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With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a predominant method in the field of professional knowledge-based question answering. Presently, major foundation model companies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Demiao Lin

The multi-modal long-context document question-answering task aims to locate and integrate multi-modal evidences (such as texts, tables, charts, images, and layouts) distributed across multiple pages, for question understanding and answer…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ziyu Gong , Chengcheng Mai , Yihua Huang

Multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MMRAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing Multimodal Large Language Models in knowledge-intensive question answering by integrating external visual, textual, and structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiang Fang , Wanlong Fang , Changshuo Wang

With the rapid advancement of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), their capability in understanding both images and text has greatly improved. However, their potential for leveraging multi-modal contextual information in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zhenghao Liu , Xingsheng Zhu , Tianshuo Zhou , Xinyi Zhang , Xiaoyuan Yi , Yukun Yan , Ge Yu , Maosong Sun

We introduce MiRAGE, an evaluation framework for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) from multimodal sources. As audiovisual media becomes a prevalent source of information online, it is essential for RAG systems to integrate information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Alexander Martin , William Walden , Reno Kriz , Dengjia Zhang , Kate Sanders , Eugene Yang , Chihsheng Jin , Benjamin Van Durme

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a powerful paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) through external knowledge retrieval. Despite its widespread attention, existing academic research predominantly focuses on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yiruo Cheng , Kelong Mao , Ziliang Zhao , Guanting Dong , Hongjin Qian , Yongkang Wu , Tetsuya Sakai , Ji-Rong Wen , Zhicheng Dou

Despite recent progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), reliable visual question answering in aerial scenes remains challenging. In such scenes, task-critical evidence is often carried by small objects, explicit quantities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junxiao Xue , Quan Deng , Tingqi Hu , Meicong Si , Xinyi Yin , Yunyun Shi , Xuecheng Wu

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems offer a promising approach to reduce hallucinations and improve answer accuracy in large language models (LLMs), a requirement for reliable, financial analysis where answers must be grounded in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Magnus Samuelsen , Wilmer Nyström , Somnath Mazumdar , Mansoor Hussain , Mikkel Strange

Multi-hop Question Answering (QA) necessitates complex reasoning by integrating multiple pieces of information to resolve intricate questions. However, existing QA systems encounter challenges such as outdated information, context window…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Xiaoming Zhang , Ming Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Shi Feng , Yifei Zhang

Recent advancements in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have significantly enhanced the ability of large language models (LLMs) to perform complex question-answering (QA) tasks. In this paper, we introduce MedBioRAG, a…

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To effectively engage in human society, the ability to adapt, filter information, and make informed decisions in ever-changing situations is critical. As robots and intelligent agents become more integrated into human life, there is a…

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Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) faces dual challenges in processing lengthy multimodal documents (text, images, tables) and performing cross-modal reasoning. Current document retrieval-augmented generation (DocRAG) methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kuicai Dong , Yujing Chang , Shijie Huang , Yasheng Wang , Ruiming Tang , Yong Liu

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become prevalent in question-answering (QA) tasks due to its ability of utilizing search engine to enhance the quality of long-form question-answering (LFQA). Despite the emergence of various open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Tianchi Cai , Zhiwen Tan , Xierui Song , Tao Sun , Jiyan Jiang , Yunqi Xu , Yinger Zhang , Jinjie Gu

Textual descriptions for multimodal inputs entail recurrent refinement of queries to produce relevant output images. Despite efforts to address challenges such as scaling model size and data volume, the cost associated with pre-training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Amit Kumar Jaiswal , Haiming Liu , Ingo Frommholz

Current Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems primarily operate on unimodal textual data, limiting their effectiveness on unstructured multimodal documents. Such documents often combine text, images, tables, equations, and graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Rashmi R , Vidyadhar Upadhya

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising technique to enhance the quality and relevance of responses generated by large language models. While recent advancements have mainly focused on improving RAG for text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ainulla Khan , Yamada Moyuru , Srinidhi Akella

Multimodal information extraction (MIE) aims to extract structured information from unstructured multimedia content. Due to the diversity of tasks and settings, most current MIE models are task-specific and data-intensive, which limits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yuxuan Sun , Kai Zhang , Yu Su

Question Answering (QA) systems have traditionally relied on structured text data, but the rapid growth of multimedia content (images, audio, video, and structured metadata) has introduced new challenges and opportunities for…

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Multimodal document question answering requires retrieving dispersed evidence from visually rich long documents and performing reliable reasoning over heterogeneous information. Existing multimodal RAG systems remain limited by two…

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