  12. VLX-VR: An Agentic-Aware Video Reasoning Model

    Sep 9, 2026Sheng Li, Peng Liu, Qianqian Zhang +1Video ReasoningMemory-Augmented Video Understanding

    Om AI Research

  13. Video-MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Video Understanding

    Sep 8, 2026Zhenxin Qin, Peng Shi, Cong Han +3Temporal Video GroundingVideo Understanding

    Tongji University · Bilibili Inc.

  14. Unfold The World: Factorize 4D Properties in Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning

    Sep 3, 2026Yijun Yang, Shenghe Zheng, Wenbo Li +8Visual Spatial Reasoning3D Spatial Reasoning

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Joy Future Academy · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1

  15. FoldingAgent: Inferring Parametric Origami Procedures from Demonstration Videos

    Aug 31, 2026Maya Moriya, Sigal Raab, Yael Vinker +1Tool-Using Vision-Language AgentsVideo Reasoning

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel · MIT, Boston, USA

  16. SocialReasonBench: A Video-QA Benchmark for Social Reasoning with Counterfactual Narrative Videos

    Aug 31, 2026Zheyu Huang, Zijing Shi, Haozhe Luo +4Video QAMultimodal Reasoning

    AAII, University of Technology Sydney · Northeastern University · Fudan University +1

  17. Deep Thought Alignment: Trajectory-Level Latent Distillation for Video Reasoning

    Aug 17, 2026Ao Shen, Yongheng Zhang, Yinghui Li +3VLM DistillationVideo Reasoning

    Tencent Youtu Lab · Fudan University

  18. UniTraffic-Agent: Unified Traffic Video Reasoning for AI City Challenge 2026 Track 3 with Two Out-of-Domain Evaluations

    Aug 13, 2026Peng Li, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao +2Pedestrian Intention PredictionIntelligent Transportation Systems

    School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), Beijing, China +1

  19. Motion-as-Prompt: Enhancing Motion Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via Motion-Guided Cross-Frame Visual Prompting

    Aug 12, 2026Xikai Sun, Kebin Liu, Haotian Wang +3Video ReasoningVLM Reasoning

    Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · JD Logistics, Beijing, China

  20. Order Matters: LVLMs as Judges for Temporal Reasoning in Image Sequences

    Aug 11, 2026Martina Ianaro, Guilherme Fernandes, Maurizio Gabbrielli +1VLM EvaluationVision-Language Models

    University of Bologna Bologna, Italy · NOVA School of Science and Technology NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics Lisbon, Portugal

  21. SCOUT: Self-Checking and Recovery-Aware Tool-Thought Agents for Ultra-Long Egocentric Video Reasoning

    Aug 8, 2026Keyang Zhong, Kuo Wang, Peng Liu +5Temporal Video GroundingGroup Relative Policy Optimization

    Sun Yat-sen University · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute · Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. +2

  22. SportsGrounder: Proposal-Aided Interleaved Grounding for Dense Sports Video Reasoning

    Aug 8, 2026Yizhi Li, Jiawei Jiang, Guanhong Wang +2Sports Video AnalysisVideo QA

    Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China · Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing, China

  23. I Seek You in Videos: Identity-Conditioned Queries for Person-Centric Video Reasoning

    Aug 7, 2026Shibo Gao, Chongxiao Wang, Chenglong Huang +10Video QAVision-Language Grounding

    School of Computing and Communications Lancaster University Lancaster, United Kingdom

  24. GST-Bench: Can VLMs Develop Global Spatial Awareness from Video?

    Aug 6, 2026Qifeng Zhang, Kaixiang Huang, Heng Dong +6VLM EvaluationSpatial Reasoning Benchmarks

    ByteDance Seed · Zhejiang University · National University of Singapore +1

  25. ChronoVision: Temporal Reasoning via Latent State Reconstruction

    Aug 6, 2026Yifan Shen, Jian Xu, Boyi Li +6Multimodal Large Language ModelsLatent Visual Reasoning

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · PediaMed AI · University of Pennsylvania

  26. From Sports to Safety: Benchmarking Proactive Risk Inference in MLLMs

    Aug 6, 2026Jiawei Qiu, Yichen Xu, Jianzhe Ma +5LLM Safety BenchmarksLanguage Model Safety Evaluation

    School of Information, Renmin University of China Beijing, China

  27. Perception Before Reasoning: Dynamic Latent Reasoning for Video Understanding and Question Answering

    Aug 4, 2026Haotian Xia, Zilin Xiao, Junbo Zou +2Video QALatent Visual Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science, Rice University · College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

