MoLoRAG: Bootstrapping Document Understanding via Multi-modal Logic-aware Retrieval (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Document Understanding is a foundational AI capability with broad applications . Large Vision-Language Models (LLMs) can't handle multi-page document comprehension . a logic-aware retrieval framework for multi-modal, multi- page document understanding is proposed . |
| Approach: | They propose a logic-aware retrieval framework for multi-modal, multi-page document understanding . MoLoRAG uses semantic and logical relevance to deliver more accurate retrieval . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on four DocQA datasets and demonstrates 9.68% accuracy improvement over existing methods. |
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