Unveil: Unified Visual-Textual Integration and Distillation for Multi-modal Document Retrieval

ArXi:2605.24530v1 Announce Type: new Document retrieval in real-world scenarios faces significant challenges due to diverse document formats and modalities. Traditional text-based approaches rely on tailored parsing techniques that disregard layout information and are prone to errors, while recent parsing-free visual methods often struggle to capture fine-grained textual semantics in text-rich scenarios.