arxiv: 2605.01662 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-03 · 💻 cs.CV

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Video Active Perception: Effective Inference-Time Long-Form Video Understanding with Vision-Language Models

Martin Q. Ma , Willis Guo , Aditya Agrawal , Ankit Gupta , Paul Pu Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

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keywords video question answeringactive perceptionkeyframe selectionvision-language modelszero-shot learninglong-form video understandinginference-time optimizationtraining-free methods

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Treating keyframe selection as active perception with a video generation model as prior knowledge allows vision-language models to achieve state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on long-form video QA with up to 5.6 times higher frame效率.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to demonstrate that uniform frame sampling wastes compute and limits reasoning in vision-language models on long videos, while active perception principles—acquiring data that differs from expectations—can guide more effective selection. It introduces a training-free method that represents prior world knowledge through a lightweight text-conditioned video generation model and chooses keyframes accordingly. This leads to stronger results on reasoning-focused QA benchmarks while processing far fewer frames per question. A sympathetic reader would care because it directly tackles the scalability barrier of long-form video understanding without requiring model retraining or additional data.

Core claim

Video Active Perception (VAP) is a training-free inference-time approach that models keyframe selection as data acquisition under active perception theory. By using a lightweight text-conditioned video generation model to embody prior world knowledge, VAP selects frames that differ from generated expectations, supplying vision-language models with more informative inputs for question answering. This yields state-of-the-art zero-shot results on EgoSchema, NExT-QA, ActivityNet-QA, IntentQA, and CLEVRER while delivering up to 5.6 times greater frame efficiency than uniform sampling with models such as GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and LLaVA-OV.

What carries the argument

The text-conditioned video generation model serving as proxy for prior world knowledge to drive active-perception keyframe selection that maximizes information gain for the vision-language model.

If this is right

Vision-language models can answer long-form and reasoning questions with substantially fewer frames while maintaining or improving accuracy.
Keyframe choices become more aligned with question content rather than uniform coverage of the entire video.
No additional training or fine-tuning is required to obtain the efficiency and accuracy gains on multiple public benchmarks.
Reasoning performance improves on tasks that depend on temporal and causal understanding across video segments.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same expectation-based selection could be applied at test time to other multimodal tasks such as video captioning or temporal action localization.
Replacing the current lightweight generator with a stronger one might further increase the quality of the prior and the resulting efficiency gains.
The method opens a path to hybrid systems that combine active perception at inference time with lightweight adaptation of the underlying vision-language model.

Load-bearing premise

A lightweight text-conditioned video generation model supplies a reliable enough proxy for the vision-language model's prior knowledge to identify frames that actually improve question-answering performance.

What would settle it

On a held-out video QA dataset where the generation model produces frames that closely match the actual video content yet VAP still underperforms uniform sampling in accuracy or efficiency.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.01662 by Aditya Agrawal, Ankit Gupta, Louis-Philippe Morency, Martin Q. Ma, Paul Pu Liang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Willis Guo.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: VAP outperforms standard uniform sampling GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 and LLaVA-OV on EgoSchema, NExT-QA, ActivityNet-QA, IntentQA, and CLEVRER with up to 5.6× more efficient on frame per question. VAP also achieves better latency under the same performance with GPT-4o mini compared to standard sampling due to using fewer frames. ActivityNet-QA [59], IntentQA [23], and the reasoning dataset CLEVRER [55]. Performanc… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of Video Active Perception model ( view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: VAP also outperforms frame selection baselines with multiple number of frames when compared to other baselines. Model Num. Frames NExT-QA Tem. Cau. Des. Avg. GPT-4o 32 69.6 68.9 70.6 69.4 GPT-4o 44 67.6 71.9 75.8 71.2 GPT-4o 48 68.3 70.1 67.8 69.2 GPT-4o 64 67.8 70.0 68.5 69.1 view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Qualitative analyzes show that VAP can select key transitioning frames relevant for question-answering, including action frames towards end of video (first example), keyframes at both the beginning and at the end of the video (second example), unseen key collision frames (third example), and frames that demonstrate the pivotal pre-collision and post-collision moments for counterfactual question (fourth exa… view at source ↗

