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New LAVE framework enhances video agent planning with latent visual evidence reuse

Researchers have introduced LAVE, a novel framework designed to enhance the planning capabilities of video tool-use agents. LAVE addresses the "Tool observation bottleneck" by enabling agents to reuse latent visual evidence from previous tool calls, rather than relying solely on textual summaries. This dual-channel interface preserves both textual trajectories and pre-verbal visual updates, allowing agents to integrate relevant, previously un-verbalized evidence. Experiments on benchmarks like Video-MME show LAVE significantly improves performance, achieving a 3.76-point increase in overall score under a comparable frame budget. AI

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New LAVE framework enhances video agent planning with latent visual evidence reuse

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Zijian Wang, Junnan Zhu, Rongzhen Li, Xiao Liu, Guohui Xiang, Quan Lu, Lijia Liu, Yining Wang, Jiang Zhong, Kaiwen Wei ·

    LAVE: Latent Visual Evidence-Enhanced Planning for Video Tool-use Agents

    arXiv:2608.07585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-video understanding requires models to efficiently acquire and reuse sparse visual evidence from long and redundant video streams. Recent video tool-use agents address this challenge by iteratively invoking visual Tools at di…

  2. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Kaiwen Wei ·

    LAVE: Latent Visual Evidence-Enhanced Planning for Video Tool-use Agents

    Long-video understanding requires models to efficiently acquire and reuse sparse visual evidence from long and redundant video streams. Recent video tool-use agents address this challenge by iteratively invoking visual Tools at different temporal scales, but their Tool-Planner co…