LongVideoAgent: Multi-Agent Reasoning with Long Videos
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