arXiv:2604. 09552v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Engineering rulebooks and technical standards contain multimodal information like dense text, tables, and illustrations that are challenging for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems.
By Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah, Hoang Anh Nguyen, Anna C. Doris, Amir Mohammad Vahedi, Daniele Grandi, Faez Ahmed, Hongyi Xu
arXiv:2607. 08497v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent unified multimodal models show a single architecture can jointly perform vision/language understanding and image generation/editing.
By Feng Wang, Canmiao Fu, Zhipeng Huang, Chen Li, Jing Lyu, Ge Li
arXiv:2607. 24799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models tend to hallucinate when answering domain-specific ques tions from scientific documents without prior fine-tuning.
By Alexandru-Andrei Sauc\u{a}, Ana-Luiza Rusnac
arXiv:2607. 22643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (mRAG) aims to answer image-text queries with external knowledge, but most existing systems still retrieve directly from raw multimodal input over a flat evidence space.
By Tianyu Yang, Shir Simon, Zhenzhen Li, Minhao Cheng, Xiangliang Zhang
Current instruction-based image retrieval systems are powerful but limited to single-turn interactions, failing to capture the iterative nature of complex, real-world visual searches. To overcome this limitation, we introduce Contextual Composed Image Retrieval (CoCo-IR), a novel task that enables users to progressively refine search results through interactions.
arXiv:2606. 28344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with retrieved web text has become a dominant paradigm, yet the web is not natively textual: existing systems depend on complex parsing pipelines that linearize HTML and discard layout, visual structure, and formatting.
By Yichuan Wang, Zhifei Li, Zirui Wang, Paul Teiletche, Lesheng Jin, Matei Zaharia, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Sewon Min
arXiv:2607. 29002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online shoppers increasingly turn to AI shopping assistants, using images and multi-turn dialogue to express and refine product needs that are difficult to articulate in text alone.
By Zeying Hao, Hao Guo, Mengtao Xu, Yimin Hu, Yuheng Song, Zesheng Zhou, Jinsong Lan, Xiaoyong Zhu
arXiv:2607. 17499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evolution of e-commerce has fundamentally transformed how users search for products, shifting from simple text-based keyword queries to complex multimodal interactions that seamlessly combine product images, natural language descriptions, and mixed-intent instructions.
By Xiaohan Ye, Xu Chen, Zihan Gong, Jian Ding, Lianyu Du, Baicheng Chen, Yunmeng Shu, Jingqian Zhao, Zhixiang Zhao, Shuaiqi Jia, Chong Ma, Shuwen Xiao, Xiangheng Kong, Yuan Gao, Jun Song, Jinsong Lan, Xiaoyong Zhu, Bo Zheng
arXiv:2607. 18514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual diagrams, figures, and tables are central to scientific papers, and convey information beyond what is captured in text.
By Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Lucy Lu Wang, Joseph Chee Chang, Jonathan Bragg
arXiv:2608. 10720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omni-modal dialogue models can understand multimodal inputs and synthesize spoken replies, yet their responses remain visually disembodied.
By Haoyu Zhang, Zhipeng Li, Xiaoying Tang, Tianshu Yu, Yiwen Guo
arXiv:2606. 04240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval over visually-rich documents, pages that interleave text with figures, tables, and charts, is essential for multimodal retrieval-augmented generation, yet most retrievers still discard the visual channel.
By Jingbiao Mei
arXiv:2607. 10079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) are embedded overlays widely used on web systems to guide users through operations inside a page, helping them get started with unfamiliar interfaces quickly.
By Chengguang Gan, Hanjun Wei, Yunhao Liang, Zhixi Cai, Qinghao Zhang, Shiwen Ni