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A Tiny Table Was Good Enough to Find the Right Table

Pixel compression first routes the question, then restores only relevant tables at native resolution.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-28-016
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Summary

Pixel compression first routes the question, then restores only relevant tables at native resolution.

On long documents, the two-step method used 41 percent fewer total tokens and gained seven accuracy points over one-step native-resolution QA. Heavy downscaling hurt direct reading but preserved enough signal for table selection in the reported benchmarks.

Why it matters

Pixel compression first routes the question, then restores only relevant tables at native resolution.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Pixel compression first routes the question, then restores only relevant tables at native resolution.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-28-018

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.26949arXiv · primary research

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