arXiv:2607.00867cs.CV2026-07

提出EFlow框架,先找证据再推理,避免早期错误判断

EFlow: Learning Evidence Flow for Long-Video Reasoning with Adaptive Reflection

论文配图:EFlow: Learning Evidence Flow for Long-Video Reasoning with Adaptive Reflection
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  • 分两步走:先用思维链定位时间片段,再独立推理答案
  • 在5个数据集上显著提升长视频理解准确率,最高达12.7%提升
  • 引入自适应反思机制,证据不足时重新审视全视频

长视频推理受限于模型获取和利用视觉证据的方式。现有工具增强型视频框架常将时间定位与答案推理混在同一路径中,导致早期语义假设干扰证据定位。我们称之为过早语义承诺——偏差定位导致证据不全,不全证据又强化错误推理。为此,我们提出EFlow,一种基于Qwen3-VL的证据优先视频推理框架。EFlow通过思维链(CoT)实现时间定位与逻辑推理分离,使模型在推断答案前先精准检索相关证据。此外,EFlow引入置信度感知的反思机制,在证据可能不足时重新评估整段视频。我们还构建了专用轨迹数据集,并通过监督微调、强化学习及强化微调训练EFlow。在五个视频理解基准上的大量实验表明,EFlow持续提升长视频推理性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Long-video reasoning is fundamentally constrained by how models acquire and utilize visual evidence. Existing tool-augmented video frameworks often interleave temporal grounding and answer reasoning within a single trajectory, causing early semantic hypotheses to bias evidence localization. We term this failure mode premature semantic commitment, where biased grounding retrieves incomplete evidence and incomplete evidence further reinforces incorrect reasoning. To address this issue, we propose EFlow, an evidence-first video reasoning framework built upon Qwen3-VL. EFlow explicitly separates temporal grounding and logical reasoning through CoT for Temporal Grounding and CoT for Reasoning, enabling the model to retrieve relevant evidence before answer inference. In addition, EFlow introduces a confidence-aware reflection mechanism that re-evaluates the full video when retrieved evidence is potentially insufficient. We further construct dedicated trajectory datasets and train EFlow through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and reinforcement fine-tuning. Extensive experiments across five video understanding benchmarks demonstrate that EFlow consistently improves long-video reasoning performance.

视频推理证据优先思维链反思机制

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