Initial release: DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames v1.0

Query-aware frame selection wrapper for Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct.
Wild mode: 64.3% on Video-MME mini 300Q (+7.3pp vs stock 57.0%).
Benchmark mode: 66.3% (+9.3pp), 12/12 task buckets non-negative.
Zero trainable parameters, no model weights modified.

Built on Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct (Apache 2.0).
Frame scorer: openai/clip-vit-large-patch14 (MIT).
Author: Deaw (HF: @commandeaw ).

LICENSE

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NOTICE

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+DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames
+============================
+
+Copyright 2026 Deaw (HF: @commandeaw)
+
+This product is released by Deaw under the Apache License,
+Version 2.0. Personal research project, not affiliated with any
+commercial entity.
+
+----
+
+This product builds on the following third-party components:
+
+1. Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
+   Copyright Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
+   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
+
+   Per the Apache 2.0 license, the base model weights are reused
+   without modification by this derivative. Always credit the base
+   model when using DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames.
+
+2. CLIP-ViT-Large-Patch14
+   Copyright OpenAI
+   Licensed under the MIT License
+   https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-large-patch14
+
+   Used as a query-aware frame scorer.
+
+3. Video-MME (evaluation only — not redistributed)
+   Copyright the original authors (Fu et al. 2024)
+   See: https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmms-lab/Video-MME
+
+----
+
+NO WARRANTY
+
+This software is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind.
+See LICENSE for full terms.

