arXiv AI August 21, 2026 By Alin-Ionut Popa

Question-Guided Evidence Acquisition for Multimodal Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2608. 19739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal LLMs can see a document, but they often can't read it reliably.

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