Video-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement of Video Understanding Agents via Harness Evolution

arXiv:2609.37950 · cs.AI, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/bingjunluo/Video-RSI

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 62× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 5× in this paper
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• CVF International Conference on Computer Vision — 2× in this paper
• Frozen model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Search — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic System — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• GRPO — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• VideoHarness-RSI: Recursive Harness Self-Improvement for Long-Video Understanding with Frozen Vision-Language Models
• Self-Harness: Harnesses That Improve Themselves

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