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Select Less, Reason More: Prioritizing Evidence Purity for Video Reasoning

CVPR 2026 · Video Reasoning · Reinforcement Learning

Uniform frame sampling dilutes evidence in long videos, and existing pixel-space video agents lack reward mechanisms that enforce evidence purity or let them look beyond pre-sampled frames. This work introduces EARL, an evidence-aware reinforcement learning framework that turns the model into an active interrogator of evidence: it selects the most relevant frames and re-samples locally around them to recover fine-grained temporal detail. Across five video reasoning benchmarks the EARL-trained 7B model sets a new state of the art among open-source Video LLMs, reaching 59.8% on LongVideoBench, 69.0% on MVBench and 64.9% on VideoMME.

Look Less, Reason More: Rollout-Guided Adaptive Pixel-Space Reasoning

ACL 2026 · Vision-Language · Reinforcement Learning

Pixel-level visual operations help Vision-Language Models handle fine-grained detail, but they are routinely overused — costing efficiency and pulling attention toward irrelevant regions. This paper proposes the first framework for adaptive pixel reasoning, which decides per query whether a pixel operation is warranted: operation-aware supervised fine-tuning establishes baseline competence, then a rollout-guided reinforcement learning stage uses feedback from the model's own responses to learn when to invoke tools. The result reaches 73.4% accuracy on HR-Bench 4K at a tool usage ratio of only 20.1% — 66.5% less tool use than prior methods, with higher accuracy.

SimRPD: Optimizing Recruitment Proactive Dialogue Agents through Simulator-Based Data Evaluation and Selection

Oral ACL 2026 Industry · Dialogue Agents · Synthetic Data

Proactive dialogue agents steer recruitment conversations toward concrete business outcomes, but training them is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high-quality, goal-oriented domain data. SimRPD is a three-stage framework: a high-fidelity user simulator synthesizes large-scale multi-turn conversations, a Chain-of-Intention evaluation framework assesses the simulator and selects high-quality data using both global-level and instance-level metrics, and the agent is then trained on that selection. In a real-world recruitment scenario SimRPD outperforms existing simulator-based data selection strategies.

STAFDD: A Spatio-Temporal Automatic Fish Disease Detection Method

Aquaculture and Fisheries 2026 · Computer Vision · Aquaculture

Fish disease spreads rapidly in high-density aquaculture, where manual inspection is too slow to catch it early. STAFDD combines what a fish looks like with how it moves: SSCA-YOLO, an improved YOLOv8 with an SPD-CBS downsampling module, a small-object head and coordinate attention, detects body-surface abnormalities; ByteSort with ReID features tracks individuals into stable trajectories; an LSTM reads abnormal behaviour from those trajectories; and a learnable MLP gate fuses the two branches by confidence. On a dataset built from Aeromonas hydrophila-challenged Prussian carp, tracking reaches 89.74% HOTA and 94.05% MOTA, and overall classification accuracy reaches 96.86%.

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