arXiv:2608. 14841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-document visual question answering (VQA) over documents of tens to hundreds of pages mixing text, tables, charts, and figures typically follows retrieve-then-read pipelines.
By Guanchen Wu, Jiayuan Ding, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Carl Yang
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
arXiv:2604.27724v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Medical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems typically operate on text chunks extracted from biomedical literature, discarding the rich vis...
By Xupeng Chen, Binbin Shi, Chenqian Le, Jiaqi Zhang, Kewen Wang, Ran Gong, Jinhan Zhang, Chihang Wang
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: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
arXiv:2606. 15906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-document multimodal question answering requires a system to locate sparse evidence in long PDFs and integrate clues from text, tables, images, charts, and complex layouts.
By Yilong Zuo, Xunkai Li, Jing Yuan, Qiangqiang Dai, Hongchao Qin, Ronghua Li
arXiv:2606. 29399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reviewing nuclear regulatory documents requires multi-hop reasoning across tens of thousands of pages, where judgments depend on evidence assembled across multiple chapters.
By Mingyu Jeon, Bokyeong Kim, Suwan Cho, Jae Young Suh, Yonggyun Yu
arXiv:2609.18154v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We describe our system for LitTraceQA (GroundLM @ EMNLP 2026): given a research question, retrieve the relevant papers from a pool of 27,487, cite th...
By Aaditya Chauhan
arXiv:2609.15982v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Skills extend an LLM agent beyond its parametric knowledge, and the gain they promise rests on picking the right one. Deployed harnesses route by pre...
By Ruishuo Chen, Xun Wang, Yu Chen, Zhuoran Li, Longbo Huang
The paper presents a system for the MedReason 2026 challenge that tackles both multiple‑choice and open‑ended medical visual question answering using offline, containerized inference. Key findings include that comparing answer semantics rather than labels boosts retrieval‑only accuracy from 20.0 % to 57.5 % on a 200‑case holdout, and that varying the number of in‑prompt retrieved examples has minimal impact on final accuracy (93.5 %–94.0 %). The final system achieves 94.0 % MCQ accuracy on the development set and 93.20 % on the official pre‑evaluation, far surpassing the off‑the‑shelf baseline.
"whyItMatters":"The results demonstrate that semantic‑aware retrieval and careful adapter tuning can dramatically improve medical VQA performance, offering a practical approach for high‑accuracy, offline inference in clinical settings."
By Tristan Kirscher (ICube, Institut Strauss), Niklas C. Koser (CAU), Soren Pirk (CAU)
The paper introduces Enrich‑Retrieve‑Rank, a scalable method for discovering capabilities in large agent ecosystems. It replaces in‑context routing with an offline enrichment step that converts sparse metadata into searchable profiles, followed by an online retrieve‑then‑rank pipeline that returns a ranked shortlist without invoking candidates. Experiments show that as the number of capabilities grows from 10 to 7,278, the new approach maintains higher top‑1 accuracy and reduces cost by 70× compared to full‑context baselines.
By Nazib Sorathiya, Daniel Zhang, Bardiya Akhbari
arXiv:2608. 06305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation over long documents is dominated by one design: chunk the text, embed the chunks, and surface the top-k nearest neighbours of the query.
By Sagar Tamang, Ayush Vyas, Tabarakul Hazarika