Yanxin Zhang


2026

Document Question Answering (DQA) involves generating answers from a document based on a user’s query, representing a key task in document understanding. This task requires interpreting visual layouts, which has prompted recent studies to adopt multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that processes page images for answer generation. However, in multimodal RAG, visual DQA struggles to utilize a large number of images effectively, as the retrieval stage often retains only a few candidate pages (e.g., Top-4), causing informative but less visually salient content to be overlooked in favor of common yet low-information pages. To address this issue, we propose a Multi-Armed Bandit–based DQA framework (MAB-DQA) to explicitly model the varying importance of multiple implicit aspects in a query. Specifically, MAB-DQA decomposes a query into aspect-aware subqueries and retrieves an aspect-specific candidate set for each. It treats each subquery as an arm and uses preliminary reasoning results from a small number of representative pages as reward signals to estimate aspect utility. Guided by an exploration–exploitation policy, MAB-DQA dynamically reallocates retrieval budgets toward high-value aspects. With the most informative pages and their correlations, MAB-DQA generates the expected results. On four benchmarks, MAB-DQA shows an average improvement of 5%-18% over the state-of-the-art method, consistently enhancing document understanding. Codes are available at https://github.com/ElephantOH/MAB-DQA.
Sign Language Production (SLP) is the process of converting the complex input text into a real video. Most previous works focused on the Text2Gloss, Gloss2Pose, Pose2Vid stages, and some concentrated on Prompt2Gloss and Text2Avatar stages. However, this field has made slow progress due to the inaccuracy of text conversion, pose generation, and the rendering of poses into real human videos in these stages, resulting in gradually accumulating errors. Therefore, in this paper, we streamline the traditional redundant structure, simplify and optimize the task objective, and design a new sign language generative model called **Stable Signer**. It redefines the SLP task as a hierarchical generation end-to-end task that only includes text understanding (Prompt2Gloss, Text2Gloss) and Pose2Vid, and executes text understanding through our proposed new **S**ign **L**anguage **U**nderstanding **L**inker called **SLUL**, and generates hand gestures through the named **SLP-MoE** hand gesture rendering expert block to end-to-end generate high-quality and multi-style sign language videos. SLUL is trained using the newly developed **S**emantic-**A**ware **G**loss **M**asking Loss (**SAGM Loss**). Its performance has improved by 48.6% compared to the current SOTA generation methods, which is a significant increase in the SLP field. More demo can be obtained at [anonymous url](https://anonymoussubmissionurl.github.io/Stable-Signer).