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Large vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced multimodal tasks such as video question answering (QA). However, VLMs face the challenge of selecting frames effectively and efficiently, as standard uniform sampling is expensive and performance may plateau. Inspired by active perception theory, which posits that models gain information by acquiring data that differs from their expectations, we introduce Video Active Perception (VAP), a training-free method to enhance long-form video QA using VLMs. Our approach treats keyframe selection as data acquisition in active perception and leverages a lightweight text-conditioned video generation model to represent prior world knowledge. Empirically, VAP achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot results on long-form or reasoning video QA datasets such as EgoSchema, NExT-QA, ActivityNet-QA, IntentQA, and CLEVRER, achieving an increase of up to 5.6 x frame efficiency by frames per question over standard GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and LLaVA-OV. Moreover, VAP shows stronger reasoning abilities than previous methods and effectively selects keyframes relevant to questions. These findings highlight the potential of leveraging active perception to improve the frame effectiveness and efficiency of long-form video QA.

Editorial analysis

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VAP applies active perception to inference-time keyframe selection via a text-conditioned video generator and reports efficiency gains on video QA, but the method details and controls are too thin to judge robustness.

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This paper introduces Video Active Perception (VAP), a training-free way to pick keyframes for long-form video QA by treating a lightweight text-conditioned video generator as a prior for expectations and selecting frames that differ from them. The main practical angle is the efficiency claim: up to 5.6x fewer frames per question while matching or beating standard VLMs like GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro on EgoSchema, NExT-QA, ActivityNet-QA, IntentQA, and CLEVRER, plus some evidence of better reasoning and more relevant frames. That combination of zero-shot operation and measurable frame savings is the part worth paying attention to if it holds up. The work does a reasonable job showing the idea can be implemented without retraining and that it produces visible gains over uniform sampling on the reported datasets. The active-perception framing gives a clean motivation that is not just another heuristic. The soft spots are the missing pieces that make the gains hard to trust. The abstract and summary give no exact selection rule, no ablation against simpler priors or random selection, and no statistical tests or variance numbers. Without those, it is difficult to know whether the video generator is actually supplying useful world knowledge or whether any non-uniform sampler would have produced similar numbers. The domain match between the generator and the target videos (egocentric versus web-scale) is also unexamined. This is the kind of paper that belongs in a reading group for people working on efficient multimodal inference. It has a clear, testable idea and real-world relevance, so it deserves peer review to get the missing controls and algorithm details filled in. I would send it out rather than desk-reject.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Video Active Perception (VAP), a training-free method for long-form video question answering with vision-language models. It frames keyframe selection as an active perception process, using a lightweight text-conditioned video generation model to encode prior world knowledge and selecting frames whose content deviates from the model's generated expectations. The approach is evaluated zero-shot on EgoSchema, NExT-QA, ActivityNet-QA, IntentQA, and CLEVRER, claiming state-of-the-art results together with up to 5.6× improvement in frames-per-question efficiency relative to GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and LLaVA-OV.

Significance. If the gains prove robust, the work would be significant for inference-time video understanding: it offers a principled, training-free route to higher frame efficiency and stronger reasoning by importing active-perception ideas into VLM pipelines. The explicit use of a generative prior as a proxy for world knowledge is a distinctive technical choice that, if validated, could generalize beyond the reported QA tasks.

major comments (3)

