AutothinkRAG: Complexity-Aware Control of Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Image-Text Interaction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05551v1
• Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:29:33 GMT
• Title: AutothinkRAG: Complexity-Aware Control of Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Image-Text Interaction
• Abstract summary: We propose a framework that enhances the understanding of complex documents by synergizing the capabilities of multiple models.<n> Specifically, we introduce a Query Complexity Router to allocate reasoning paths based on the analysis of query difficulty.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Information-intensive Document Question Answering (DocQA) is often constrained by long contexts and information overload, which hinders Vision-Language Models (VLMs) from performing precise direct reasoning. Although multimodal GraphRAG has achieved preliminary breakthroughs, existing frameworks still face dual challenges: (1) the necessity of large-scale models for handling queries of diverse complexities and (2) the inherent reasoning bottlenecks of end-to-end VLMs. To address these issues, we propose AutoThinkRAG, a framework that enhances the understanding of complex documents by synergizing the capabilities of multiple models. Specifically, we introduce a Query Complexity Router to allocate reasoning paths based on the analysis of query difficulty. Furthermore, to overcome the reasoning boundaries of VLM, we propose a functional decoupling architecture: a small-scale VLM serves as a high-fidelity visual interpreter to transform query-relevant visual cues into textual representations, which are subsequently processed by an LLM for logical deduction and synthesis. Extensive experiments on DocBench and MMLongBench demonstrate that AutoThinkRAG significantly reduces inference costs while achieving new state-of-the-art performance. Further ablation studies verifies the effectiveness of our proposed method.

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