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OmniAgent uses active perception for efficient video understanding · 2 sources tracked

Researchers have introduced OmniAgent, a novel omni-modal agent designed for video understanding that utilizes an iterative Observation-Thought-Action cycle based on Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs). This approach allows the agent to selectively distill audio-visual cues into a textual memory, thereby decoupling reasoning complexity from raw video duration and improving computational efficiency. The paper details two key training methodologies: Agentic Supervised Fine-Tuning for bootstrapping active perception and Agentic Reinforcement Learning with TAURA for optimizing credit assignment. OmniAgent has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks like LVBench, outperforming larger models such as Qwen2.5-VL-72B. AI

IMPACT Introduces a more efficient approach to video understanding by selectively processing information, potentially reducing computational costs for long-form content analysis.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhenghao Xing, Ruiyang Xu, Yuxuan Wang, Jinzheng He, Ziyang Ma, Qize Yang, Yunfei Chu, Jin Xu, Junyang Lin, Chi-Wing Fu, Pheng-Ann Heng ·

    Native Active Perception as Reasoning for Omni-Modal Understanding

    arXiv:2606.19341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Passive models for long video understanding typically rely on a "watch-it-all" paradigm, processing frames uniformly regardless of query difficulty, causing computational cost to grow with video duration. Although interactive fram…

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

    Native Active Perception as Reasoning for Omni-Modal Understanding

    OmniAgent is a novel omni-modal agent that addresses long video understanding by using an iterative observation-thought-action cycle with active perception, achieving superior performance compared to larger models through efficient selective processing.

  3. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Pheng-Ann Heng ·

    Native Active Perception as Reasoning for Omni-Modal Understanding

    Passive models for long video understanding typically rely on a "watch-it-all" paradigm, processing frames uniformly regardless of query difficulty, causing computational cost to grow with video duration. Although interactive frameworks have emerged, they often rely on global pre…