Cog-VADU: A Training-Free Cognitive Reasoning Framework for Video Anomaly Detection and Understanding

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arXiv:2610.01754v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to temporally localize abnormal events in videos. Most existing approaches rely on dataset-specific training and curated annotations, limiting generalization in open-set scenarios. Recent zero-shot methods based on Large Vision- Language Models (LVLMs) alleviate this dependency but often lack temporal continuity and structured reasoning. We propose Cog-VADU, a fully training-free framework that reformulates VAD