[MTDickens]

CausalVideoGroup website change

Change type

• Pre-meeting discussion
• Post-meeting note
• Project page
• Website, template, or tooling
• Other

Topic or project

• Date: 2026-10-12
• Title: Video Reasoning: one year of debate in 26 papers
• Leader: Yichang Jian (yichang)
• Public URL after merge: /discussions/2026-10-12-yichang-video-reasoning/

The talk was given on 2026-10-12 from an earlier draft; this entry carries the finished deck (presentation.html, Chinese) plus the English summary, idea map and references. Status stays before-meeting until meeting notes are recorded.

Pre-meeting checklist

• metadata.yaml, summary.html, idea map, and references.md exist.
• At least three key references explain importance, role, limitation, and a question. (8 analyzed, plus the full 26-paper list)
• At least five open questions are included. (6)
• Central claim and hidden assumption are explicit.
• Failure boundary and group-research connection are explicit.
• At least one concrete experiment and discussion seed are included.
• Large videos are externally hosted and previews are below 10 MiB. (every video in assets/ is under 10 MiB)
• Claims, citations, links, and public-release status were checked by the author.

Post-meeting checklist

• meeting-note.md records changed views and key insights.
• Critiques, failure cases, and research opportunities are included.
• Concrete next steps and owners are listed in action-items.md.
• Metadata status is updated to after-meeting or archived.

Verification

• python3 scripts/build_site.py
• python3 scripts/validate_site.py
• python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v (16 tests pass)
• Changed pages were previewed locally.

Reviewer notes

Please assess whether the change supports knowledge creation, not only information summarization.

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