[§3.2–3.3] §3.2–3.3: The central claim that the text-conditioned video generation model supplies a reliable proxy for prior knowledge is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative measure of generation fidelity (e.g., FID, CLIP similarity, or human preference) on the target domains (egocentric, web, or synthetic). Without such evidence the active-perception step risks reducing to an unverified heuristic.
[§4.1 and §5.1] §4.1 and §5.1: No ablation isolates the contribution of the discrepancy-based selection against uniform sampling or random selection at identical frame budgets; the reported efficiency gains therefore cannot be attributed unambiguously to the active-perception mechanism rather than simply to the choice of total frame count.
[§5.2, Tables 2–4] §5.2, Tables 2–4: Performance numbers are presented without standard deviations across multiple runs, without statistical significance tests, and without details of the exact keyframe-selection algorithm (threshold, top-k rule, or stopping criterion). This prevents verification that the claimed SOTA margins are stable.

minor comments (2)

[Eq. 3] The notation for the discrepancy score (Eq. 3) is introduced without an explicit definition of the distance metric or the conditioning text used for generation; a short pseudocode block would improve reproducibility.
[Figure 3] Figure 3 caption does not state the exact number of frames shown or the source of the ground-truth question; readers cannot judge whether the visualized keyframes are representative.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below and describe the revisions that will be incorporated to strengthen the manuscript.

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Referee: [§3.2–3.3] §3.2–3.3: The central claim that the text-conditioned video generation model supplies a reliable proxy for prior knowledge is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative measure of generation fidelity (e.g., FID, CLIP similarity, or human preference) on the target domains (egocentric, web, or synthetic). Without such evidence the active-perception step risks reducing to an unverified heuristic.

Authors: We agree that quantitative evidence of generation fidelity on the target domains would provide stronger grounding for the claim. While downstream QA gains and keyframe relevance serve as indirect validation in the current manuscript, this is a valid gap. In the revised version we will add FID scores and CLIP similarities between the text-conditioned generations and real frames sampled from EgoSchema, NExT-QA, ActivityNet-QA, IntentQA, and CLEVRER to directly measure fidelity on the evaluation domains. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.1 and §5.1] §4.1 and §5.1: No ablation isolates the contribution of the discrepancy-based selection against uniform sampling or random selection at identical frame budgets; the reported efficiency gains therefore cannot be attributed unambiguously to the active-perception mechanism rather than simply to the choice of total frame count.

Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. To isolate the effect of discrepancy-based selection, the revised manuscript will include new ablations that compare VAP against both uniform sampling and random selection while holding the exact frame budget per question fixed to the values used in the main experiments. These results will be reported in §4.1 and §5.1 to demonstrate that the observed gains arise from the active-perception mechanism rather than frame count alone. revision: yes
Referee: [§5.2, Tables 2–4] §5.2, Tables 2–4: Performance numbers are presented without standard deviations across multiple runs, without statistical significance tests, and without details of the exact keyframe-selection algorithm (threshold, top-k rule, or stopping criterion). This prevents verification that the claimed SOTA margins are stable.

Authors: We agree that these details are necessary for reproducibility and for confirming the stability of the reported margins. In the revision we will (i) report standard deviations computed over multiple independent runs of both keyframe selection and VLM inference, (ii) add statistical significance tests (paired t-tests) for all SOTA comparisons in Tables 2–4, and (iii) provide a precise algorithmic description of the discrepancy threshold, top-k rule, and stopping criterion in §5.2 together with pseudocode in the appendix. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces VAP as a training-free inference-time method that applies active perception principles by using a separate lightweight text-conditioned video generation model (external and pretrained) to generate expectations for keyframe selection. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivations in the abstract or described method reduce the performance claims to inputs by construction. Claims of improved efficiency and SOTA zero-shot results are presented as empirical outcomes on independent datasets (EgoSchema, NExT-QA, etc.), not forced by self-definition or self-citation chains. The approach is self-contained against external benchmarks without load-bearing self-referential steps.

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domain assumption Active perception theory can be directly operationalized for keyframe selection in video QA via a generative prior.
The paper states it is inspired by active perception theory and treats keyframe selection as data acquisition.

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