研究团队提出V-RAGBench基准与CARVE方法以改进长视频RAG
阅读原文· arxiv.org针对现有视频RAG基准中查询无需视频即可回答、且采用单一模态-粒度配置的局限,研究者提出V-RAGBench基准,包含(query, evidence chunk, answer)三元组,支持检索与生成的解耦评估;同时提出CARVE方法,通过并行运行多配置检索器并对每个chunk进行自适应重排序,为每个chunk选择最优配置,使生成阶段交织不同配置的证据块。在长视频场景下,CARVE在八个近期VideoRAG基线方法中取得最优结果。
Retrieval-augmented generation is moving beyond text into long, egocentric video, where systems must select query-relevant chunks across multiple modalities and temporal granularities. Yet progress in VideoRAG is limited by two gaps: existing benchmarks allow queries to be answered without the video, obscuring retrieval errors, and prior methods apply a single modality-granularity configuration per query, ignoring chunk-level variability. We address both by introducing V-RAGBench, a benchmark of langlequery, evidence chunk, answerrangle triplets that enables faithful, decoupled evaluation of retrieval and generation, and CARVE, a simple method that runs parallel retrievers across configurations and employs chunk-adaptive reranking to identify the winning configuration for each chunk. Each chunk then enters the generator under its winning configuration selected during retrieval, yielding an interleaved evidence form where the chunk-level decision propagates across both stages. CARVE outperforms eight recent VideoRAG baselines, with the chunks supplied to the generator interleaving multiple configurations rather than sharing a single one, a behavior unattainable by query-level methods.