@inproceedings{xu-etal-2026-ridge, title = "{RIDGE}: Region-Informed Derivative-Guided Evidence Selection for Long Video Understanding", author = "Xu, Shanqing and Luo, Meng and Qian, Mengchen and Gao, Yuhui and Peng, Siyue and Zhong, Xiaohan and Zhang, Xiaojin and Wei, Zhongyu and Chen, Wei and Bai, Xiang", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1813/", pages = "38717--38734", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }