VideoSearchR1/didemo-stage1

VideoSearch-R1 DiDeMo Stage 1

This is the Stage 1 VideoSearch-R1 checkpoint trained for DiDeMo, presented in VideoSearch-R1: Iterative Video Retrieval and Reasoning via Soft Query Refinement.

• Project Page: mlvlab.github.io/VideoSearch-R1
• Repository: github.com/mlvlab/VideoSearch-R1

Usage

Use with the VideoSearch-R1 codebase:

bash scripts/data_construct/download_preextracted_data.bash didemo
EVAL_GPUS=0 bash scripts/inference/inference.bash didemo --checkpoint VideoSearchR1/didemo-stage1

Citation

@inproceedings{lee2026videosearchr1,
  title     = {VideoSearch-R1: Iterative Video Retrieval and Reasoning via Soft Query Refinement},
  author    = {Lee, Seohyun and Choi, Seoung and Ko, Dohwan and Kim, Jongha and Kim, Hyunwoo J.},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  year      = {2026}
}