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New AI Model Uses Document Screenshots to Revolutionize Search Across Text and Images

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Overview

  • This paper presents a novel approach for unifying multimodal retrieval by leveraging document screenshots as a common representation.
  • The authors propose a Document Screenshot Embedding (DocSE) model that can jointly encode text, images, and document layouts to enable cross-modal retrieval.
  • The DocSE model is trained on a large-scale dataset of document screenshots and demonstrates strong performance on various multimodal retrieval tasks.

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The paper introduces a new way to search for information across different types of data, like text, images, and documents. The key idea is to use screenshots of documents as a common representation that can connect these different modalities.

The researchers developed a model ...

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