Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Shunliang Fu
dblp:427/6817
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0004-0943-5884ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Question answering and dialogue systems · 44% Vision and language · 44% Knowledge representation and reasoning · 13% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems › machine reading comprehension
document question answering |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DMAP: Human-Aligned Structural Document Map for Multimodal Document Understanding · WWW 2026 |
Computer vision › Vision and language › multimodal understanding
multimodal document understanding |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DMAP: Human-Aligned Structural Document Map for Multimodal Document Understanding · WWW 2026 |
Information retrieval
retrieval-augmented generation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DMAP: Human-Aligned Structural Document Map for Multimodal Document Understanding · WWW 2026 |
Information retrieval › document retrieval
structure-aware retrieval |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DMAP: Human-Aligned Structural Document Map for Multimodal Document Understanding · WWW 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
retrieval-augmented generation · 2.0reflective reasoning · 2.0multimodal agents · 1.0multi-modal agent · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DMAP: Human-Aligned Structural Document Map for Multimodal Document UnderstandingabstractExisting multimodal document question-answering (QA) systems predominantly rely on flat semantic retrieval, representing documents as a set of disconnected text chunks and largely neglecting their intrinsic hierarchical and relational structures. Such flattening disrupts logical and spatial dependencies—such as section organization, figure-text correspondence, and cross-reference relations—that humans naturally exploit for comprehension. To address this limitation, we introduce a document-level structural Document MAP (DMAP), which explicitly encodes both hierarchical organization and inter-element relationships within multimodal documents. Specifically, we design a Structured-Semantic Understanding Agent to construct DMAP by organizing textual content together with figures, tables, charts, etc into a human-aligned hierarchical schema that captures both semantic and layout dependencies. Building upon this representation, a Reflective Reasoning Agent performs structure-aware and evidence-driven reasoning, dynamically assessing the sufficiency of retrieved context and iteratively refining answers through targeted interactions with DMAP. Extensive experiments on MMDocQA benchmarks demonstrate that DMAP yields document-specific structural representations aligned with human interpretive patterns, substantially enhancing retrieval precision, reasoning consistency, and multimodal comprehension over conventional RAG-based approaches. Code is available at https://github.com/Forlorin/DMAP Shunliang Fu, Yixin Xiang, Xiaoyu Du 0002, Jinhui Tang 0001 |
WWW | 1 |