Balancing Reasoning and Hardware Constraints in RAG Pipelines for Ukrainian Multi-Domain Document Understanding

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arXiv:2609.22124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper describes the system submitted to the UNLP 2026 Shared Task on Multi-Domain Document Understanding. The challenge required extracting precise answers, document IDs, and page numbers from a diverse corpus of Ukrainian PDF documents within a strict 9-hour offline Kaggle execution limit. During evaluation on the hidden private test set, optical character recognition (OCR) of scanned documents emerged as a severe bottleneck, consuming 5-7 ho