  28. AdaThinkV: Adaptive Thinking for Token-Efficient Video Reasoning

    Aug 3, 2026Jingqi Tian, Haoji Zhang, Lin Chen +7Efficient VLM InferenceRL for Language Model Reasoning

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University · Alibaba Group · Peking University

  29. RRM: Experience-Driven Reflective Retrieval Memory for Long-Horizon Multimodal Reasoning

    Jul 30, 2026Jingxiang Fan, Junbao Zhuo, Bochao ZouMultimodal MemoryMultimodal Reasoning

    University of Science and Technology Beijing 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China

  30. EgoSafe: A First-Person Mobile-Captured Benchmark for Visual Safety Understanding

    Jul 29, 2026Yuyun Chen, Tianao Li, TianQuan Feng +4Egocentric Video UnderstandingVideo Reasoning

    South China University of Technology · Beihang University

  31. Visual prompt engineering for video models

    Jul 28, 2026Robert Geirhos, Yuxuan Li, Thaddäus Wiedemer +7Video ReasoningVisual Prompt Learning

    Google DeepMind

  32. CADER: Confidence-Aware Dynamic Evidence Reasoning for Long-Video Understanding

    Jul 27, 2026Jinlong Yang, Wenhao Zhang, Kuanwei Lin +1Tool Use in VLMsEfficient VLM Inference

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University · School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

  33. DispatchRAG: Grounding Emergency Dispatch Decisions in Real-World Protocols from Traffic Accident Video

    Jul 25, 2026Muhammad Sulthan Adhipradhana, Ehsan Javanmardi, Naren Bao +1Disaster ResponseVideo Reasoning

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  34. BasketEvent: Understanding Who Did What and When in Basketball Videos

    Jul 23, 2026Yu Zhang, Jiayuan Rao, Haoning Wu +1Sports Video AnalysisVideo Reasoning

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China

  35. An Interactive Vision Language Platform for Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia

    Jul 21, 2026Nassira Ait Mehdi, Milissa Temmam, Slimane LarabiVision-Language ModelsMental Health

    RIIMA Laboratory, Computer Science Faculty, USTHB University, 16111, Algeria

  36. ConsiSpace: Learning Geometric Consistency Matters for Video Spatial Reasoning

    Jul 20, 2026Ting Huang, Zhenyu Zhang, Wenyuan Huang +2Memory-Augmented VLMsVisual Spatial Reasoning

    School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Intelligent Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China

  37. Thinking in Video: Can Video Generators Really Reason About the Real World?

    Jul 20, 2026Yongheng Zhang, Guang Yang, Ruihan Hou +12Video ReasoningCausal Reasoning in Videos

    Central South University · Tencent · Tsinghua University

  38. Beyond the Single Camera: Agentic Multi-View Reasoning in Sports Video Understanding

    Jul 13, 2026Kerui Chen, Jinglu Wang, Xiaoyi Zhang +1Active PerceptionSports Video Analysis

    Zhejiang University · Microsoft Research Asia

  39. TreeSoc: Tree-Structured Dynamic Reasoning and Tool Synergy for Soccer Video Understanding

    Jul 13, 2026Thanh-Nhan Vo, Thanh-Khoi Nguyen, Trong-Thuan Nguyen +2Tool Use in VLMsSports Video Analysis

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · 2Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  40. Benchmarking Dynamic Affective Reasoning: A Viewer-Centric Video Emotion Dataset

    Jul 11, 2026Zhiyan Zhang, Peipei Song, Jinpeng Hu +3Video ReasoningCausal Reasoning in Videos

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China

  41. OpenCoF: Learning to Reason Through Video Generation

    Jul 9, 2026Xinyan Chen, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang +2Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Generation

    ByteDance Seed · CUHK IMIXR · CUHK MMLab

  42. TimeThink: Reasoning with Time for Video LLMs

    Jul 6, 2026Handong Li, Longteng Guo, Zikang Liu +8Temporal Video GroundingProcess Reward Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · OPPO AI Center, OPPO Inc.

