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arxivcs.CVcs.CL2026-07-01

Latent Visual Cache for Video Reasoning

Yongheng Zhang, Zhipeng Xu, Hao Wu, Yinghui Li, Di Yin, Xing Sun, Philip S. Yu

Video reasoning requires Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) to remain grounded in dense evidence, yet existing systems largely adopt "read-once, generate-many" paradigm, in which visual grounding weakens during generation. This phenomenon has been widely observed and is known as Visual Anchoring Decay. To fill this gap, we introduce Latent Video Cache (Latent-VC), a recurrent latent visual cache inserted into the decoder to preserve compact visual memories throughout reasoning. The cache is trained with supervised contrastive cache alignment and vision-grounded GRPO with a latent grounding reward, while maintaining strict train-inference alignment through native decoder hidden states. Built on Qwen3.5-9B, Latent-VC consistently outperforms strong CoT and SFT+GRPO baselines across six video benchmarks, with especially clear gains on grounding-intensive and long-video tasks. In addition, it also achieves higher accuracy with substantially shorter responses, suggesting that latent visual caching improves video reasoning by preserving visual evidence rather than relying on longer textual chains.

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