LongVideoAgent: Multi-Agent Reasoning with Long Videos

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Authors: Runtao Liu, Ziyi Liu, Jiaqi Tang, Yue Ma, Renjie Pi, Jipeng Zhang, Qifeng Chen
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Abstract

Recent advances in multimodal LLMs and systems that use tools for long-video QA point to the promise of reasoning over hour-long episodes.However, many methods still compress content into lossy summaries or rely on limited toolsets, weakening temporal grounding and missing fine-grained cues.We propose a multi-agent framework in which a master LLM coordinates a grounding agent to localize question-relevant segments and a vision agent to extract targeted textual observations.The master agent plans with a step limit, and is trained with reinforcement learning to encourage concise, correct, and efficient multi-agent cooperation.This design helps the master agent focus on relevant clips via grounding, complements subtitles with visual detail, and yields interpretable trajectories.On our proposed LongTVQA and LongTVQA+ which are episode-level datasets aggregated from TVQA/TVQA+, our multiagent system significantly outperforms strong non-agent baselines.Experiments also show reinforcement learning further strengthens reasoning and planning for the trained agent.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Multimodal Machine Learning Applications AI-based Problem Solving and Planning Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages
40404–40416
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN