Learning to Watch: Active Video Anomaly Understanding via Interleaved Policy Optimization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00622v1
• Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:41:49 GMT
• Title: Learning to Watch: Active Video Anomaly Understanding via Interleaved Policy Optimization
• Abstract summary: Video anomaly understanding (VAU) relies on sparse, context-dependent cues.<n>We propose $Anomtext-$, a closed-loop framework that reconceptualizes video understanding as an active sequential decision-making process.<n>Inspired by human video-reviewing behavior, this framework unifies internal cognitive reasoning and strategic evidence acquisition into an interleaved policy.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Video anomaly understanding (VAU) relies on sparse, context-dependent cues. However, existing passive paradigms suffer from observational aliasing, where static sampling fails to disambiguate semantically distinct events. To overcome this, we propose $Anom\text{-}π$, a closed-loop framework that reconceptualizes video understanding as an active sequential decision-making process within a dynamic environment. Inspired by human video-reviewing behavior, this framework unifies internal cognitive reasoning and strategic evidence acquisition into an interleaved policy, utilizing temporal atomic operators such as local backtracking, temporal expansion, and fine-grained sampling to endow the model with perceptual proactivity. To learn such complex interaction strategies under video-level weak supervision, we design Interactive Direct Preference Optimization (iDPO) to achieve trajectory-level policy alignment, guided by an Active Evidence Inquiry (AEI) utility that balances task success, informative evidence acquisition, and interaction cost. This approach enables the agent to learn to actively disambiguate hypotheses while suppressing redundant exploration. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework, with only 2B parameters, achieves highly competitive performance, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art large-scale VAU models in complex scenarios.

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