Doc-V*:Coarse-to-Fine Interactive Visual Reasoning for Multi-Page Document VQA

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Auteurs principaux: Zheng, Yuanlei, Fu, Pei, Li, Hang, Wang, Ziyang, Zhang, Yuyi, Ruan, Wenyu, Zhang, Xiaojin, Wei, Zhongyu, Luo, Zhenbo, Luan, Jian, Chen, Wei, Bai, Xiang
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author Zheng, Yuanlei
Fu, Pei
Li, Hang
Wang, Ziyang
Zhang, Yuyi
Ruan, Wenyu
Zhang, Xiaojin
Wei, Zhongyu
Luo, Zhenbo
Luan, Jian
Chen, Wei
Bai, Xiang
author_facet Zheng, Yuanlei
Fu, Pei
Li, Hang
Wang, Ziyang
Zhang, Yuyi
Ruan, Wenyu
Zhang, Xiaojin
Wei, Zhongyu
Luo, Zhenbo
Luan, Jian
Chen, Wei
Bai, Xiang
contents Multi-page Document Visual Question Answering requires reasoning over semantics, layouts, and visual elements in long, visually dense documents. Existing OCR-free methods face a trade-off between capacity and precision: end-to-end models scale poorly with document length, while visual retrieval-based pipelines are brittle and passive. We propose Doc-$V^*$, an \textbf{OCR-free agentic} framework that casts multi-page DocVQA as sequential evidence aggregation. Doc-$V^*$ begins with a thumbnail overview, then actively navigates via semantic retrieval and targeted page fetching, and aggregates evidence in a structured working memory for grounded reasoning. Trained by imitation learning from expert trajectories and further optimized with Group Relative Policy Optimization, Doc-$V^*$ balances answer accuracy with evidence-seeking efficiency. Across five benchmarks, Doc-$V^*$ outperforms open-source baselines and approaches proprietary models, improving out-of-domain performance by up to \textbf{47.9\%} over RAG baseline. Other results reveal effective evidence aggregation with selective attention, not increased input pages.
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spellingShingle Doc-V*:Coarse-to-Fine Interactive Visual Reasoning for Multi-Page Document VQA
Zheng, Yuanlei
Fu, Pei
Li, Hang
Wang, Ziyang
Zhang, Yuyi
Ruan, Wenyu
Zhang, Xiaojin
Wei, Zhongyu
Luo, Zhenbo
Luan, Jian
Chen, Wei
Bai, Xiang
Computation and Language
Multi-page Document Visual Question Answering requires reasoning over semantics, layouts, and visual elements in long, visually dense documents. Existing OCR-free methods face a trade-off between capacity and precision: end-to-end models scale poorly with document length, while visual retrieval-based pipelines are brittle and passive. We propose Doc-$V^*$, an \textbf{OCR-free agentic} framework that casts multi-page DocVQA as sequential evidence aggregation. Doc-$V^*$ begins with a thumbnail overview, then actively navigates via semantic retrieval and targeted page fetching, and aggregates evidence in a structured working memory for grounded reasoning. Trained by imitation learning from expert trajectories and further optimized with Group Relative Policy Optimization, Doc-$V^*$ balances answer accuracy with evidence-seeking efficiency. Across five benchmarks, Doc-$V^*$ outperforms open-source baselines and approaches proprietary models, improving out-of-domain performance by up to \textbf{47.9\%} over RAG baseline. Other results reveal effective evidence aggregation with selective attention, not increased input pages.
title Doc-V*:Coarse-to-Fine Interactive Visual Reasoning for Multi-Page Document VQA
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13731