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2026-08-20
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Can a Lightweight Multimodal Model Estimate LLM Reasoning Performance? A Study for Compute-Optimal Document Inference
Researchers introduced BudgetDoc, the first multimodal benchmark for model-budget-performance trade-offs in document tasks, and trained DRB (Document-Reasoning Balancer), a 1B-parameter pre-flight est…