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[Submitted on 22 Nov 2025 (v1), last revised 28 Nov 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled ARIAL: An Agentic Framework for Document VQA with Precise Answer Localization, by Ahmad Mohammadshirazi and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Document Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires models to not only extract accurate textual answers but also precisely localize them within document images, a capability critical for interpretability in high-stakes applications. However, existing systems achieve strong textual accuracy while producing unreliable spatial grounding, or sacrifice performance for interpretability. We present ARIAL (Agentic Reasoning for Interpretable Answer Localization), a…
Cyber Monday is almost over. We’ve seen some of the best deals of the year make their appearance over this weekend, and it’s not too late. For Cyber Monday, Best Buy has had (or kept around) some really solid tech deals on some of our favorite products we’ve tested and reviewed, ranging from laptops and gaming mice to cordless vacuums. So, whether you’re shopping for the perfect gift for that tech lover in your life or if you’ve been waiting all year for prices to drop on something for yourself, there are a few great options below.For more great discounts,…
Cyber Monday is coming to a close, but there are still plenty of great deals to be had – if you act fast. One of my favorite gaming mice is still being sold at a great price for the next few hours: get the Razer Basilisk V3 X HyperSpeed for $37.99 (was $69.99) at Best Buy.• Shop Best Buy’s full Cyber Monday saleThis mouse design is clearly Razer’s answer to the ever-popular (and in some circles, infamous) Logitech G502 – and it’s a good answer. The Basilisk V3 X HyperSpeed is incredibly comfortable to use during long gaming sessions, and…
The Black Friday through Cyber Monday stretch known as Cyber Week is known as the best time of year to take advantage of crazy discounts at retail giants like Amazon and big box stores like Best Buy and Target. But it’s also a great opportunity to stock up on gifts and essentials from small businesses, many of which only run a handful of sales each year.My team and I have spent the whole weekend scouring the internet for the best deals on kitchen gear and pantry products, and I’m happy to report that many of our favorite small brands are…
For as long as online search has existed, there has been a subset of marketers, webmasters, and SEOs eager to cheat the system to gain an unfair and undeserved advantage. Black Hat SEO is only less common these days because Google spent two-plus decades developing ever-more sophisticated algorithms to neutralize and penalize the techniques they used to game the search rankings. Often, the vanishingly small likelihood of achieving any long-term benefit is no longer worth the effort and expense. Now AI has opened a new frontier, a new online gold rush. This time, instead of search rankings, the fight is…
to this “Advent Calendar” of Machine learning and deep learning in Excel. For Day 1, we begin with the k-NN (k-Nearest Neighbors) regressor algorithm. And as you will see, this is really the simplest model and it is a good way to start. For those who already know this model, here are some questions for you. Hopefully, they will make you want to continue reading. And there are some subtle lessons that are not taught in traditional courses. Is scaling of continuous features important for this model? How can categorical features be handled? What should be done to the continuous…
In a carefully worded announcement on Monday, Apple said John Giannandrea, who has been the company’s AI chief since 2018, is “stepping down” to, well, not work at Apple anymore. He’ll stick around through spring as an adviser. His replacement is Amar Subramanya, a highly regarded Microsoft executive who spent 16 years at Google, most recently leading engineering for the Gemini Assistant. It’s a savvy hire, given that Subramanya knows the competition intimately. The move is being characterized as a shake-up. It was seemingly inevitable in retrospect. Apple Intelligence, the company’s answer to the ChatGPT moment, has been stumbling since…
I recently had to complete a stack of comprehensive medical forms, and for some reason, every page had to be filled in by hand. By no means am I against an opportunity to improve my poor penmanship, but by page 13, I was genuinely confused as to why I couldn’t fill in these forms online. Automatically organize your files I still don’t know the answer to that, but what I do know is that digitally fillable PDFs make everyone’s lives easier: there’s no physical paperwork to print or store, it’s more accessible, and no one has to worry about deciphering chicken…
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents The smartwatch market is getting very crowded, and that’s good news The best smartwatch for most people: Apple Watch SE 3 The best Apple upgrade: Apple Watch Series 11 The best Android watch: Google Pixel Watch 4 The Budget Pick: Nothing CMF Watch 3 Pro The Dark Horse Pick: Apple Watch Ultra 2 The best budget fitness tracker: Fitbit Charge 6 The Best Samsung Smartwatch: Galaxy Watch 8 After a very busy fall, we finally have the new lineup of smartwatches from Apple, Samsung, and Google. And so whether you’re team…
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