Overview

Video reasoning asks models to interpret how people, objects, and scenes change over time, rather than rely only on information in individual frames. Common approaches include multimodal language models with temporal grounding, event or scene graphs, memory and retrieval for long videos, and agents that select frames or use tools; reinforcement learning increasingly rewards answers tied to visual evidence. Benchmarks test video question answering, temporal localization, causal and spatial reasoning, egocentric understanding, and cross-view or cross-video inference. A central challenge is ensuring that fluent reasoning reflects correctly perceived and grounded evidence, especially over long horizons, while keeping computation manageable.

Latest papers

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211 papers33 papers in the last four weeks, up 267% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

  1. MME-CoF-Pro: Evaluating Reasoning Coherence in Video Generative Models with Text and Visual Hints

    Mar 20, 2026Yu Qi, Xinyi Xu, Ziyu Guo +10Video ReasoningVideo Generation Evaluation

  2. VideoSeek: Long-Horizon Video Agent with Tool-Guided Seeking

    Mar 20, 2026Jingyang Lin, Jialian Wu, Jiang Liu +6Long-Video UnderstandingVideo Reasoning

  3. Narrative Aligned Long Form Video Question Answering

    Mar 19, 2026Rahul Jain, Keval Doshi, Burak Uzkent +1Video ReasoningLong-Video QA

  4. Motion-o: Trajectory-Grounded Video Reasoning

    Mar 19, 2026Bishoy Galoaa, Shayda Moezzi, Xiangyu Bai +1Video ReasoningVLM Reasoning

  5. Insight-V++: Towards Advanced Long-Chain Visual Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models

    Mar 18, 2026Yuhao Dong, Zuyan Liu, Shulin Tian +2VLM ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

  6. Demystifying Video Reasoning

    Mar 17, 2026Ruisi Wang, Zhongang Cai, Fanyi Pu +11Video ReasoningVideo Diffusion Models

  7. When Thinking Hurts: Mitigating Visual Forgetting in Video Reasoning via Frame Repetition

    Mar 17, 2026Xiaokun Sun, Yubo Wang, Haoyu Cao +1Video ReasoningVideo QA

  8. From Passive Observer to Active Critic: Reinforcement Learning Elicits Process Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation

    Mar 16, 2026Yibin Liu, Yaxing Lyu, Daqi Gao +5Robot Task Progress EstimationRobotics

  9. Clue Matters: Leveraging Latent Visual Clues to Empower Video Reasoning

    Mar 16, 2026Kaixin zhang, Xiaohe Li, Jiahao Li +4Video ReasoningVideo QA

  10. A Skill-augmented Agentic Framework and Benchmark for Multi-Video Understanding

    Mar 16, 2026Yue Zhang, Liqiang Jing, Jia Li +4Video UnderstandingMultimodal QA

  11. VisionCoach: Reinforcing Grounded Video Reasoning via Visual-Perception Prompting

    Mar 15, 2026Daeun Lee, Shoubin Yu, Yue Zhang +1RL for Video ReasoningVideo Reasoning

  12. A Multi-Agent Perception-Action Alliance for Efficient Long Video Reasoning

    Mar 14, 2026Yichang Xu, Gaowen Liu, Ramana Rao Kompella +6Video ReasoningLong-Video QA

  13. WAT: Online Video Understanding Needs Watching Before Thinking

    Mar 12, 2026Zifan Han, Hongbo Sun, Jinglin Xu +6Streaming Video UnderstandingVideo Reasoning

  14. Think While Watching: Online Streaming Segment-Level Memory for Multi-Turn Video Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Mar 12, 2026Lu Wang, Zhuoran Jin, Yupu Hao +4Streaming Video UnderstandingVideo Reasoning

  15. Are Video Reasoning Models Ready to Go Outside?

    Mar 11, 2026Yangfan He, Changgyu Boo, Jaehong YoonVLM RobustnessVideo Reasoning

  16. From Imitation to Intuition: Intrinsic Reasoning for Open-Instance Video Classification

    Mar 11, 2026Ke Zhang, Xiangchen Zhao, Yunjie Tian +3VLM ReasoningVideo Reasoning

  17. What if? Emulative Simulation with World Models for Situated Reasoning

    Mar 6, 2026Ruiping Liu, Yufan Chen, Yuheng Zhang +8Visual Spatial ReasoningVideo Reasoning

  18. Think, Then Verify: A Hypothesis-Verification Multi-Agent Framework for Long Video Understanding

    Mar 5, 2026Zheng Wang, Haoran Chen, Haoxuan Qin +3Long-Video UnderstandingLong-Video QA

  19. ObjChangeVR: Object State Change Reasoning from Continuous Egocentric Views in VR Environments

    Feb 27, 2026Shiyi Ding, Shaoen Wu, Ying ChenVisual ReasoningVideo Reasoning

  20. APPO: Attention-guided Perception Policy Optimization for Video Reasoning

    Feb 27, 2026Henghui Du, Chang Zhou, Xi Chen +1Video ReasoningFine-Grained Visual Perception

  21. WaterVideoQA: ASV-Centric Perception and Rule-Compliant Reasoning via Multi-Modal Agents

    Feb 26, 2026Runwei Guan, Shaofeng Liang, Ningwei Ouyang +9Video QAVideo Reasoning

  22. PyVision-RL: Forging Open Agentic Vision Models via RL

    Feb 24, 2026Shitian Zhao, Shaoheng Lin, Ming Li +4Adaptive Video Frame SamplingMultimodal Agents

  23. A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite

    Feb 23, 2026Maijunxian Wang, Ruisi Wang, Juyi Lin +53Reasoning EvaluationVideo Reasoning

  24. GraphThinker: Reinforcing Temporally Grounded Video Reasoning with Event Graph Thinking

    Feb 19, 2026Zixu Cheng, Da Li, Jian Hu +4Video SGGVideo Reasoning

  25. TimeBlind: A Spatio-Temporal Compositionality Benchmark for Video LLMs

    Jan 30, 2026Baiqi Li, Kangyi Zhao, Ce Zhang +3VLM EvaluationVideo Understanding

  26. CASHEW: Stabilizing Multimodal Reasoning via Iterative Trajectory Aggregation

    Jan 12, 2026Chaoyu Li, Fei Tao, Pooyan FazliTest-Time Scaling for VLMsTest-Time Scaling

  27. VKnowU: Evaluating Visual Knowledge Understanding in Multimodal LLMs

    Nov 25, 2025Tianxiang Jiang, Sheng Xia, Yicheng Xu +5VLM EvaluationMultimodal Large Language Models

  28. TEMPURA: Temporal Event Masked Prediction and Understanding for Reasoning in Action

    May 2, 2025Jen-Hao Cheng, Yi-Hao Peng, Huapeng Zhou +11Temporal Action SegmentationTemporal Video Grounding