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Multimodal learning seeks to integrate information from heterogeneous sources, where signals may be shared across modalities, specific to individual modalities, or emerge only through their interaction. While self-supervised multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Carolin Cissee , Raneen Younis , Zahra Ahmadi

Text-to-image multimodal tasks, generating/retrieving an image from a given text description, are extremely challenging tasks since raw text descriptions cover quite limited information in order to fully describe visually realistic images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Siwen Luo , Kunze Wang , Josiah Poon

We explore how multimodal Large Language Models (mLLMs) can help researchers transcribe historical documents, extract relevant historical information, and construct datasets from historical sources. Specifically, we investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Gavin Greif , Niclas Griesshaber , Robin Greif

We present OCR-Quality, a comprehensive human-annotated dataset designed for evaluating and developing OCR quality assessment methods. The dataset consists of 1,000 PDF pages converted to PNG images at 300 DPI, sampled from diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yulong Zhang

The ability to understand and answer questions over documents can be useful in many business and practical applications. However, documents often contain lengthy and diverse multimodal contents such as texts, figures, and tables, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yew Ken Chia , Liying Cheng , Hou Pong Chan , Chaoqun Liu , Maojia Song , Sharifah Mahani Aljunied , Soujanya Poria , Lidong Bing

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved the field of Document AI, demonstrating remarkable performance on document understanding tasks such as question answering. However, existing approaches primarily…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Gyuho Shim , Seongtae Hong , Heuiseok Lim

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a multimodal retrieval task where a query consists of a reference image and a textual modification, and the goal is to retrieve a target image satisfying both. In principle, strong performance on CIR…

Multimodal molecular representation learning, which jointly models molecular graphs and their textual descriptions, enhances predictive accuracy and interpretability by enabling more robust and reliable predictions of drug toxicity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yingxu Wang , Kunyu Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Nan Yin , Siwei Liu , Eran Segal

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to dynamically access external information, which is powerful for answering questions over previously unseen documents. Nonetheless, they struggle with high-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chi-Hsiang Hsiao , Yi-Cheng Wang , Tzung-Sheng Lin , Yi-Ren Yeh , Chu-Song Chen

Multimodal entity linking plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications. Recent advances in large language model-based methods have become the dominant paradigm for this task, effectively leveraging both textual and visual modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziyan Liu , Junwen Li , Kaiwen Li , Tong Ruan , Chao Wang , Xinyan He , Zongyu Wang , Xuezhi Cao , Jingping Liu

In this study, we formulate an OCR-free sequence generation model for visual document understanding (VDU). Our model not only parses text from document images but also extracts the spatial coordinates of the text based on the multi-head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yamato Okamoto , Youngmin Baek , Geewook Kim , Ryota Nakao , DongHyun Kim , Moon Bin Yim , Seunghyun Park , Bado Lee

Despite significant progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their performance on complex, multi-page document comprehension remains inadequate, largely due to the lack of high-quality, document-level datasets. While current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yuchen Duan , Zhe Chen , Yusong Hu , Weiyun Wang , Shenglong Ye , Botian Shi , Lewei Lu , Qibin Hou , Tong Lu , Hongsheng Li , Jifeng Dai , Wenhai Wang

In the real world, where information is abundant and diverse across different modalities, understanding and utilizing various data types to improve retrieval systems is a key focus of research. Multimodal composite retrieval integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Suyan Li , Fuxiang Huang , Lei Zhang

The traditional RAG paradigm, which typically engages in the comprehension of relevant text chunks in response to received queries, inherently restricts both the depth of knowledge internalization and reasoning capabilities. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jihao Zhao , Zhiyuan Ji , Simin Niu , Hanyu Wang , Feiyu Xiong , Zhiyu Li

Visually Rich Document Understanding (VRDU) has become a pivotal area of research, driven by the need to automatically interpret documents that contain intricate visual, textual, and structural elements. Recently, Multimodal Large Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yihao Ding , Siwen Luo , Yue Dai , Yanbei Jiang , Zechuan Li , Qiang Sun , Geoffrey Martin , Wei Liu , Yifan Peng

With the growing adoption of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in document processing, robust text recognition has become increasingly critical for knowledge extraction. While OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for English and other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ahmed Heakl , Abdullah Sohail , Mukul Ranjan , Rania Hossam , Ghazi Shazan Ahmad , Mohamed El-Geish , Omar Maher , Zhiqiang Shen , Fahad Khan , Salman Khan

Information Retrieval (IR) methods aim to identify documents relevant to a query, which have been widely applied in various natural language tasks. However, existing approaches typically consider only the textual content within documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jaewoo Lee , Joonho Ko , Jinheon Baek , Soyeong Jeong , Sung Ju Hwang

Improving visual text synthesis has long been a challenging and evolving frontier for image generation models. While recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) models have made remarkable strides in text generation capabilities, existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Peirong Zhang , Haowei Xu , Jiaxin Zhang , Xuhan Zheng , Guitao Xu , Yuyi Zhang , Junle Liu , Zhenhua Yang , Wei Zhou , Lianwen Jin

Document parsing is now widely used in applications, such as large-scale document digitization, retrieval-augmented generation, and domain-specific pipelines in healthcare and education. Benchmarking these models is crucial for assessing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Deniz Yılmaz , Evren Ayberk Munis , Çağrı Toraman , Süha Kağan Köse , Burak Aktaş , Mehmet Can Baytekin , Bilge Kaan Görür