English
Related papers

Related papers: VAREX: A Benchmark for Multi-Modal Structured Extr…

200 papers

We present an end-to-end, multimodal, fully convolutional network for extracting semantic structures from document images. We consider document semantic structure extraction as a pixel-wise segmentation task, and propose a unified model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Xiao Yang , Ersin Yumer , Paul Asente , Mike Kraley , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

Multimodal documents contain diverse elements, such as tables, figures, and layouts, which can complicate retrieval tasks. While current approaches typically combine dense visual embedding models with supervised rerankers to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ruofan Hu , Menghui Zhu , Jieming Zhu , Bo Chen , Shengyang Xu , Minjie Hong , Xiaoda Yang , Sashuai Zhou , Li Tang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

We introduce MRMR, the first expert-level multidisciplinary multimodal retrieval benchmark requiring intensive reasoning. MRMR contains 1,502 queries spanning 23 domains, with positive documents carefully verified by human experts. Compared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Siyue Zhang , Yuan Gao , Xiao Zhou , Yilun Zhao , Tingyu Song , Arman Cohan , Anh Tuan Luu , Chen Zhao

Recent advances in visual language models (VLMs) have transformed end-to-end document understanding. However, their ability to interpret the complex layout semantics of historical scholarly texts remains limited. This paper investigates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Nicolas Angleraud , Antonia Karamolegkou , Benoît Sagot , Thibault Clérice

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance in Visually Rich Document Understanding (VRDU) tasks, but their capabilities are mainly evaluated on pristine, well-structured document images. We consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zichun Guo , Yuling Shi , Wenhao Zeng , Chao Hu , Haotian Lin , Terry Yue Zhuo , Jiawei Chen , Xiaodong Gu , Wenping Ma

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text comprehension, but their ability to process complex, hierarchical tabular data remains underexplored. We present a novel approach to extracting structured data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Vikram Aggarwal , Jay Kulkarni , Aditi Mascarenhas , Aakriti Narang , Siddarth Raman , Ajay Shah , Susan Thomas

Printed mathematical expression recognition (MER) models are usually trained and tested using LaTeX-generated mathematical expressions (MEs) as input and the LaTeX source code as ground truth. As the same ME can be generated by various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Felix M. Schmitt-Koopmann , Elaine M. Huang , Hans-Peter Hutter , Thilo Stadelmann , Alireza Darvishy

Improving data quality in unstructured documents is a long-standing challenge. Unstructured data, especially in textual form, inherently lacks defined semantics, which poses significant challenges for effective processing and for ensuring…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Besat Kassaie , Frank Wm. Tompa

In this paper, we consider the task of retrieving documents with predefined topics from an unlabeled document dataset using an unsupervised approach. The proposed unsupervised approach requires only a small number of keywords describing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Tim Schopf , Daniel Braun , Florian Matthes

Background: Keyword extraction is a popular research topic in the field of natural language processing. Keywords are terms that describe the most relevant information in a document. The main problem that researchers are facing is how to…

This study explores three approaches to processing table data in scientific papers to enhance extractive question answering and develop a software tool for the systematic review process. The methods evaluated include: (1) Optical Character…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dongyoun Kim , Hyung-do Choi , Youngsun Jang , John Kim

The vector autoregression (VAR) has long proven to be an effective method for modeling the joint dynamics of macroeconomic time series as well as forecasting. A major shortcoming of the VAR that has hindered its applicability is its heavy…

Applications · Statistics 2017-02-28 William Nicholson , David Matteson , Jacob Bien

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for data extraction from documents is essential to intelligent informatics, such as digitizing medical records and recognizing road signs. Multi-modal Large Language Models (LLMs) can solve this task and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hyakka Nakada , Yoshiyasu Tanaka

Transformers achieve promising performance in document understanding because of their high effectiveness and still suffer from quadratic computational complexity dependency on the sequence length. General efficient transformers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Mingliang Zhai , Yulin Li , Xiameng Qin , Chen Yi , Qunyi Xie , Chengquan Zhang , Kun Yao , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Document Key Information Extraction (KIE) is a technology that transforms valuable information in document images into structured data, and it has become an essential function in industrial settings. However, current evaluation metrics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Minsoo Khang , Sang Chul Jung , Sungrae Park , Teakgyu Hong

Effectiveness and interpretability are two essential properties for trustworthy AI systems. Most recent studies in visual reasoning are dedicated to improving the accuracy of predicted answers, and less attention is paid to explaining the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Shi Chen , Qi Zhao

Existing benchmarks for systematic reviewing remain limited either in scale or in disciplinary coverage, with some collections comprising only a modest number of topics and others focusing primarily on biomedical research. We present…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Pierre Achkar , Tim Gollub , Arno Simons , Harrisen Scells , Martin Potthast

Advances in the Visually-rich Document Understanding (VrDU) field and particularly the Key-Information Extraction (KIE) task are marked with the emergence of efficient Transformer-based approaches such as the LayoutLM models. Despite the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Seif Laatiri , Pirashanth Ratnamogan , Joel Tang , Laurent Lam , William Vanhuffel , Fabien Caspani

Despite the rapid progress of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), their capabilities are inadequately assessed by existing benchmarks, which are predominantly English-centric, feature simplistic layouts, and support limited tasks. Consequently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ketong Chen , Yuhao Chen , Yang Xue

A large amount of document data exists in unstructured form such as raw images without any text information. Designing a practical document image analysis system is a meaningful but challenging task. In previous work, we proposed an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Chenxia Li , Ruoyu Guo , Jun Zhou , Mengtao An , Yuning Du , Lingfeng Zhu , Yi Liu , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu