CMDR assesses multimodal document retrieval across pages
The article presents CMDR and CMDR-Bench for retrieving relevant pages from multimodal documents when queries depend on context spanning multiple pages.
Published on July 8, 2026, the article presents CMDR and CMDR-Bench, designed to retrieve relevant pages from multimodal documents. The work addresses queries requiring context distributed across multiple pages and also describes an embedding model for this task.
The text notes that page-by-page retrieval can lose context needed to answer questions about a document. To check the scope and findings, consult the original article and verify its methods, data, and conclusions there; the available summary provides no metrics or quantitative results.