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DocFS framework uses file systems for advanced multimodal document QA

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Researchers have developed DocFS, a novel framework that leverages file system structures to enhance multimodal document question answering for vision-language models (VLMs). By organizing documents as file systems, where directories represent section hierarchies and links connect multimodal content, DocFS provides agents with intuitive tools for navigation and information retrieval. When paired with the Qwen3.5-Plus model, DocFS achieved state-of-the-art results on the MMLongBench-Doc and FinRAGBench-V benchmarks, demonstrating significant improvements in accuracy and efficiency. AI

IMPACT This framework could improve how AI agents process and answer questions from complex, multimodal documents.

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DocFS framework uses file systems for advanced multimodal document QA

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Xueqi Cheng ·

    DocFS: File Systems as Agentic Reasoning Environments for Complex Multimodal Document Question Answering

    VLM-based agents solve complex tasks by iteratively interacting with environments, and their effectiveness depends heavily on how the environment exposes information and provides tools for acting on it. However, constructing an effective environment for complex multimodal documen…

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