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AVA-Encoder: Towards Agent-Native Video Representation Learning

Chuyue Li, Jinpeng Yu, Haozhe Wang, Tian Xueyun, Zhijing Zhang, Bingnan Li, Shuqi Gu, Kan Ren, Jiaming Liu, Ruihua Hua

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Published 2026-08-12 · First seen 2026-08-13

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Creative agents still lack an effective way to learn from high-quality human films, limiting their ability to produce cinematic-grade videos. A key challenge is the absence of a structured video representation that is both faithful to film content and directly usable for agentic reasoning and manipulation. To address the challenge, we propose the Agentic Video Auto-Encoder (AVA-Encoder), a framework for learning agent-native video representations via agentic auto-encoding. AVA-Encoder transforms a video into a knowledge graph (KG) representation and then reconstructs it back into video. Its hierarchy and state nodes store structured text, while a linked asset layer holds generated images, audio, and video. Typed edges preserve the relations between these text descriptions and assets in a form that agents can easily understand, query, and edit. The video reconstruction differences drive a textual-gradient optimization framework, which expresses evaluation feedback as natural-language update directions for Data-Independent Encoding Policy Pseudo-Training in the outer loop and optional Data-Dependent KG Representation Refinement in the test-time inner loop. Extensive experiments show that AVA-Encoder improves by 20.7 percentage points over the strongest external baseline. In the controlled policy-only setting, its pseudo-trained shot-level Agentic Video Encoder policy also outperforms a carefully human-tuned policy while using 74.3% fewer system-prompt tokens. We release the complete AVA-Encoder framework, a reliable agentic video reconstruction benchmark, and the first dataset of high-quality film KG representations.

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@article{li2026ava,
  title = {AVA-Encoder: Towards Agent-Native Video Representation Learning},
  author = {Chuyue Li and Jinpeng Yu and Haozhe Wang and Tian Xueyun and Zhijing Zhang and Bingnan Li and Shuqi Gu and Kan Ren and Jiaming Liu and Ruihua Hua},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Creative agents still lack an effective way to learn from high-quality human films, limiting their ability to produce cinematic-grade videos. A key challenge is the absence of a structured video representation that is both faithful to film content and directly usable for agentic reasoning and manipulation. To address the challenge, we propose the Agentic Video Auto-Encoder (AVA-Encoder), a framework for learning agent-native video representations via agentic auto-encoding. AVA-Encoder transforms},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12313},
  keywords = {cs.CV, cs.CL, Agentic Video Auto-Encoder, AVA-Encoder, agent-native video representations, knowledge graph, agentic auto-encoding, textual-gradient optimization, Data-Independent Encoding Policy Pseudo-Training, Data-Dependent KG Representation Refinement, huggingface daily},
  eprint = {2608.12313},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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