VideoSearch-R1: Iterative Video Retrieval and Reasoning via Soft Query Refinement
arXiv cs.CV1mo4 min read
arXiv:2607.00446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As video corpora continue to expand in both scale and task complexity, there is increasing demand for approaches that retrieve relevant videos from large-scale corpora (inter-video reasoning) and subsequently perform fine-grained, query-conditioned tasks (intra-video reasoning) within the retrieved content, such as temporal grounding. However, existing approaches typically treat retrieval as a preprocessing step, and consequently, when the initial retrieval fails, there is no mechanism to refine the search, leading to the failure of subsequent fi