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ColMate: Contrastive Late Interaction and Masked Text for Multimodal Document Retrieval
Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Patrice Bechard +9
Retrieval-augmented generation has proven practical when models require specialized knowledge or access to the latest data. However, existing methods for multimodal document retrie…
AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding
Ahmed Masry, Juan A. Rodriguez, Tianyu Zhang +19
Aligning visual features with language embeddings is a key challenge in vision-language models (VLMs). The performance of such models hinges on having a good connector that maps vi…
BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Finetuning
Ahmed Masry, Abhay Puri, Masoud Hashemi +13
Charts are essential to data analysis, transforming raw data into clear visual representations that support human decision-making. Although current vision-language models (VLMs) ha…
Augmenting LLM Reasoning with Dynamic Notes Writing for Complex QA
Rishabh Maheshwary, Masoud Hashemi, Khyati Mahajan +5
Iterative RAG for multi-hop question answering faces challenges with lengthy contexts and the buildup of irrelevant information. This hinders a model's capacity to process and reas…