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Apr 29, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Doc‑V*: Reading Only 5 Pages Beats RAG on 80‑Page Docs – 10 Key Insights

Doc‑V* introduces a dynamic, thumbnail‑driven approach that lets a model decide which pages to read, achieving a 49.7% improvement over RAG variants on multi‑page document QA benchmarks without larger models or longer context windows, and demonstrates how strategic evidence acquisition outperforms naïve full‑document reading.