{ "name": "Multimodal Document Retrieval Baseline", "problem": "Business documents contain meaning in text, tables, layout, and imagery that text-only retrieval can miss.", "domain": "multimodal-ai", "architecture": "retrieval", "hugging_face_tasks": [ "visual-document-retrieval", "document-question-answering", "image-to-text", "feature-extraction" ], "recommended_stack": [ "FastAPI for ingestion and multimodal search", "Transformers with LayoutLMv3 or ColPali-style encoders", "OCR adapter plus image captioning", "PostgreSQL plus pgvector for fused embeddings", "Object storage for source documents", "OpenTelemetry plus retrieval ablation reports" ], "real_world_data_sources": [ { "name": "SEC EDGAR company facts API", "url": "https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000320193.json", "purpose": "Real tabular filing facts and document metadata" }, { "name": "arXiv API", "url": "https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:document%20understanding&start=0&max_results=5", "purpose": "Public papers and document-layout retrieval scenarios" } ], "job_description_skills": [ "Multimodal embeddings and document understanding", "OCR, layout, image, and text feature fusion", "Vector retrieval and modality-aware ranking", "Ablation testing and retrieval evaluation", "Scalable document ingestion and object storage" ], "impact_targets": [ "Improve Recall@5 by >= 20% over text-only retrieval", "Report modality ablations for OCR, layout, and image signals", "Index 100,000 documents with resumable ingestion", "Keep p95 retrieval latency below 500 ms" ], "baseline_evaluation": { "test_examples": 4, "accuracy": 1, "synthetic_evaluation": true }, "estimated_delivery": "8-12 weeks for one engineer", "generated_baseline_is_production_ready": false }