Author name: Athos Georgiou

Hydra: Unifying Document Retrieval and Generation in a Single Vision-Language Model

Athos Georgiou / April 16, 2026

arXiv:2603.28554v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Visual document understanding typically requires separate retrieval and generation models, doubling memory and system complexity. We present Hydra, a dual-head approach that provides both ColBE…

cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.IR

Hydra: Unifying Document Retrieval and Generation in a Single Vision-Language Model

Athos Georgiou / March 31, 2026

arXiv:2603.28554v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual document understanding typically requires separate retrieval and generation models, doubling memory and system complexity. We present Hydra, a dual-head approach that provides both ColBERT-style l…