Leveraging External Knowledge for Historical Document Restoration via Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.21936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Historical documents act as invaluable knowledge archives but often suffer from illegibility due to physical deterioration and damage. While existing restoration methods based on masked language modeling effectively utilize local context, they struggle to restore named entities that require external historical knowledge. To address this limitation, we introduce a novel framework for historical document restoration that leverages large language models with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). By combining the implicit knowledge of pre-trained LLMs with explicitly retrieved external context, our model ARI effectively mitigates the challenge of inferring context-dependent proper nouns. Extensive experiments on Korean historical documents demons