Document-as-Image Representations Fall Short for Scientific Retrieval

arXiv:2604.18508 · cs.IR, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-04-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.IR, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-04-20

Updated: 2026-10-13

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