DocMIDE: Learning Multi-Hop Implicit Derivation in Visually Rich Documents
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arXiv:2609.24092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world document processing systems rely on rigid, predefined schemas, yet critical target fields often lack direct visual counterparts on the page. Extracting these implicit values requires multi-hop derivation, such as aggregating sub-categories or reasoning over visual marks. While existing methods handle explicit text spans or simple implicit queries, they fail at multi-hop visual reasoning even after standard fine-tuning: models retrieve incorrect visual evidence, or retrieve it correctly and then skip the intermediate steps of the deriva
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.24092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world document processing systems rely on rigid, predefined schemas, yet critical target fields often lack direct visual counterparts on the page.
- Extracting these implicit values requires multi-hop derivation, such as aggregating sub-categories or reasoning over visual marks.
- While existing methods handle explicit text spans or simple implicit queries, they fail at multi-hop visual reasoning even after standard fine-tuning: models retrieve incorrect visual evidence, or retrieve it correctly and then skip the intermediate steps of the deriva
Why it matters
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