Haosen Wang


2026

Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) aims to generate answers by jointly understanding the textual, layout, and visual elements within document images. Although end-to-end vision-based generative methods have reduced dependency on OCR, they still struggle to achieve precise evidence localization when page semantics are complex and highly similar. However, existing research lacks an in-depth theoretical analysis of the question-driven semantic representation space, failing to fundamentally address the distinguishability problem among semantically similar pages. To fill this theoretical gap, we propose and prove that, given a specific question, each page possesses a unique semantic representation, and there exists a bijective mapping between the page and its unique semantics. Based on this theoretical foundation, we introduce the Flow-Based Page Unique Semantic Mapping Architecture (FUMA), which reconstructs evidence localization from similarity-based retrieval into precise selection on unique semantics. FUMA employs fine-grained cross-modal attention to extract discriminative cues and utilizes flow-based reversible transformations with likelihood regularization to learn bijective mappings, ensuring that each page obtains a unique semantic representation. Moreover, a multi-expert collaboration mechanism complementarily models fine-grained multimodal information within each page, achieving robust answer generation. Experimental results demonstrate that FUMA significantly outperforms existing methods in both evidence localization and answer generation.
Recent advances in synergizing large reasoning models (LRMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have shown promising results, yet two critical challenges remain: (1) reasoning models typically operate from a single, unchallenged perspective, limiting their ability to conduct deep, self-correcting reasoning over external documents, and (2) existing training paradigms rely excessively on outcome-oriented rewards, which provide insufficient signal for shaping the complex, multi-step reasoning process. To address these issues, we propose an Reasoner-Verifier framework named Adversarial Reasoning RAG (ARR). The Reasoner and Verifier engage in reasoning on retrieved evidence and critiquing each other’s logic while being guided by process-aware advantage that requires no external scoring model. This reward combines explicit observational signals with internal model uncertainty to jointly optimize reasoning fidelity and verification rigor. Experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Our code is available at [link](https://github.com/lakhfskn/anonymous-code-of-arr).