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New framework bypasses reasoning for multimodal QA, cuts inference costs

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Researchers have developed Perception-RFT, a novel training framework for multimodal document question answering that bypasses intermediate reasoning steps. This approach directly aligns visual features with grounding outputs, significantly reducing inference token costs by over 60% compared to reasoning-centric methods. Experiments on Qwen3-VL-4B models indicate that reasoning-enabled models converge to perception-based policies, outperforming reasoning-based reinforcement learning and demonstrating that an early transition from Supervised Fine-Tuning to Reinforcement Learning can achieve comparable precision with less training data. AI

IMPACT This approach could lead to more efficient and cost-effective multimodal AI systems by reducing computational overhead.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new training framework for multimodal document question answering.

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New framework bypasses reasoning for multimodal QA, cuts inference costs

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Harikrishnan P M, Goutham Vignesh, Ganesh Parab, Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Vishal Vaddina, Varun V, Rohit Agrawal ·

    Stop Thinking, Start Looking: Efficient Post-Training for Multimodal Document Question Answering via Reasoning-Free Alignment

    arXiv:2607.14682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient multimodal document question answering with explicit visual grounding, locating the precise document region that supports each answer remains an open challenge. Current approaches bifurcate into Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Rohit Agrawal ·

    Stop Thinking, Start Looking: Efficient Post-Training for Multimodal Document Question Answering via Reasoning-Free Alignment

    Efficient multimodal document question answering with explicit visual grounding, locating the precise document region that supports each answer remains an open challenge. Current approaches bifurcate into Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), which requires large annotated datasets and r…

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