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New paper defines page-centric visual document retrieval, finds benchmarks lacking

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A new paper proposes a framework for page-centric Visual Document Retrieval (VDR), treating pages as the primary indexing units rather than just flat text. The research evaluates 42 existing benchmarks against eight criteria, revealing that current VDR research heavily favors page-level independent-item retrieval, with limited support for more complex retrieval paradigms like evidence-set or iterative retrieval. The paper also highlights a scarcity of real-world user information needs for query construction and inconsistent relevance judgments across benchmarks, identifying key areas for future benchmark development. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more sophisticated document retrieval systems that better understand and process visually rich documents.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper published on arXiv that introduces a new framework and evaluates existing benchmarks in a specific research area.

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New paper defines page-centric visual document retrieval, finds benchmarks lacking

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Aixin Sun ·

    Defining Page-Centric Visual Document Retrieval and Evaluating Existing Benchmarks

    In modern information retrieval (IR), documents are increasingly encountered as structured sequences of visually rich, paginated units, rather than as flat text. Example documents encountered in our daily life include Word files, PDFs, and slide decks. Free text-centric retrieval…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Chongzhi Zhang, Yuqi Zuo, Aixin Sun ·

    Defining Page-Centric Visual Document Retrieval and Evaluating Existing Benchmarks

    arXiv:2610.41360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In modern information retrieval (IR), documents are increasingly encountered as structured sequences of visually rich, paginated units, rather than as flat text. Example documents encountered in our daily life include Word files, …

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