ICDAR2026 Competition on Multimodal Reasoning over Documents in Multiple Domains
In this report we present results of the ICDAR2026 Competition on Multimodal Reasoning over Documents in Multiple Domains. This competition aimed to advance research in document understanding through the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA). Building upon previous DocVQA benchmarks, this competition introduces challenging reasoning questions over a diverse collection of documents spanning eight domains, including business reports, scientific papers, slides, posters, maps, comics, infographics, and engineering drawings. The competition concluded with 20 valid submissions from 8 teams spanning zero-shot VLMs, OCR and parser-augmented pipelines, agentic retrieval systems, multi-agent ense...
| Authors | Artemis Llabrés, Marc Serra Ortega, Tomàs Ockier et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 8 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 8 September 2026 |
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