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UniDoc: Towards Unified Thinking in Documents
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摘要
Answering questions over long, visually rich documents demands both cross-page structural reasoning and fine-grained visual understanding. Existing approaches sacrifice one for the other: retrieval-augmented methods fragment documents and lose inter-page structure; monolithic vision-language models preserve structure but scale poorly beyond a few pages. This impasse stems from a false premise: that the macroscopic task of evidence retrieval and the microscopic task of detailed reasoning must either be split into separate systems or be processed identically. By decoupling their perceptual resolutions rather than their architectures, a single model can achieve the structural holism of monolithic processing alongside the efficiency of targeted retrieval. UniDoc realizes this through two resolution-adaptive stages: a Fast Reading stage processes all pages at low resolution to structurally identify evidence pages, and a Focused Thinking stage re-processes only those pages at high resolution for multimodal inference. To train this pipeline, we construct 30K multi-hop reasoning instances with stage-level supervision. On MMLongBench-Doc, UniDoc yields relative accuracy gains of 55.7% on Qwen2.5-VL-7B and 16.9% on Qwen3-VL-8B, while significantly reducing token cost relative to uniform high-resolution processing. Error analysis identifies page retrieval and fine-grained visual reasoning as the remaining bottlenecks, delineating concrete targets for future work.
作者备注：Accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
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UniDoc: Towards Unified Thinking in Documents
Answering questions over long, visually rich documents demands both cross-page structural reasoning and fine-grained visual understanding. Existing approaches sacrifice one for the other: retrieval-augmented methods fragment documents and lose inter-page structure; monolithic vision-language models preserve structure but scale poorly beyond a few pages. This impasse stems from a false premise: that the macroscopic task of evidence retrieval and the microscopic task of detailed reasoning must either be split into separate systems or be processed identically. By decoupling their perceptual resolutions rather than their architectures, a single model can achieve the structural holism of monolithic processing alongside the efficiency of targeted retrieval. UniDoc realizes this through two resolution-adaptive stages: a Fast Reading stage processes all pages at low resolution to structurally identify evidence pages, and a Focused Thinking stage re-processes only those pages at high resolution for multimodal inference. To train this pipeline, we construct 30K multi-hop reasoning instances with stage-level supervision. On MMLongBench-Doc, UniDoc yields relative accuracy gains of 55.7% on Qwen2.5-VL-7B and 16.9% on Qwen3-VL-8B, while significantly reducing token cost relative to uniform high-resolution processing. Error analysis identifies page retrieval and fine-grained visual reasoning as the remaining bottlenecks, delineating concrete targets for future work.
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