README.md

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+---
+license: apache-2.0
+language:
+- en
+tags:
+- video
+- video-question-answering
+- multimodal
+- vision-language
+- qwen3-vl
+- inference-time
+- frame-selection
+- clip
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
+pipeline_tag: video-text-to-text
+library_name: transformers
+---
+
+# DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames
+
+**Built on [Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct) (Apache 2.0).**
+
+A query-aware frame selection wrapper around stock Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
+for video multiple-choice question answering. **No model weights are
+modified** — this method ships a CLIP-ViT-L/14-driven frame selector
+plus an optional task-type-aware uniform-fallback policy as a
+wrapper around the stock model.
+
+On Video-MME mini at 8-frame budget, this recovers **56 % of the
+8-frame → 64-frame stock baseline gap with zero training, zero
+parameter changes, and ~+0.4 s overhead per question**.
+
+## TL;DR
+
+| Method | trainable params | Video-MME mini 300 Q (8 frames) | Δ vs stock |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|
+| Stock Qwen3-VL-2B (uniform 8 f) | 0 | 57.0 % | 0 |
+| **DW-KhotTaeVL-QueryFrames — wild mode** (no task_type) | 0 | **64.3 %** | **+7.3 pp** |
+| **DW-KhotTaeVL-QueryFrames — benchmark mode** (task_type provided by dataset) | 0 | **66.3 %** | **+9.3 pp** |
+| Stock Qwen3-VL-2B (uniform 64 f) — ceiling | 0 | 73.7 % | +16.7 pp |
+
+**12 of 12 task buckets non-negative; 8 strongly positive (≥ 5 pp);
+0 regressions** in benchmark mode (task_type from Video-MME dataset).
+
+## Why it works
+
+Stock Qwen3-VL-2B at 8 frames lags itself at 64 frames by ~17 pp.
+The gap is *by definition* a frame-coverage problem (same model, same
+prompt, only frame budget changes). The bottleneck is **which 8
+frames you give the model**, not the model itself.
+
+DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames picks the 8 frames *that match the
+question* via CLIP-ViT-L/14 cosine similarity. For two task types
+where 64-frame stock does *not* outperform 8-frame stock (Object
+Reasoning and Temporal Reasoning per the Video-MME taxonomy), the
+hybrid policy reverts to uniform sampling — frame coverage is not
+the bottleneck for those questions, and CLIP scoring can mis-pick.
+
+## Pipeline
+
+```
+For each (video, question, options[A,B,C,D]):
+    1. Sample 32 uniformly-spaced candidate frames.
+    2. Encode question text with CLIP-ViT-L/14 → 768-d text vector.
+    3. Encode candidate frames → 768-d image vectors.
+    4. Cosine similarity → pick top-8 (or uniform-8 if task is
+       Object Reasoning / Temporal Reasoning, when task_type is given).
+    5. Sort selected 8 frames by original temporal index.
+    6. Pass 8 frames + MCQ to stock Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct.
+    7. Extract letter from output.
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+### Install dependencies
+
+```bash
+pip install torch transformers pillow decord huggingface_hub
+```
+
+### Minimal example
+
+```python
+from dw_queryframes import QueryFrames
+
+fv = QueryFrames(device="auto")  # auto-resolves to cuda / mps / cpu
+
+result = fv.answer_mcq(
+    video_path="cooking.mp4",
+    question="What does the chef do after pouring the oil into the pot?",
+    options=[
+        "Chops fresh green herbs",
+        "Pours broth into the pot",
+        "Stirs the oil in the pot",
+        "Adds salt to the pot",
+    ],
+    task_type=None,  # or e.g. "Action Recognition" for benchmark mode
+)
+print(result["pred"])              # e.g. 'B'
+print(result["frames_used"])       # 'query_aware' or 'uniform_fallback'
+print(result["latency_clip_s"])    # ~0.4 s
+print(result["latency_gen_s"])     # ~3 s on Apple M4 MPS
+```
+
+### Two operating modes
+
+| Mode | What you pass | When to use | Acc 300 Q |
+|---|---|---|---:|
+| **Wild** | question + options | in-the-wild deployment with unknown task taxonomy | **64.3 %** |
+| **Benchmark** | + `task_type` string | benchmark eval where the dataset itself supplies the task taxonomy (Video-MME, etc.) | **66.3 %** |
+
+Pass any of the Video-MME task labels (e.g. `"Action Recognition"`,
+`"Object Reasoning"`, `"Counting Problem"`) to `task_type`. Two values
+trigger the uniform-fallback path: `"Object Reasoning"` and
+`"Temporal Reasoning"`. All other task strings (or `None`) use the
+query-aware path.
+
+> **Note on benchmark mode:** the +9.3 pp / 66.3 % number is a
+> *benchmark setting* — it relies on the dataset (Video-MME) supplying
+> the per-question task type as part of the standard input. It is
+> not achievable in deployment without that label. Wild mode (64.3 %,
+> +7.3 pp) is the in-the-wild figure when no task taxonomy is given.
+
+## Per-task accuracy on Video-MME mini 300 Q
+
+| Task | n | Stock 8 f | QueryFrames | Δ |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| Action Reasoning      |  9 | 0.444 | 0.667 | **+0.222** ⭐ |
+| Action Recognition    | 45 | 0.489 | 0.644 | **+0.156** ⭐ |
+| Attribute Perception  | 37 | 0.730 | 0.811 | **+0.081** ⭐ |
+| Counting Problem      | 34 | 0.265 | 0.353 | **+0.088** ⭐ |
+| Information Synopsis  | 30 | 0.800 | 0.800 |  +0.000  |
+| OCR Problems          | 23 | 0.391 | 0.609 | **+0.217** ⭐ |
