arXiv AI

Locating Failure in Multi-Page Visually Rich Document Understanding: An Empirical Attribution

arXiv:2608. 07943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-page visually-rich document understanding (MP-VRDU) requires managing evidence that is sparse, spread across pages, and often exceeds a model's context window.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 21

Doc-V*:Coarse-to-Fine Interactive Visual Reasoning for Multi-Page Document VQA

arXiv:2604. 13731v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-page Document Visual Question Answering requires reasoning over semantics, layouts, and visual elements in long, visually dense documents.

By Yuanlei Zheng, Pei Fu, Hang Li, Ziyang Wang, Yuyi Zhang, Wenyu Ruan, Xiaojin Zhang, Zhongyu Wei, Zhenbo Luo, Jian Luan, Wei Chen, Xiang Bai
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Doc-CoB: Enhancing Document Understanding with Visual Chain-of-Boxes Reasoning

Doc‑CoB introduces a Chain‑of‑Boxes framework that enhances document understanding by progressively focusing on query‑relevant layout regions while preserving global context. It selects key layout boxes and then applies visual prompting for deeper analysis, supported by two new reasoning tasks and an automatic pipeline that generates 249k training samples with intermediate visual supervision. Experiments across seven benchmarks and four popular models demonstrate significant performance gains, underscoring the method’s effectiveness and broad applicability.

By Ye Mo, Kai Ye, Xianwei Mao, Zirui Shao, Gang Huang, Bo Zhang, Hangdi Xing, Kehan Chen, Huan Zhou, Zixu Yan, Jiajun Bu, Sheng Zhou
arXiv AI
Jun 16

When RAG Hurts: Diagnosing and Mitigating Attention Distraction in Retrieval-Augmented LVLMs

arXiv:2602. 00344v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is one of the dominant paradigms for enhancing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) on knowledge-based VQA tasks, recent work attributes RAG failures to insufficient attention towards the retrieved context, proposing to reduce the attention allocated to image tokens.

By Beidi Zhao, Wenlong Deng, Xinting Liao, Yushu Li, Nazim Shaikh, Yao Nie, Xiaoxiao Li