Think with Grounding: Curriculum Reinforced Reasoning with Video Grounding for Long Video Understanding.

@inproceedings{chen-2026-think, author = {Houlun Chen and Xin Wang and Guangyao Li and Yuwei Zhou and Yihan Chen and Jia Jia and Wenwu Zhu}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Think with Grounding: Curriculum Reinforced Reasoning with Video Grounding for Long Video Understanding}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {167--178}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809757}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809757} }