PixelRAG shows that operating RAG entirely over web screenshots outperforms text-based retrieval on NQ, SimpleQA, MMSearch, LiveVQA, and MoNaCo, with up to 18.1% accuracy gains and 3x token savings via image compression.
Unlocking multimodal document intelligence: From current triumphs to future frontiers of visual document retrieval.arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19961, 2026
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ColChunk adaptively chunks visual document patches into contextual multi-vectors via clustering, cutting storage by over 90% while raising average nDCG@5 by 9 points.
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PIXELRAG: Web Screenshots Beat Text for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
PixelRAG shows that operating RAG entirely over web screenshots outperforms text-based retrieval on NQ, SimpleQA, MMSearch, LiveVQA, and MoNaCo, with up to 18.1% accuracy gains and 3x token savings via image compression.
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Visual Late Chunking: An Empirical Study of Contextual Chunking for Efficient Visual Document Retrieval
ColChunk adaptively chunks visual document patches into contextual multi-vectors via clustering, cutting storage by over 90% while raising average nDCG@5 by 9 points.