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New ReQuest pipeline enhances long-form video QA for LLMs

Researchers have developed ReQuest, a novel pipeline designed to improve question-answering capabilities for long-form videos. This method addresses the limitations of fixed input token budgets in multimodal large language models by employing an uncertainty-driven, question-adaptive keyframe selection process. ReQuest integrates a lightweight selector, a routing mechanism that triggers additional inference based on model uncertainty, and an adaptive non-maximum suppression technique to select relevant and temporally diverse frames. The system functions as a plug-and-play solution, enhancing performance on benchmarks like Video-MME, MLVU, and LongVideoBench without altering the core MLLM. AI

IMPACT This method could improve the efficiency and accuracy of AI systems processing long video content for question-answering tasks.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel method for improving video question-answering.

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    ReQuest: Rethinking-based Question-Aware Frame Selection for Long-Form Video QA

    Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have substantially advanced video understanding, yet long-form video QA remains challenging under fixed input token budgets, where uniform sampling can be inefficient for evidence localization. We propose ReQuest , an uncertainty-dr…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Minkuk Kim, Suyong Yun, Young Tae Kim, Jinyoung Moon, Jinwoo Choi, Seong Tae Kim ·

    ReQuest: Rethinking-based Question-Aware Frame Selection for Long-Form Video QA

    arXiv:2607.01737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have substantially advanced video understanding, yet long-form video QA remains challenging under fixed input token budgets, where uniform sampling can be inefficient for evidence loca…