4 papers
Visual Late Chunking: An Empirical Study of Contextual Chunking for Efficient Visual Document Retrieval
Yibo Yan, Mingdong Ou, Yi Cao +5
Multi-vector models dominate Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) due to their fine-grained matching capabilities, but their high storage and computational costs present a major barrier…
Beyond the Grid: Layout-Informed Multi-Vector Retrieval with Parsed Visual Document Representations
Yibo Yan, Mingdong Ou, Yi Cao +6
Harnessing the full potential of visually-rich documents requires retrieval systems that understand not just text, but intricate layouts, a core challenge in Visual Document Retrie…
Sculpting the Vector Space: Towards Efficient Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval via Prune-then-Merge Framework
Yibo Yan, Mingdong Ou, Yi Cao +5
Visual Document Retrieval (VDR), which aims to retrieve relevant pages within vast corpora of visually-rich documents, is of significance in current multimodal retrieval applicatio…
Gradient-Based Multi-Objective Deep Learning: Algorithms, Theories, Applications, and Beyond
Weiyu Chen, Baijiong Lin, Xiaoyuan Zhang +4
Many modern deep learning applications require balancing multiple objectives that are often conflicting. Examples include multi-task learning, fairness-aware learning, and the alig…