Challenge: Existing methods for chain-of-thought reasoning fail to adapt to domain-specific skills over video content.
Approach: They propose a framework that automatically constructs and leverages skill-aware CoT supervisions for domain-adaptive video reasoning.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms strong baselines on three video understanding benchmarks.

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