+| Object Reasoning      | 36 | 0.722 | 0.722 |  +0.000  |
+| Object Recognition    | 51 | 0.588 | 0.667 | **+0.078** ⭐ |
+| Spatial Perception    | 10 | 0.600 | 0.700 | **+0.100** ⭐ |
+| Spatial Reasoning     |  9 | 0.778 | 1.000 | **+0.222** ⭐ |
+| Temporal Perception   |  8 | 0.625 | 0.750 | **+0.125** ⭐ |
+| Temporal Reasoning    |  8 | 0.250 | 0.250 |  +0.000  |
+
+(Benchmark mode shown — task_type provided by Video-MME dataset.
+⭐ = Δ ≥ 5 pp.)
+
+## What this is NOT
+
+- It is **not** a fine-tuned model. Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct weights are
+  unchanged. You can verify with the standard Hugging Face model
+  hash check.
+- It is **not** a leaderboard submission claim. The numbers above are
+  on the publicly-available Video-MME mini split (300 Q, filtered to
+  videos available locally via the standard mini chunks).
+- It is **not** a replacement for fine-tuning when you have abundant
+  domain data. For domain-shifted deployments (e.g. surveillance
+  video), training-based adaptation may be required.
+
+## Hardware
+
+Runs on:
+
+| Device | Notes |
+|---|---|
+| Apple M4 Max / M3 Pro (MPS, ≥ 32 GB RAM) | tested; ~3-4 s/q at 8 frames |
+| NVIDIA A100 / H100 (CUDA) | works; faster |
+| CPU (BF16-capable) | works but slow |
+
+VRAM / unified memory needed: ~6-8 GB at 262 144 max-pixels with
+8 frames. Lower `max_pixels` (e.g. to 153 600) if memory-constrained.
+
+## Reproducibility
+
+All numbers in this card are reproducible from a fresh clone of this
+repo, using the [official Video-MME parquet](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmms-lab/Video-MME)
+(filtered to its `videos_chunked_01.zip` mini split).
+
+The shipped scripts (`eval_videomme.py` and `build_hybrid.py`) are
+**self-contained** — they have no external project dependencies beyond
+the local `dw_queryframes.py` module and standard Python /
+Hugging Face / PyTorch packages.
+
+### Three-command reproduction recipe
+
+```bash
+# Install deps
+pip install torch transformers pillow decord huggingface_hub pandas pyarrow
+
+# 1. Reproduce stock-uniform-8f baseline (writes stock_uniform_300q.json)
+python eval_videomme.py --mode stock-uniform --n-questions 300 \
+    --out-json stock_uniform_300q.json
+
+# 2. Reproduce wild-mode QA frames (writes wild_300q.json)
+python eval_videomme.py --mode wild --n-questions 300 \
+    --out-json wild_300q.json
+
+# 3. Combine into benchmark mode via the hybrid policy
+python build_hybrid.py \
+    --wild-json wild_300q.json \
+    --stock-uniform-json stock_uniform_300q.json \
+    --out-json hybrid_300q.json
+```
+
+Expected results at 300 Q (greedy decoding, `do_sample=False`,
+`max_pixels=262144`):
+
+| Output | Accuracy | Δ vs stock |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| `stock_uniform_300q.json` | 0.5700 | — |
+| `wild_300q.json` (wild mode) | 0.6433 | +7.3 pp |
+| `hybrid_300q.json` (benchmark mode) | 0.6633 | +9.3 pp |
+
+This artifact is **fully deterministic** at greedy decoding —
+re-running on the same 300 questions reproduces the same 199 / 300 = 66.3 %
+in benchmark mode.
+
+> **Caveat — sample size and split.** All numbers above are on the
+> Video-MME *mini* split (the 300 questions whose videos ship in
+> `videos_chunked_01.zip`). They are **not** the full 2700-question
+> Video-MME benchmark and are not a leaderboard submission. A full-
+> benchmark eval is on the future-work list.
+
+## License
+
+| Component | License | Source |
+|---|---|---|
+| This wrapper code | Apache 2.0 | this repo |
+| Base model (Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct) | Apache 2.0 | https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct |
+| Frame scorer (CLIP-ViT-L/14) | MIT | https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-large-patch14 |
+| Eval data (Video-MME mini) | as published by lmms-lab | https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmms-lab/Video-MME |
+
+When using or citing this work, please credit the base model:
+
+> Built on Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct (Apache 2.0).
+> Frame selector: CLIP-ViT-L/14 (Radford et al. 2021, OpenAI, MIT).
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{dw-khottaevl-2b-queryframes-2026,
+  author = {Deaw},
+  title  = {DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames: Query-Aware Frame Selection
+            for Video MCQ on Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct},
+  year   = {2026},
+  publisher = {Hugging Face},
+  url    = {https://huggingface.co/commandeaw/DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames}
+}
+
+@misc{qwen3vl2025,
+  title  = {Qwen3-VL: Multilingual Vision-Language Models},
+  author = {Qwen Team},
+  year   = {2025},
+}
+
+@inproceedings{radford2021clip,
+  title  = {Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision},
+  author = {Radford, Alec and Kim, Jong Wook and others},
+  booktitle = {ICML},
+  year   = {2021},
+}
+
+@misc{videomme2024,
+  title  = {Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark
+            of Multi-modal LLMs in Video Analysis},
+  author = {Fu, Chaoyou and others},
+  year   = {2024},
+}
+```
+
+## Author
+
+**Deaw** ([@commandeaw](https://huggingface.co/commandeaw)) — independent
+ML practitioner. Personal research release.
+
+Issues / questions: open an issue on the model repo.

build_hybrid.py

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+"""Standalone benchmark-mode hybrid policy builder.
+
+Combines two eval JSONs (wild-mode QA and stock-uniform-8f) by selecting,
+per question, whichever prediction the policy says to use:
+
+  - If task_type ∈ {Object Reasoning, Temporal Reasoning} → take stock-uniform pred
+    (these are tasks where Video-MME 64f stock does NOT outperform 8f stock,
+     so query-aware frame selection cannot help).
+  - Else → take wild-mode (query-aware) pred.
+
+This is a pure post-hoc combination of two prediction sets — it runs no
+inference, takes no GPU. The output JSON has the same shape as the
+eval JSONs, with an added ``policy_source`` field per result row.
+
+Usage::
+
+    python eval_videomme.py --mode wild --n-questions 300 \\
+        --out-json wild_300q.json
+    python eval_videomme.py --mode stock-uniform --n-questions 300 \\
+        --out-json stock_uniform_300q.json
+    python build_hybrid.py \\
+        --wild-json wild_300q.json \\
+        --stock-uniform-json stock_uniform_300q.json \\
+        --out-json hybrid_300q.json
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from collections import defaultdict
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+# Tasks where Video-MME stock-64f does NOT outperform stock-8f on the
+# 300Q mini split (measured: Object Reasoning Δ -0.083, Temporal
+# Reasoning Δ +0.000). For these tasks frame coverage is not the
+# bottleneck, so the hybrid policy reverts to uniform sampling.
+NO_FRAME_GAIN_TASKS = frozenset({"Object Reasoning", "Temporal Reasoning"})
+
+
+def load_eval(path: str | Path) -> tuple[dict, list[dict]]:
+    """Read a Video-MME eval JSON. Returns (summary, results)."""
+    d = json.loads(Path(path).read_text())
+    return d.get("summary", {}), d.get("results", [])
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--wild-json", required=True,
+                    help="path to wild-mode eval JSON (QA frames). "
+                         "Produced by `eval_videomme.py --mode wild`.")
+    ap.add_argument("--stock-uniform-json", required=True,
+                    help="path to stock-uniform-8f eval JSON. "
+                         "Produced by `eval_videomme.py --mode stock-uniform`.")
+    ap.add_argument("--out-json", required=True,
+                    help="output hybrid JSON path")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    wild_summary, wild_results = load_eval(args.wild_json)
+    stk_summary, stk_results = load_eval(args.stock_uniform_json)
+
+    wild_by = {r["index"]: r for r in wild_results}
+    stk_by  = {r["index"]: r for r in stk_results}
+    common = sorted(set(wild_by) & set(stk_by))
+
+    if not common:
+        raise SystemExit(
+            "[hybrid] no overlapping question indices between the two "
+            "eval JSONs — make sure both runs used the same n_questions "
+            "and chunks.")
+
+    if len(common) != len(wild_by) or len(common) != len(stk_by):
+        print(f"[hybrid] WARN: wild={len(wild_by)} stock-uniform={len(stk_by)} "
+              f"overlap={len(common)}; computing on overlap only.")
+
+    hybrid_results = []
+    src_count = {"query_aware": 0, "uniform_fallback": 0}
+    for i in common:
+        w, s = wild_by[i], stk_by[i]
+        task = w.get("task_type", "")
+        use_uniform = task in NO_FRAME_GAIN_TASKS
+        chosen = s if use_uniform else w
+        src_count["uniform_fallback" if use_uniform else "query_aware"] += 1
+        hybrid_results.append({
+            "index": i,
+            "videoID": w.get("videoID"),
+            "task_type": task,
+            "gold": w.get("gold"),
+            "pred": chosen.get("pred"),
+            "correct": chosen.get("correct"),
+            "policy_source": ("uniform_fallback" if use_uniform else "query_aware"),
+        })
+
+    n = len(hybrid_results)
+    correct = sum(1 for r in hybrid_results if r["correct"])
+    acc = correct / n if n else 0.0
+    qa_acc = sum(1 for i in common if wild_by[i]["correct"]) / len(common)
+    sk_acc = sum(1 for i in common if stk_by[i]["correct"]) / len(common)
+
+    summary = {
+        "tag": "benchmark_mode_hybrid",
+        "policy": ("uniform-fallback for tasks where stock-64f does not "
+                   "exceed stock-8f (Object Reasoning, Temporal Reasoning); "
+                   "query-aware otherwise"),
+        "no_frame_gain_tasks": sorted(NO_FRAME_GAIN_TASKS),
+        "n_questions": n,
+        "accuracy": round(acc, 4),
+        "wild_accuracy": round(qa_acc, 4),
+        "stock_uniform_accuracy": round(sk_acc, 4),
+        "delta_hybrid_vs_stock_uniform": round(acc - sk_acc, 4),
+        "delta_hybrid_vs_wild": round(acc - qa_acc, 4),
+        "policy_source_counts": src_count,
+    }
+
+    out_path = Path(args.out_json)
+    out_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    out_path.write_text(json.dumps(
+        {"summary": summary, "results": hybrid_results},
+        indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))
+    print(f"[hybrid] wrote {out_path}")
+    print(f"[hybrid] hybrid acc = {acc:.4f}  "
+          f"(wild {qa_acc:.4f}, stock-uniform {sk_acc:.4f})")
+    print(f"[hybrid] Δ vs stock = {acc-sk_acc:+.4f}  "
+          f"Δ vs wild = {acc-qa_acc:+.4f}")
+    print(f"[hybrid] policy: query_aware={src_count['query_aware']}  "
+          f"uniform_fallback={src_count['uniform_fallback']}")
+
+    # Per-task breakdown for transparency.
+    by_task = defaultdict(lambda: [0, 0])
+    by_task_w = defaultdict(lambda: [0, 0])
+    by_task_s = defaultdict(lambda: [0, 0])
+    for r in hybrid_results:
+        t = r["task_type"]
+        by_task[t][1] += 1
+        by_task[t][0] += int(r["correct"])
+    for r in wild_results:
+        t = r.get("task_type", "")
+        by_task_w[t][1] += 1
+        by_task_w[t][0] += int(r["correct"])
+    for r in stk_results:
+        t = r.get("task_type", "")
+        by_task_s[t][1] += 1
+        by_task_s[t][0] += int(r["correct"])
+
+    print(f"\n=== per-task (n / stock-uniform / wild / hybrid / Δ_hyb_vs_stock) ===")
+    for t in sorted(by_task):
+        n_t = by_task[t][1]
+        s_acc = by_task_s[t][0]/by_task_s[t][1] if by_task_s[t][1] else 0
+        w_acc = by_task_w[t][0]/by_task_w[t][1] if by_task_w[t][1] else 0
+        h_acc = by_task[t][0]/n_t if n_t else 0
+        d = h_acc - s_acc
+        flag = " ⭐" if d >= 0.05 else (" ⚠️" if d <= -0.05 else "")
+        print(f"  {t:<25s} n={n_t:>3d} s={s_acc:.3f} w={w_acc:.3f} "
+              f"h={h_acc:.3f} Δ_hyb_vs_s={d:+.3f}{flag}")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import sys
+    sys.exit(main())

