ReAlign: Optimizing the Visual Document Retriever with Reasoning-Guided Fine-Grained Alignment.

@inproceedings{yang-2026-realign, author = {Hao Yang and Eduardo Graells-Garrido and Zhipeng Xu and Yifan Ji and Eduardo Graells-Garrido and Zhipeng Xu and Zhenghao Liu and Yukun Yan and Zulong Chen and Shuo Wang and Yu Gu and Ge Yu}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{ReAlign: Optimizing the Visual Document Retriever with Reasoning-Guided Fine-Grained Alignment}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {2162--2173}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809602}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809602} }