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SAGE: From Direct Answering to Evidence-Grounded Inference for Chinese Ancient Document Understanding

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Chinese ancient document understanding demands complex visual, linguistic, and historical reasoning. Current Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) typically rely on an opaque, single-pass generation paradigm, often producing overconfident and weakly grounded responses. To address this, we propose SAGE, an evidence-grounded multi-agent framework that reformulates Chinese ancient document understanding as evidence-grounded inference rather than direct answer generation. SAGE coordinates specialized agents for task-aware planning, tool-mediated evidence acquisition, claim-level verification, and b

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