LightSTAR: Efficient Visual Document Retrieval via Lightweight Selection with Vision-Adaptive Refinement

By Tongkun Guan, Haocheng Wang, Wei Shen, Xiao-Kang Yang. 2026

Subfields: Information Retrieval & Search, Multimodal Learning, Efficiency & Compression

Citations in the corpus

• VaRS-Doc: Interpretation-Aware Variant Representations via Latent Self-Probing for Visual Document Retrieval (2026, unknown): “Recent MLLM-based retrievers (Jiang et al. 2024, 2025; Günther et al. 2025; Nussbaum, Duderstadt, and Mul-yar 2024; Team 2025; Guan et al. 2026; Zeng et al. 2021, 2023, 2024; Qin et al. 2025), including ColPali (Faysse et al. 2025), ColQwen (Faysse et al. 2025; Bai et al. 2025), and VisRAG (Yu et…”