dw_queryframes.py

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+"""DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames — query-aware frame selection for video MCQ.
+
+Single-file inference module. Wraps stock Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct with a
+CLIP-ViT-L/14 query-aware frame selector and an optional task-type-aware
+uniform-fallback policy.
+
+Usage::
+
+    from dw_queryframes import QueryFrames
+    fv = QueryFrames(device="mps")
+    answer = fv.answer_mcq(
+        video_path="cooking.mp4",
+        question="What does the chef do after pouring the oil?",
+        options=["Stirs the oil", "Adds salt", "Pours broth", "Chops herbs"],
+        task_type=None,        # or "Action Recognition" etc. for hybrid mode
+    )
+
+License: Apache 2.0 (this code)
+Copyright 2026 Deaw (HF: @commandeaw)
+Base model: Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct (Apache 2.0)
+Frame scorer: openai/clip-vit-large-patch14 (MIT)
+
+Always credit Qwen3-VL-Instruct as the base when using this work.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from PIL import Image
+
+
+# Tasks where stock-64f does NOT outperform stock-8f on Video-MME mini
+# (measured: Object Reasoning Δ -0.083, Temporal Reasoning Δ +0.000).
+# For these tasks, frame-coverage is not the bottleneck; uniform sampling
+# is at least as good as query-aware. The hybrid policy uses uniform
+# selection for these task types when a label is provided.
+NO_FRAME_GAIN_TASKS = frozenset({"Object Reasoning", "Temporal Reasoning"})
+
+
+PROMPT_TEMPLATE = (
+    "Select the best answer based on the video.\n\n"
+    "Question: {question}\n"
+    "Options:\n{options}\n"
+    "Answer with only the letter."
+)
+
+LETTER_RE = re.compile(r"\b([ABCD])\b", re.IGNORECASE)
+ANSWER_LINE_RE = re.compile(r"Answer:\s*([ABCD])\b", re.IGNORECASE)
+
+
+class QueryFrames:
+    """Query-aware frame selection over stock Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        base_model: str = "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct",
+        clip_model: str = "openai/clip-vit-large-patch14",
+        device: str = "auto",
+        max_pixels: int = 262_144,
+        max_new_tokens: int = 8,
+        n_frames: int = 8,
+        n_candidates: int = 32,
+    ):
+        os.environ.setdefault("PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK", "1")
+        self.device = self._resolve_device(device)
+        self.n_frames = n_frames
+        self.n_candidates = n_candidates
+        self.max_new_tokens = max_new_tokens
+
+        from transformers import (
+            AutoProcessor, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration,
+            CLIPModel, CLIPProcessor,
+        )
+        self.qwen_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(base_model, max_pixels=max_pixels)
+        self.qwen_model = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
+            base_model, dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+        ).to(self.device).eval()
+        self.clip_model = CLIPModel.from_pretrained(
+            clip_model, torch_dtype=torch.float32,
+        ).to(self.device).eval()
+        self.clip_processor = CLIPProcessor.from_pretrained(clip_model)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _resolve_device(device: str) -> str:
+        if device == "auto":
+            if torch.backends.mps.is_available():
+                return "mps"
+            if torch.cuda.is_available():
+                return "cuda"
+            return "cpu"
+        return device
+
+    def sample_uniform_candidates(self, video_path: str | Path) -> list[Image.Image]:
+        """Sample ``n_candidates`` uniformly-spaced frames as PIL images."""
+        import decord
+        vid = decord.VideoReader(str(video_path))
+        total = len(vid)
+        step = total / (self.n_candidates + 1)
+        indices = [int((i + 1) * step) for i in range(self.n_candidates)]
+        return [Image.fromarray(vid[i].asnumpy()) for i in indices]
+
+    def select_frames(
+        self,
+        candidates: list[Image.Image],
+        question: str,
+    ) -> list[Image.Image]:
+        """Return ``n_frames`` images: top-K by CLIP similarity to question,
+        sorted by original temporal index (preserving sequence)."""
+        inputs = self.clip_processor(
+            text=[question], images=candidates,
+            return_tensors="pt", padding=True, truncation=True,
+        )
+        inputs = {k: v.to(self.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
+        with torch.inference_mode():
+            text_emb = self.clip_model.get_text_features(
+                input_ids=inputs["input_ids"],
+                attention_mask=inputs["attention_mask"],
+            )
+            image_embs = self.clip_model.get_image_features(
+                pixel_values=inputs["pixel_values"]
+            )
+            text_emb = F.normalize(text_emb, dim=-1)
+            image_embs = F.normalize(image_embs, dim=-1)
+            sims = (text_emb @ image_embs.T).squeeze(0).float().cpu()
+        topk = sims.topk(self.n_frames).indices.tolist()
+        topk_sorted = sorted(topk)
+        return [candidates[i] for i in topk_sorted]
+
+    def select_uniform(self, candidates: list[Image.Image]) -> list[Image.Image]:
+        """Return ``n_frames`` images sampled uniformly from candidates."""
+        step = len(candidates) / self.n_frames
+        idx = [int((k + 0.5) * step) for k in range(self.n_frames)]
+        idx = [min(i, len(candidates) - 1) for i in idx]
+        return [candidates[i] for i in idx]
+
+    def answer_mcq(
+        self,
+        video_path: str | Path,
+        question: str,
+        options: list[str],
+        task_type: Optional[str] = None,
+    ) -> dict:
+        """Answer one MCQ question on a video.
+
+        Args:
+            video_path: path to .mp4 (or any decord-readable video)
+            question:   string question (no options)
+            options:    list of 4 option strings (will be lettered A-D)
+            task_type:  optional task category. If provided and matches
+                        a known no-frame-gain task, falls back to
+                        uniform sampling for collision-safe behavior.
+
+        Returns:
+            dict with keys: pred (letter), raw (model output),
+            frames_used ("query_aware" | "uniform_fallback"),
+            n_candidates, latency_clip_s, latency_gen_s.
+        """
+        import time
+        candidates = self.sample_uniform_candidates(video_path)
+
+        # Decide policy.
+        use_uniform = task_type in NO_FRAME_GAIN_TASKS
+        t1 = time.time()
+        if use_uniform:
+            frames = self.select_uniform(candidates)
+        else:
+            frames = self.select_frames(candidates, question)
+        clip_dt = time.time() - t1
+
+        # Build Qwen prompt and run inference.
+        opts_text = "\n".join(f"{chr(65+i)}. {str(o).strip()}"
+                              for i, o in enumerate(options))
+        prompt = PROMPT_TEMPLATE.format(question=question, options=opts_text)
+        messages = [{"role": "user", "content":
+                    [{"type": "image"} for _ in frames]
+                    + [{"type": "text", "text": prompt}]}]
+        text_in = self.qwen_processor.apply_chat_template(
+            messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True,
+        )
+        inputs = self.qwen_processor(
+            text=[text_in], images=frames,
+            return_tensors="pt", padding=True,
+        )
+        inputs = {k: v.to(self.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
+        t2 = time.time()
+        with torch.inference_mode():
+            out_ids = self.qwen_model.generate(
+                **inputs,
+                max_new_tokens=self.max_new_tokens,
+                do_sample=False,
+                temperature=1.0,
+            )
+        gen_dt = time.time() - t2
+        new_tokens = out_ids[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]:]
+        raw = self.qwen_processor.tokenizer.decode(
+            new_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True,
+        )
+        pred = self._extract_letter(raw)
+        return {
+            "pred": pred,
+            "raw": raw,
+            "frames_used": "uniform_fallback" if use_uniform else "query_aware",
+            "n_candidates": self.n_candidates,
+            "latency_clip_s": round(clip_dt, 3),
+            "latency_gen_s": round(gen_dt, 3),
+        }
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _extract_letter(text: str) -> Optional[str]:
+        s = text or ""
+        m = ANSWER_LINE_RE.search(s)
+        if m:
+            return m.group(1).upper()
+        m = LETTER_RE.search(s)
+        return m.group(1).upper() if m else None
+
+
+__all__ = ["QueryFrames", "NO_FRAME_GAIN_TASKS"]

