MultiDocFusion: Hierarchical and Multimodal Chunking Pipeline for Enhanced RAG on Long Industrial Documents

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Hauptverfasser: Shin, Joongmin, Park, Chanjun, Park, Jeongbae, Seo, Jaehyung, Lim, Heuiseok
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author Shin, Joongmin
Park, Chanjun
Park, Jeongbae
Seo, Jaehyung
Lim, Heuiseok
author_facet Shin, Joongmin
Park, Chanjun
Park, Jeongbae
Seo, Jaehyung
Lim, Heuiseok
contents RAG-based QA has emerged as a powerful method for processing long industrial documents. However, conventional text chunking approaches often neglect complex and long industrial document structures, causing information loss and reduced answer quality. To address this, we introduce MultiDocFusion, a multimodal chunking pipeline that integrates: (i) detection of document regions using vision-based document parsing, (ii) text extraction from these regions via OCR, (iii) reconstruction of document structure into a hierarchical tree using large language model (LLM)-based document section hierarchical parsing (DSHP-LLM), and (iv) construction of hierarchical chunks through DFS-based grouping. Extensive experiments across industrial benchmarks demonstrate that MultiDocFusion improves retrieval precision by 8-15% and ANLS QA scores by 2-3% compared to baselines, emphasizing the critical role of explicitly leveraging document hierarchy for multimodal document-based QA. These significant performance gains underscore the necessity of structure-aware chunking in enhancing the fidelity of RAG-based QA systems.
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spellingShingle MultiDocFusion: Hierarchical and Multimodal Chunking Pipeline for Enhanced RAG on Long Industrial Documents
Shin, Joongmin
Park, Chanjun
Park, Jeongbae
Seo, Jaehyung
Lim, Heuiseok
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
RAG-based QA has emerged as a powerful method for processing long industrial documents. However, conventional text chunking approaches often neglect complex and long industrial document structures, causing information loss and reduced answer quality. To address this, we introduce MultiDocFusion, a multimodal chunking pipeline that integrates: (i) detection of document regions using vision-based document parsing, (ii) text extraction from these regions via OCR, (iii) reconstruction of document structure into a hierarchical tree using large language model (LLM)-based document section hierarchical parsing (DSHP-LLM), and (iv) construction of hierarchical chunks through DFS-based grouping. Extensive experiments across industrial benchmarks demonstrate that MultiDocFusion improves retrieval precision by 8-15% and ANLS QA scores by 2-3% compared to baselines, emphasizing the critical role of explicitly leveraging document hierarchy for multimodal document-based QA. These significant performance gains underscore the necessity of structure-aware chunking in enhancing the fidelity of RAG-based QA systems.
title MultiDocFusion: Hierarchical and Multimodal Chunking Pipeline for Enhanced RAG on Long Industrial Documents
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12352