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AVA-Encoder introduces an agentic auto-encoding framework that converts video content into a structured Film Knowledge Graph, enabling AI agents to reason over cinematic elements like entities and events. By optimizing reconstruction residuals through dual-loop textual-gradient methods, the system significantly improves representation fidelity while reducing reliance on extensive prompt tokens compared to human-tuned baselines. This work advances agent-native learning for high-quality video generation by bridging unstructured visual data with manipulatable graph structures.
AVA-Encoder: Towards Agent-Native Video Representation Learning
arXiv:2608.12313v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video creative agents still lack an effective way to learn from high-quality human films, limiting their ability to produce cinematic-grade videos. A key challenge is the absence of a structured video representation that is both faithful to film content and directly usable for agentic reasoning and manipulation. To address the challenge, we propose the Agentic Video Auto-Encoder (AVA-Encoder), a novel auto-encoding framework driven by agentic self-evolution to learn agent-native video representations. AVA-Encoder transforms a video into a Film Knowledge Graph (KG) representation and then reconstructs it back into video. This Film KG representation explicitly captures entities, events, assets, and their multimodal relationships in a structured form that can be easily understood, queried, and manipulated by agents. The reconstruction residual drives a dual-loop textual-gradient optimization framework that jointly improves the Film KG representation and the Agentic Video Encoder. Extensive experiments show that AVA-Encoder achieves a 20.7-percentage-point absolute gain, or a 73.1% relative improvement, over the strongest external baseline. In the controlled policy-only setting, its pseudo-trained Agentic Video Encoder policy also outperforms a carefully human-tuned policy while using 74.3% fewer shot-level and 70.1% fewer keyframe-level system-prompt tokens. We release the complete AVA-Encoder framework, a reliable agentic video reconstruction benchmark, and the first dataset of high-quality Film KG representations.
Abstract:Video creative agents still lack an effective way to learn from high-quality human films, limiting their ability to produce cinematic-grade videos. A key challenge is the absence of a structured video representation that is both faithful to film content and directly usable for agentic reasoning and manipulation. To address the challenge, we propose the Agentic Video Auto-Encoder (AVA-Encoder), a novel auto-encoding framework driven by agentic self-evolution to learn agent-native video representations. AVA-Encoder transforms a video into a Film Knowledge Graph (KG) representation and then reconstructs it back into video. This Film KG representation explicitly captures entities, events, assets, and their multimodal relationships in a structured form that can be easily understood, queried, and manipulated by agents. The reconstruction residual drives a dual-loop textual-gradient optimization framework that jointly improves the Film KG representation and the Agentic Video Encoder. Extensive experiments show that AVA-Encoder achieves a 20.7-percentage-point absolute gain, or a 73.1% relative improvement, over the strongest external baseline. In the controlled policy-only setting, its pseudo-trained Agentic Video Encoder policy also outperforms a carefully human-tuned policy while using 74.3% fewer shot-level and 70.1% fewer keyframe-level system-prompt tokens. We release the complete AVA-Encoder framework, a reliable agentic video reconstruction benchmark, and the first dataset of high-quality Film KG representations.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2608.12313 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2608.12313v2 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.12313 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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