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CoVR-R:Reason-Aware Composed Video Retrieval

arXiv · · CV RL

A new approach to composed video retrieval (CoVR) is presented, which leverages large multimodal models to infer causal and temporal consequences implied by an edit. The method aligns reasoned queries to candidate videos without task-specific finetuning. A new benchmark, CoVR-Reason, is introduced to evaluate reasoning in CoVR.