  43. STAC: Selective Spatiotemporal Aggregation and Compression for Video Reasoning Segmentation

    Jul 3, 2026Syed Ariff Syed Hesham, Yun Liu, Guolei Sun +4Video ReasoningReasoning Segmentation

    School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore · VCIP, CS, Nankai University, Tianjin, China +4

  44. Learning to Evolve Scenes: Reasoning about Human Activities with Scene Graphs

    Jul 2, 2026Francesca Pistilli, Simone Alberto Peirone, Giuseppe AvertaScene Graph GenerationEgocentric Video Understanding

    Politecnico di Torino · Torino, Italy

  45. Latent Visual Cache for Video Reasoning

    Jul 1, 2026Yongheng Zhang, Zhipeng Xu, Hao Wu +4Memory-Augmented VLMsVision-Language Models

    1Tencent Youtu Lab · 2Tsinghua University · University of Illinois at Chicago

  46. EFlow: Learning Evidence Flow for Long-Video Reasoning with Adaptive Reflection

    Jul 1, 2026Wenhao Zhang, Kuanwei Lin, Xuyi Yang +2Long-Video UnderstandingVideo Reasoning

    School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  47. Linguistic Relative Policy Optimization for Video Anomaly Reasoning

    Jul 1, 2026Jiaxu Leng, Jiankang Zheng, Mengjingcheng Mo +4VLM AdaptationRL for Language Model Reasoning

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China · Chongqing College of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing, China

  48. HumanMoveVQA: Can Video MLLMs reason about human movement in videos?

    Jun 26, 2026Pulkit Gera, Faegheh Sardari, Asmar Nadeem +4VLM EvaluationSpatial Reasoning Benchmarks

    CVSSP, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK · Tesco, UK

  49. Reflect-R1: Evidence-Driven Reflection for Self-Correction in Long Video Understanding

    Jun 26, 2026Shuimu Chen, Yuteng Chen, Yuanshen Guan +7LLM Self-CorrectionLong-Video Understanding

    Tsinghua University · Nanyang Technological University · University of Science and Technology of China +4

  50. Video-MME-Logical: A Controlled Diagnostic Benchmark for Video Temporal-Logical Reasoning

    Jun 26, 2026Hohin Kwan, Hongyu Li, Ray Zhang +5VLM EvaluationMultimodal Large Language Models

    1HKUST · 2Colab, Beihang University · 3CUHK

  51. Confidence-Aware Tool Orchestration for Robust Video Understanding

    Jun 25, 2026Yangfan He, Yujin Choi, Jaehong YoonVLM RobustnessTool Use in VLMs

    1NTU Singapore · University of Minnesota, Twin Cities · 3UNIST

  52. WatchAct: A Benchmark for Behavior-Grounded Robot Manipulation

    Jun 24, 2026Baiqi Li, Ce Zhang, Yu Fang +4Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  53. FeVOS: Foresight Expression Video Object Segmentation

    Jun 24, 2026Kehan Lan, Kaining Ying, Henghui DingVideo Object SegmentationReferring Video Object Segmentation

    Institute of Big Data, College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, China

  54. SER: Learning to Ground Video Reasoning with Semantic Evidence Rewards

    Jun 23, 2026Sheng Xia, Zhengqin Lai, Tianxiang Jiang +4Temporal Video GroundingVideo Reasoning

    Nanjing University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen +2

  55. VideoLatent: Video-Language Learning via Latent Self-Forcing

    Jun 22, 2026Zi-Yuan Hu, Zicong Tang, Shijia Huang +3Multimodal Large Language ModelsLatent Visual Reasoning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Weitu AI

  56. HPP: Hierarchical Programmatic Probing for Long Video Understanding by Decoupling Perception and Reasoning

    Jun 19, 2026Awais Rauf, Ahmed Hasssan, Greg SlabaughVideo UnderstandingLong-Context Modeling

    Queen’s University Belfast · United Kingdom · AMD +2

  57. CARE: Competence-Aware Reward Shaping for Adaptive Reasoning Length in Video-MLLMs

    Jun 18, 2026Chengwen Liu, Hao Peng, Jisheng Dang +3Reward ShapingVideo Reasoning

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China · School of Medical Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  58. Reasoning as Intersection: Consensus-Frame Alignment for Visual Focus in Video-MLLMs

    Jun 16, 2026Chengwen Liu, Zhe Huang, Jisheng Dang +3Multimodal Reward ModelingVideo Reasoning

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · Cloud and AI BU, Huawei, Shenzhen, China +1

  59. Reasoning Text-to-Video Retrieval for Operating Room Clips via Action-Driven Digital Twins

    Jun 15, 2026Yiqing Shen, Hao Ding, Mathias UnberathSurgical Video UnderstandingVideo Representation Learning

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

  60. Training LLMs with Reinforcement Learning over Digital Twin Representations for Reasoning-Intensive Surgical VideoQA

    Jun 15, 2026Yiqing Shen, Han Zhang, Mathias UnberathRL for Language Model ReasoningMedical VQA

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA