Teaching LMs Raw Document Visual Info Directly
_akhaliq · x · 2026-07-15
This post highlights research on Scalable Visual Pretraining for Language Intelligence.
The authors propose a new Visual Pretraining paradigm where language models learn directly from raw documents instead of relying on prior text extraction. This approach preserves the visual information typically lost during the text conversion process.
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