---
base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
library_name: transformers
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: video-text-to-text
tags:
- video-retrieval
- temporal-grounding
- videosearch-r1
---

# VideoSearch-R1 Charades-STA Stage 2

This is the Stage 2 VideoSearch-R1 checkpoint trained for Charades-STA, presented in the paper [VideoSearch-R1: Iterative Video Retrieval and Reasoning via Soft Query Refinement](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.00446).

- **Project Page:** [https://mlvlab.github.io/VideoSearch-R1/](https://mlvlab.github.io/VideoSearch-R1/)
- **Repository:** [https://github.com/mlvlab/VideoSearch-R1](https://github.com/mlvlab/VideoSearch-R1)

## Usage

Use with the VideoSearch-R1 codebase:

```bash
bash scripts/data_construct/download_preextracted_data.bash charades
EVAL_GPUS=0 bash scripts/inference/inference.bash charades --checkpoint VideoSearchR1/charades-stage2
```