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New multimodal model JETRTQA improves textbook question answering

Researchers have developed JETRTQA, a novel multimodal learning framework designed to improve textbook question answering by enhancing document retrieval. This model uses a retriever-generator architecture with a multimodal large language model to generate answers. JETRTQA refines semantic representations through joint training that combines pairwise ranking and implicit supervision from answers, leading to better discrimination between relevant and irrelevant documents. The approach significantly outperforms the previous state of the art on the CK12-QA dataset, achieving notable accuracy gains. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hessa Alawwad, Usman Naseem, Areej Alhothali, Ali Alkhathlan, Amani Jamal ·

    Beyond Retrieval: Joint Supervision and Multimodal Document Ranking for Textbook Question Answering

    arXiv:2505.13520v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Textbook question answering (TQA) is a complex task, requiring the interpretation of complex multimodal context. Although recent advances have improved overall performance, they often encounter difficulties in educational …