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This research introduces CADER, a training-free framework that dynamically allocates computational resources for long-video understanding by skipping unnecessary tool-assisted processing on high-confidence samples. By estimating answer confidence via logit margins and activating deeper reasoning loops only when uncertainty warrants it, the method improves efficiency without sacrificing accuracy on VideoQA benchmarks. The approach demonstrates that adaptive inference strategies can bridge performance gaps between simple models and specialized tool-augmented systems in complex visual tasks.
CADER: Confidence-Aware Dynamic Evidence Reasoning for Long-Video Understanding
arXiv:2607.24582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-video understanding increasingly relies on large vision-language models and tool-augmented reasoning, but most systems apply the same inference procedure to every example regardless of difficulty. This uniform strategy invokes unnecessary tool-assisted processing for easy questions and provides limited control when difficult questions require fine-grained temporal evidence. We propose CADER (Confidence-Aware Dynamic Evidence Reasoning), a training-free framework for adaptive and reliable long-video reasoning. CADER first performs global reasoning over uniformly sampled frames and estimates answer confidence with a logit-margin signal, allowing high-confidence examples to exit early. For uncertain examples, CADER activates a second-stage tool-augmented loop that combines temporal cropping, lightweight semantic verification, and Relevance-Guided Resampling to progressively localize question-relevant evidence. This design treats tool use as a sample-level decision: a single global pass handles easy cases, while additional reasoning is reserved for examples where uncertainty suggests that more evidence is needed. Experiments on multiple VideoQA benchmarks show that CADER improves long-video reasoning while bypassing Stage~2 for high-confidence samples. Moreover, when applied to a backbone trained only with tool-free chain-of-thought supervision, CADER achieves competitive performance against specialized tool-augmented frameworks, suggesting a practical inference-time route for adaptive long-video reasoning.
Abstract:Long-video understanding increasingly relies on large vision-language models and tool-augmented reasoning, but most systems apply the same inference procedure to every example regardless of difficulty. This uniform strategy invokes unnecessary tool-assisted processing for easy questions and provides limited control when difficult questions require fine-grained temporal evidence. We propose CADER (Confidence-Aware Dynamic Evidence Reasoning), a training-free framework for adaptive and reliable long-video reasoning. CADER first performs global reasoning over uniformly sampled frames and estimates answer confidence with a logit-margin signal, allowing high-confidence examples to exit early. For uncertain examples, CADER activates a second-stage tool-augmented loop that combines temporal cropping, lightweight semantic verification, and Relevance-Guided Resampling to progressively localize question-relevant evidence. This design treats tool use as a sample-level decision: a single global pass handles easy cases, while additional reasoning is reserved for examples where uncertainty suggests that more evidence is needed. Experiments on multiple VideoQA benchmarks show that CADER improves long-video reasoning while bypassing Stage~2 for high-confidence samples. Moreover, when applied to a backbone trained only with tool-free chain-of-thought supervision, CADER achieves competitive performance against specialized tool-augmented frameworks, suggesting a practical inference-time route for adaptive long-video reasoning.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2607.24582 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2607.24582v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.24582 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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