DR Pixel: Page-Native Deep Research with Vision-Language Models
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabDR Pixel is presented as an open-source multimodal deep research agent that retrieves and reasons over rendered document page images instead of OCR-extracted text, operating over a 1.06M-page corpus. The authors introduce DRPixelBench, a benchmark on scientific papers requiring reasoning over text, figures, tables, and equations. They report that page-native deep research outperforms OCR-based baselines without training, and that counterfactual credit reweighting for agentic finetuning improves retrieval recall and final accuracy.
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DR Pixel is presented as an open-source multimodal deep research agent that retrieves and reasons over rendered document page images instead of OCR-extracted text, operating over a 1.06M-page corpus. The authors introduce DRPixelBench, a benchmark on scientific papers requiring reasoning over text, figures, tables, and equations. They report that page-native deep research outperforms OCR-based baselines without training, and that counterfactual credit reweighting for agentic finetuning improves retrieval recall and final accuracy.
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- Page-native deep research outperforms OCR-based baselines across GPT-5.4, Gemini-3.5-Flash, and Qwen3.6-27B without training, using fewer tool calls.
- Counterfactual credit reweighting improves retrieval recall by about 15 points and final accuracy by over 10 points on DRPixelBench.
- On out-of-distribution ViDoRe-V3, DR Pixel comes within 1.8 points of an oracle given gold pages directly.
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