Long video understanding is challenging due to dense visual redundancy, long-range temporal dependencies, and the tendency of chain-of-thought and retrieval-based agents to accumulate semantic drift and correlation-driven errors. We argue that long-video reasoning should begin not with reactive retrieval, but with deliberate task formulation: the model must first articulate what must be true in the video for each candidate answer to hold. This thinking-before-finding principle motivates VideoHV-Agent, a framework that reformulates video question answering as a structured hypothesis-verification process.Based on video summaries, a Thinker rewrites answer candidates into testable hypotheses, a Judge derives a discriminative clue specifying what evidence must be checked, a Verifier grounds and tests the clue using localized, fine-grained video content, and an Answer agent integrates validated evidence to produce the final answer.Experiments on three long-video understanding benchmarks show that VideoHV-Agent achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while providing enhanced interpretability, improved logical soundness, and lower computational cost.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表
Narrative image generation aims to create images featuring multiple distinct characters while capturing their interrelationships, posing significant challenges for current text-to-image diffusion models. As a result, general personalized methods often suffer from poor semantic alignment, identity blending, and aesthetic implausibility.These issues are inadequately captured by existing evaluation metrics such as CLIP, ArcFace, and conventional reward models, which fundamentally fail to align with human perceptual preferences. To align with human preferences, we first construct a fine-grained human preference dataset, NI-RLHF, by collecting both detailed human critiques and preference judgments across three core dimensions: prompt following, identity consistency, and visual quality.This comprehensive dataset facilitates the training of NIReward, a critique-based reward model capable of generating interpretable image evaluations.Building upon the interpretable reward signal from NIReward, we propose Adaptive Dominance-based Preference Optimization (ADPO) to balance learning across diverse preference dimensions while dynamically adapting to reward margins.Experimental results indicate that NIReward significantly outperforms existing evaluation models and reward models, and ADPO yields a significant improvement across the three key preference dimensions. By introducing NIReward and ADPO, our work paves the way for generating narrative images aligned with actual human preferences.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表