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: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
Visual document retrieval has recently become increasingly important in applications such as enterprise search, scientific literature discovery, and retrieval-augmented generation. These applications depend on efficiently identifying query-relevant pages across large collections of visually rich documents.
arXiv:2608.20840v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal retrieval have improved the ability to retrieve information from visually rich documents such as PDFs and reports. Howe...
By Yongbin Choi, Yongwoo Song, Mujeen Sung
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: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. 07654v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-vector visual document retrievers achieve strong fine-grained matching by representing each page with multiple vectors from deep Vision-Language Models (VLMs), but this design makes deployment expensive in both storage and computational overhead.
By Haowen Xiang, Yibo Yan, Jiahao Huo, Yu Huang, Yi Cao, Mingdong Ou, Xuming Hu
arXiv:2608.17889v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Visually rich documents encode relevance through language, layout, structured visual elements, and corpus context, yet retrieval is typically evaluat...
By Lexiang Hu, Yanzhao Zhang, Mingxin Li, Dingkun Long, Yikang Li, Fuwei Zhang, Yisen Wang, Zhouchen Lin
arXiv:2608.22214v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In domain-specific multimodal long documents, images and text jointly convey complex knowledge that cannot be fully captured by plain text alone. Howev...
By Yikai Gao, Ding Xia, Xi Yang
arXiv:2509.08897v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: With the rapid advancement of multimodal retrieval and its application in LLMs and multimodal LLMs, increasingly complex retrieval tasks have...
By Davide Caffagni, Sara Sarto, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
arXiv:2608. 02112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embedding benchmarks measure standalone model quality, but they do not establish whether a low-cost retriever contributes complementary ranking information once lexical and transformer-based retrieval are already combined.
By Ant\'onio Pereira Barata