@article{xcotexplainabletexttovideoretrievalviall, title = {X-CoT: Explainable Text-to-Video Retrieval via LLM-based Chain-of-Thought Reasoning}, author = {Prasanna Reddy Pulakurthi and Jiamian Wang and Majid Rabbani and Sohail Dianat and Raghuveer Rao and Zhiqiang Tao}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2509.21559}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21559}, }