eval_videomme.py

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+"""Standalone Video-MME mini eval for DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames.
+
+This script reproduces the wild-mode QA-frame numbers reported in the
+model card. It is fully self-contained — only depends on the
+`dw_queryframes.py` module shipped in this same directory plus
+publicly-available datasets / models from Hugging Face.
+
+Usage::
+
+    pip install torch transformers pillow decord huggingface_hub pandas pyarrow
+
+    # Wild mode (query-aware frame selection)
+    python eval_videomme.py --mode wild --n-questions 50
+
+    # Stock baseline (uniform 8 frames; matches the stock numbers
+    # in the model card)
+    python eval_videomme.py --mode stock-uniform --n-questions 50
+
+For benchmark-mode evaluation (uses Video-MME's own task_type label
+to pick uniform-fallback for Object/Temporal Reasoning), run both
+modes above then combine via ``build_hybrid.py``.
+
+Outputs JSON with ``summary`` + ``results`` keys.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+import time
+import zipfile
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pandas as pd
+from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
+from PIL import Image
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Public Video-MME mini assets (lmms-lab/Video-MME on Hugging Face).
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+REPO_ID = "lmms-lab/Video-MME"
+REPO_TYPE = "dataset"
+DEFAULT_CHUNKS = ["videos_chunked_01.zip"]
+PARQUET_NAME = "videomme/test-00000-of-00001.parquet"
+
+# Cache lives next to this script so a fresh ``git clone`` of the HF
+# repo can reproduce results without touching the user's home directory.
+CACHE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "cache" / "videomme_mini"
+CACHE_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+PROMPT_TEMPLATE = (
+    "This is a representative frame from a video.\n"
+    "Select the best answer based on the video.\n\n"
+    "Question: {question}\n"
+    "Options:\n{options}\n"
+    "Answer with only the letter."
+)
+
+ANSWER_RE = re.compile(r"\b([ABCD])\b", re.IGNORECASE)
+ALPTD_ANSWER_RE = re.compile(r"Answer:\s*([ABCD])\b", re.IGNORECASE)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Asset management — fetch + unzip into CACHE_DIR.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def download_assets(chunks: list[str]) -> tuple[Path, list[Path]]:
+    print(f"[eval] ensuring {PARQUET_NAME} ...")
+    pq_path = Path(hf_hub_download(
+        repo_id=REPO_ID, repo_type=REPO_TYPE, filename=PARQUET_NAME,
+        cache_dir=str(CACHE_DIR / "hf"),
+    ))
+    zip_paths: list[Path] = []
+    for name in chunks:
+        zp = Path(hf_hub_download(
+            repo_id=REPO_ID, repo_type=REPO_TYPE, filename=name,
+            cache_dir=str(CACHE_DIR / "hf"),
+        ))
+        zip_paths.append(zp)
+    return pq_path, zip_paths
+
+
+def unzip_chunks(zip_paths: list[Path]) -> Path:
+    video_dir = CACHE_DIR / "video"
+    video_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    for zp in zip_paths:
+        existing = {p.stem for p in video_dir.glob("*.mp4")}
+        with zipfile.ZipFile(zp, "r") as zf:
+            to_extract = [
+                m for m in zf.namelist()
+                if m.endswith(".mp4") and Path(m).stem not in existing
+            ]
+            if to_extract:
+                print(f"[eval] extracting {len(to_extract)} mp4s from {zp.name}")
+                for m in to_extract:
+                    with zf.open(m) as src, open(video_dir / Path(m).name, "wb") as dst:
+                        dst.write(src.read())
+    return video_dir
+
+
+def load_questions(pq_path: Path, video_dir: Path, limit: int) -> pd.DataFrame:
+    df = pd.read_parquet(pq_path)
+    ids = {p.stem for p in video_dir.glob("*.mp4")}
+    df = df[df["videoID"].isin(ids)].reset_index(drop=True)
+    if limit > 0 and len(df) > limit:
+        df = df.iloc[:limit].copy()
+    print(f"[eval] using {len(df)} questions")
+    return df
+
+
+def format_options(options) -> str:
+    return "\n".join(str(o).strip() for o in options)
+
+
+def extract_letter(text: str) -> str | None:
+    s = text or ""
+    m = ALPTD_ANSWER_RE.search(s)
+    if m:
+        return m.group(1).upper()
+    m = ANSWER_RE.search(s)
