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VideoXAgent tackles long video understanding with online agent harness

Researchers have developed VideoXAgent, an online harness designed for understanding long videos. This system plans tasks, uses specialized tools like VLMs, OCR, and ASR on demand, and aggregates evidence to answer queries. VideoXAgent aims to overcome the limitations of context rot and high computational costs associated with packing entire videos into a single context window. It demonstrates competitive performance on benchmarks like Video-MME-Long and MINERVA, even with a significantly smaller context footprint compared to dense-packing baselines. AI

IMPACT This approach could enable more efficient and effective analysis of lengthy video content, impacting fields that rely on video data processing.

RANK_REASON The item is a research paper detailing a new system for long video understanding. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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VideoXAgent tackles long video understanding with online agent harness

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 Norsk(NO) · Sen Yang, Boqiang Duan, Jing Yang, Weihao Bo, Jie Liu, Boyuan Tong, Ze Feng, Wenkang Zhang, Jingdong Wang, Hua Wu ·

    Online Video Agent Harness for Long Video Understanding

    arXiv:2609.12818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long video understanding often behaves like a visual needle-in-a-haystack problem: query-relevant evidence is sparsely distributed across long temporal spans, while packing dense frames into a single VLM context incurs \textit{conte…