The authors built VidHarness around a proposer that writes candidate harnesses, runs them under a strictly enforced frame budget, examines execution feedback and revises the programs.
Evolved agent harnesses cut long-video analysis costs while improving accuracy
VidHarness automatically searches for video-agent programs that select informative frames under different computation budgets.
Chinese Tech
Susan Liang · Jianmin Wu · Daxiang Dong
Baidu, Inc.
Research Digest··2 min read
Thread:Agent Harness Optimization
Liang, Wu and Dong automate the design of agent harnesses, programs that control which video frames a frozen vision-language model observes and when it answers.
Why this paper
From Baidu, Inc. · Part of Agent Harness Optimization, now 90 papers
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VidHarness automatically evolves video agent harnesses, achieving state-of-the-art long video QA with fewer frames.
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