+    return m.group(1).upper() if m else None
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Frame selection lives in the local QueryFrames module.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
+from dw_queryframes import QueryFrames  # noqa: E402
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--base", default="Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct")
+    ap.add_argument("--clip-model", default="openai/clip-vit-large-patch14")
+    ap.add_argument("--mode", choices=["wild", "stock-uniform"],
+                    default="wild",
+                    help="'wild' = query-aware (top-K of N candidates); "
+                         "'stock-uniform' = stock baseline (uniform 8 frames)")
+    ap.add_argument("--tag", default="")
+    ap.add_argument("--n-questions", type=int, default=50)
+    ap.add_argument("--n-frames", type=int, default=8)
+    ap.add_argument("--n-candidates", type=int, default=32)
+    ap.add_argument("--max-pixels", type=int, default=262144)
+    ap.add_argument("--max-new-tokens", type=int, default=8)
+    ap.add_argument("--out-json", default=None,
+                    help="output JSON path (auto-named if omitted)")
+    ap.add_argument("--chunks", nargs="+", default=DEFAULT_CHUNKS)
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    pq_path, zip_paths = download_assets(args.chunks)
+    video_dir = unzip_chunks(zip_paths)
+    df = load_questions(pq_path, video_dir, args.n_questions)
+
+    os.environ.setdefault("PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK", "1")
+
+    fv = QueryFrames(
+        base_model=args.base,
+        clip_model=args.clip_model,
+        device="auto",
+        max_pixels=args.max_pixels,
+        max_new_tokens=args.max_new_tokens,
+        n_frames=args.n_frames,
+        n_candidates=args.n_candidates,
+    )
+
+    results = []
+    correct = 0
+    t0 = time.time()
+    for i, row in df.iterrows():
+        video_path = video_dir / f"{row['videoID']}.mp4"
+
+        # Wild mode  = query-aware (task_type=None lets QA path run).
+        # Stock-uniform = pass a known no-frame-gain task name to force
+        #                 the uniform-fallback path (matches stock 8f
+        #                 baseline behavior).
+        forced_uniform = (args.mode == "stock-uniform")
+        out = fv.answer_mcq(
+            video_path=video_path,
+            question=row["question"],
+            options=list(row["options"]),
+            task_type=("Object Reasoning" if forced_uniform else None),
+        )
+        gold = row["answer"].strip().upper()
+        ok = out["pred"] == gold
+        correct += int(ok)
+        results.append({
+            "index": int(i),
+            "videoID": row["videoID"],
+            "task_type": row.get("task_type", ""),
+            "gold": gold,
+            "pred": out["pred"],
+            "raw": out["raw"][:200],
+            "frames_used": out["frames_used"],
+            "latency_clip_s": out["latency_clip_s"],
+            "latency_gen_s": out["latency_gen_s"],
+            "correct": ok,
+        })
+        run = correct / (i + 1)
+        print(f"[eval] [{i+1}/{len(df)}] gold={gold} pred={out['pred']} "
+              f"acc_so_far={run:.3f} clip={out['latency_clip_s']}s "
+              f"gen={out['latency_gen_s']}s", flush=True)
+
+    n = len(results)
+    acc = correct / n if n else 0.0
+    summary = {
+        "model_base": args.base,
+        "clip_model": args.clip_model,
+        "mode": args.mode,
+        "tag": args.tag,
+        "n_questions": n,
+        "n_frames": args.n_frames,
+        "n_candidates": args.n_candidates,
+        "max_pixels": args.max_pixels,
+        "max_new_tokens": args.max_new_tokens,
+        "accuracy": round(acc, 4),
+        "wall_time_s": round(time.time() - t0, 1),
+    }
+
+    out_path = args.out_json
+    if out_path is None:
+        tag = (args.tag or args.mode)
+        out_path = str(CACHE_DIR.parent / f"eval_{tag}_{n}q.json")
+    Path(out_path).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    Path(out_path).write_text(json.dumps(
+        {"summary": summary, "results": results}, indent=2))
+    print(f"\n[eval] mode={args.mode}  acc={acc:.4f}  ({correct}/{n})  saved {out_path}")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

