See More, Think Deeper: Query-Expanded Visual Evidence and Answer-Clue Guided Reflection for Long Video Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09064v1
• Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:02:05 GMT
• Title: See More, Think Deeper: Query-Expanded Visual Evidence and Answer-Clue Guided Reflection for Long Video Understanding
• Abstract summary: CoVER enables Video-LLMs to textbfSee More by dynamically gathering query-expanded visual evidence, and textbfThink Deeper by verifying draft answers with effective answer-specific visual feedback.<n> Experimental results show that CoVER-7B substantially outperforms models with the same parameter scale and even surpasses state-of-the-art closed-source models on certain metrics.
• Score: 13.259795610663394
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have enabled performance on long-video understanding tasks. However, existing methods still face two key limitations: evidence acquisition often relies on a single search intent, and answer generation lacks an effective visual feedback mechanism. To address these limitations, we propose \textbf{CoVER}, a Comprehensive Visual Evidence and Reflection framework for long-video understanding. CoVER enables Video-LLMs to \textbf{See More} by dynamically gathering query-expanded visual evidence, and \textbf{Think Deeper} by verifying draft answers with effective answer-specific visual feedback. Together, these mechanisms shift long-video understanding from answer-centric generation to evidence-centric and visually verifiable reasoning. Experimental results show that CoVER-7B substantially outperforms models with the same parameter scale and even surpasses state-of-the-art closed-source models on certain metrics.

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