Agentic Very Long Video Understanding
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Multimodal and embodied agents
Abstract (arXiv)
The advent of always-on personal AI assistants, enabled by all-day wearable devices such as smart glasses, demands a new level of contextual understanding, one that goes beyond short, isolated events to encompass the continuous, longitudinal stream of egocentric video. Achieving this vision requires advances in long-horizon video understanding, where systems must interpret and recall visual and audio information spanning days or even weeks. Existing methods, including large language models and retrieval-augmented generation, are constrained by limited context windows and lack the ability to perform compositional, multi-hop reasoning over very long video streams. In this work, we address these challenges through EGAgent, an enhanced agentic framework centered on entity scene graphs, which represent people, places, objects, and their relationships over time. Our system equips a planning agent with tools for structured search and reasoning over these graphs, as well as hybrid visual and audio search capabilities, enabling detailed, cross-modal, and temporally coherent reasoning. Experiments on the EgoLifeQA and Video-MME (Long) datasets show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on EgoLifeQA (57.5%) and competitive performance on Video-MME (Long) (74.1%) for complex longitudinal video understanding tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/egagent.
Key facts. Cited by 19 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal and embodied agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 10 of its 55 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 Jan 2026.
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- 2025VideoExplorer: Think With Videos For Agentic Long-Video Understandingcited by 29
- 2025CLaMR: Contextualized Late-Interaction for Multimodal Content Retrievalcited by 9
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- 20263rd Place at CVPR 2026 CASTLE Challenge: Agentic Multi-View Long-Context Video Understanding via Hierarchical Knowledge Graph Retrievalcited by 1
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- 2026Watch, Remember, Reason: Human-View Video Understanding with MLLMs5 Jun 2026
- 2026SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series2 Jun 2026
- 20263rd Place at CVPR 2026 CASTLE Challenge: Agentic Multi-View Long-Context Video Understanding via Hierarchical Knowledge Graph Retrieval1 Jun 2026
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- 2026Semantic and Visual Evidence for Efficient Long-Video Reasoning: A Solution for the HD-EPIC VQA Challenge28 May 2026
- 2026ReTool-Video: Recursive Tool-Using Video Agents with Meta-Augmented Tool Grounding13 May 2026
- 2026Personal Visual Context Learning in Large Multimodal Models11 May 2026
- 2026Bridging Modalities, Spanning Time: Structured Memory for Ultra-Long Agentic Video Reasoning8 May 2026
- 2026TraceAV-Bench: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Trajectory Reasoning over Long Audio-Visual Videos8 May 2026
- 2026ARGOS: Who, Where, and When in Agentic Multi-Camera Person Search14 Apr 2026
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- 2026Towards Multimodal Lifelong Understanding: A Dataset and Agentic Baselinecited by 8
- 2026StreamArena: Toward Continuous, Interactive, and Long-Horizon Agentic Streaming Video Understandingcited by 3
- 20263rd Place at CVPR 2026 CASTLE Challenge: Agentic Multi-View Long-Context Video Understanding via Hierarchical Knowledge Graph Retrievalcited by 1
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- 2026ABot-AgentOS: A General Robotic Agent OS with Lifelong Multi-modal Memorycited by 0
- 2026Agentic Video Understanding: A Surveycited by 0
- 2026Agentic Video Understanding: A Survey21 Sep 2026
- 2026StreamArena: Toward Continuous, Interactive, and Long-Horizon Agentic Streaming Video Understanding6 Aug 2026
- 2026ABot-AgentOS: A General Robotic Agent OS with Lifelong Multi-modal Memory11 Jul 2026
- 20263rd Place at CVPR 2026 CASTLE Challenge: Agentic Multi-View Long-Context Video Understanding via Hierarchical Knowledge Graph Retrieval1 Jun 2026
- 2026ARGOS: Who, Where, and When in Agentic Multi-Camera Person Search14 Apr 2026
- 2026Towards Multimodal Lifelong Understanding: A Dataset and Agentic Baseline5 Mar 2026
- 2026Bridging Modalities, Spanning Time: Structured Memory for Ultra-Long Agentic Video Reasoningcited by 3
- 2026Watch, Remember, Reason: Human-View Video Understanding with MLLMscited by 3
- 2026ReTool-Video: Recursive Tool-Using Video Agents with Meta-Augmented Tool Groundingcited by 1
- 2026SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Seriescited by 1
- 2026Semantic and Visual Evidence for Efficient Long-Video Reasoning: A Solution for the HD-EPIC VQA Challengecited by 0
- 2026VideoLoop: Looped Working Memory Against Semantic Thrashing in Long-Form Video Agentscited by 0
- 2026VideoLoop: Looped Working Memory Against Semantic Thrashing in Long-Form Video Agents29 Sep 2026
- 2026Watch, Remember, Reason: Human-View Video Understanding with MLLMs5 Jun 2026
- 2026SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series2 Jun 2026
- 2026Semantic and Visual Evidence for Efficient Long-Video Reasoning: A Solution for the HD-EPIC VQA Challenge28 May 2026
- 2026ReTool-Video: Recursive Tool-Using Video Agents with Meta-Augmented Tool Grounding13 May 2026
- 2026Bridging Modalities, Spanning Time: Structured Memory for Ultra-Long Agentic Video Reasoning8 May 2026
- 2026TraceAV-Bench: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Trajectory Reasoning over Long Audio-Visual Videoscited by 1
- 2026Budget-Constrained Embodied Perception: Four Resource Walls and a Pre-Registered Evaluation of Access-Structured Perception on Open Models at less than 31Bcited by 0
- 2026Beyond the Timeline: Augmenting Long-Video Memory with Grounded Entity Biographiescited by 0
- 2026MemLife: Curating and Reasoning over Long-Term Egocentric Video Memoriescited by 0
- 2026MemLife: Curating and Reasoning over Long-Term Egocentric Video Memories30 Sep 2026
- 2026Beyond the Timeline: Augmenting Long-Video Memory with Grounded Entity Biographies29 Sep 2026
- 2026Budget-Constrained Embodied Perception: Four Resource Walls and a Pre-Registered Evaluation of Access-Structured Perception on Open Models at less than 31B24 Aug 2026
- 2026TraceAV-Bench: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Trajectory Reasoning over Long Audio-Visual Videos8 May 2026
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