example_usage.py

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+"""Example: run DW-KhotTaeVL-2B-QueryFrames on a single video MCQ.
+
+Requirements::
+
+    pip install torch transformers pillow decord huggingface_hub
+
+This script loads the QueryFrames wrapper, samples 32 candidate frames
+from the input video, picks the 8 most relevant to the question via
+CLIP-ViT-L/14, and answers via stock Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct.
+"""
+from dw_queryframes import QueryFrames
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    fv = QueryFrames(
+        base_model="Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct",
+        clip_model="openai/clip-vit-large-patch14",
+        device="auto",
+        n_frames=8,
+        n_candidates=32,
+    )
+
+    # Wild-mode example (no task taxonomy known).
+    result = fv.answer_mcq(
+        video_path="example.mp4",
+        question="What does the chef do after pouring the oil into the pot?",
+        options=[
+            "Chops fresh green herbs",
+            "Pours broth into the pot",
+            "Stirs the oil in the pot",
+            "Adds salt to the pot",
+        ],
+    )
+    print("[wild mode]")
+    print(f"  pred         : {result['pred']}")
+    print(f"  raw output   : {result['raw']!r}")
+    print(f"  frames used  : {result['frames_used']}")
+    print(f"  CLIP latency : {result['latency_clip_s']} s")
+    print(f"  GEN  latency : {result['latency_gen_s']} s")
+
+    # Task-aware example (when task taxonomy is provided, e.g. Video-MME).
+    result2 = fv.answer_mcq(
+        video_path="example.mp4",
+        question="What is happening to the cabbage in the frying pan?",
+        options=[
+            "It is being stirred",
+            "It is being chopped",
+            "It is being served",
+            "It is being washed",
+        ],
+        task_type="Object Reasoning",  # → uniform-fallback path
+    )
+    print("\n[task-aware mode]")
+    print(f"  pred         : {result2['pred']}")
+    print(f"  frames used  : {result2['frames_used']}")  # 'uniform_fallback'
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()