The paper introduces <flowreader>, a method that casts evidence selection for long multimodal documents as a minimum‑cost flow problem over a multimodal content graph. It uses spectral decomposition to identify latent query‑relevant aspects and allocates a fixed evidence budget proportionally to their spectral energy, ensuring aspect coverage without a language‑model planning call. On the VisDoMBench benchmark with Qwen3‑VL‑32B, <flowreader> achieves the highest macro accuracy (68.9%) and outperforms prior systems by 2.7 points, while using fewer content nodes and reader tokens.
By Ambuj Mehrish, Sebastiano Vascon
The paper introduces GLANCE, a one‑pass block drafting method that enables lossless speculative decoding for vision‑language models. By using a block‑diffusion head that reads the fused vision‑language state, GLANCE eliminates the need for the drafter to process the image at every step, allowing it to fill an entire block in a single forward pass. Experiments show that GLANCE can decode up to 2.93× faster than autoregressive decoding while maintaining exact greedy decoding results across multiple tasks.
By Jungseob Lee, Seongtae Hong, Dongyub Jude Lee, Chanjun Park, Jaehyung Seo, Sugyeong Eo, Heuiseok Lim
arXiv:2606. 07235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long, multimodal documents force retrieval-augmented systems to assemble answers from evidence fragmented across text, tables, and slides broken across cells in a long table, spread over multiple slides, or split between a figure and its discussion.
By Ambuj Mehrish, Sebatiano Vascon
FOVEA introduces a cache‑friendly, on‑demand visual evidence adaptation for multimodal speculative decoding, enabling a lightweight draft model to dynamically retrieve a bounded subset of visual memory based on a cumulative‑mass rule. The retrieved visual readout is fused with the draft hidden state via a lightweight gated residual correction, avoiding the insertion of visual tokens into the autoregressive context. Experiments on various vision‑language backbones and benchmarks show that FOVEA improves draft acceptance and speeds up end‑to‑end decoding by up to 2.13× compared to traditional autoregressive decoding.
By Hengjie Zhu, Dayan Wu, Zihao Zhang, Xinze Liu, Jingxuan Yu, Peng Fu, Zheng Lin, Weiping Wang, Ding Wang
arXiv:2601. 00821v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A growing class of conversational-memory systems compresses dialogue history into structured artifacts (extracted facts, decisions, or events) on the premise that distilled structure retrieves better than raw text.
By Tao An
arXiv:2608. 19739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal LLMs can see a document, but they often can't read it reliably.
By Alin-Ionut Popa
PreviewDiff is a test‑time search method that uses multimodal critics to guide diffusion model sampling. By decoding partial previews at selected denoising checkpoints, scoring them with a multimodal judge, and branching over semantic prompt edits, it allows the generation process to be edited and rerouted before completion. The approach consistently outperforms budget‑matched Best‑of‑N sampling and scalar‑search baselines on image and video benchmarks, with early interventions and wider search yielding the biggest gains.
By Vighnesh Subramaniam, Boris Katz, Brian Cheung, Chun-Liang Li, Tomas Pfister, Yale Song
The paper investigates how new concepts can be integrated into unified multimodal models (UMMs) by separating generation and understanding objectives through a novel visual entity bound to a single task direction. Experiments show that the effectiveness of cross‑task usability depends on where the concept is injected into the shared computation, with a mid‑stack alignment objective achieving high concept acquisition with minimal loss to overall performance. The study highlights that unified weights alone are insufficient; the two directions must share a semantic format at the entry point for efficient concept integration.
By Zongyang Qiu, Yihan Wu, Kaixuan Fan, Bo Li, Hui Xiong
arXiv:2601. 00821v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A growing class of conversational-memory systems compresses dialogue history into structured artifacts -- extracted facts, decisions, or events -- on the premise that distilled structure retrieves better than raw text.
By Tao An
Multimodal LLMs can see a document, but they often can't read it reliably. Small text, tables, visual cues, and topological elements still trip them up under direct visual inference, even when the pag...
arXiv:2609.00756v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Mutual Reinforcement Effect (MRE) asks whether a fine, span-level and a coarse, document-level task help each other when one model handles both. We...
By Chengguang Gan, Yunhao Liang, Hanjun Wei, Qinghao Zhang, Shiwen Ni
arXiv:2503. 06211v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-pretrained language models (LMs) encode rich world knowledge, but adapting them to process and generate perceptual modalities such as audio and images while effectively leveraging that knowledge remains challenging.
By Santiago Cuervo, Adel Moumen, Yanis Labrak, Sameer Khurana, Antoine Laurent, Mickael Rouvier, Phil Woodland, Ricard Marxer