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RIDGE: Region-Informed Derivative-Guided Evidence Selection for Long Video Understanding

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 30, 2026 · UTC

Long videos contain far more visual content than Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can process under a fixed visual-token budget, making frame selection essential. Existing query-aware selectors usually estimate frame-query relevance and build a compact subset from high-scoring frames. Although their mechanisms differ, the similarity sequence is still often treated primarily as values to rank or sample from, rather than as an ordered signal whose shape reflects how query-relevant evidence emerges, peaks, and fades over time. This can obscure frames that explain, contextualize, or follow an

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