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VLD-RAG introduces an agentic framework that enhances retrieval accuracy for long, visually complex documents by integrating multimodal signals with a verifier-guided workflow. This approach effectively addresses the challenge of cross-page reasoning where evidence is scattered across text and visual elements like charts or tables. The results demonstrate significant improvements in grounding answers using hybrid sparse-dense search strategies over existing vision-based baselines.
VLD-RAG: Agentic Vision-Language Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Long, Visually-Rich Multi-Page Documents
arXiv:2607.24748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visually-rich documents such as reports, slides, and manuals often distribute the evidence needed to answer a question across multiple pages, mixing text with layout cues, tables, charts, and figures. This work studies multimodal retrieval-augmented generation for question answering over such visually-rich long documents, where retrieval must select evidence pages that include both textual and visual signals. We present VLD-RAG, an agentic multimodal RAG framework for multi-page evidence retrieval and cross-page reasoning over long documents. VLD-RAG builds a page-preserving multimodal index that stores parsed text, page-level metadata, and dense visual representations, and uses a hybrid retrieval strategy that combines keyword-based sparse search with dense semantic queries to identify candidate sources and evidence pages. A verifier-guided agent workflow coordinates a Retrieval Agent, Answer Agent, and Validation Agent to broaden evidence coverage, detect missing citations, and refine retrieval requests when needed. We evaluate retrieval with Top-1 and Top-5 evidence-page accuracy and generation with generalized accuracy, and show that VLD-RAG improves both evidence-page retrieval and end-task question answering on visually-rich long-document benchmarks, including LongDocURL and MMLongBench-Doc, outperforming previous vision-based retrieval baselines. These findings highlight that coordinated agent verification and multimodal hybrid retrieval are crucial for reliable grounding when correct answers depend on evidence scattered across pages.
Abstract:Visually-rich documents such as reports, slides, and manuals often distribute the evidence needed to answer a question across multiple pages, mixing text with layout cues, tables, charts, and figures. This work studies multimodal retrieval-augmented generation for question answering over such visually-rich long documents, where retrieval must select evidence pages that include both textual and visual signals. We present VLD-RAG, an agentic multimodal RAG framework for multi-page evidence retrieval and cross-page reasoning over long documents. VLD-RAG builds a page-preserving multimodal index that stores parsed text, page-level metadata, and dense visual representations, and uses a hybrid retrieval strategy that combines keyword-based sparse search with dense semantic queries to identify candidate sources and evidence pages. A verifier-guided agent workflow coordinates a Retrieval Agent, Answer Agent, and Validation Agent to broaden evidence coverage, detect missing citations, and refine retrieval requests when needed. We evaluate retrieval with Top-1 and Top-5 evidence-page accuracy and generation with generalized accuracy, and show that VLD-RAG improves both evidence-page retrieval and end-task question answering on visually-rich long-document benchmarks, including LongDocURL and MMLongBench-Doc, outperforming previous vision-based retrieval baselines. These findings highlight that coordinated agent verification and multimodal hybrid retrieval are crucial for reliable grounding when correct answers depend on evidence scattered across pages.
Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2607.24748 [cs.IR]
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