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Study finds visual understanding limits VLM performance on complex documents

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A new study evaluates eight open-source Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) across industrial documents, infographics, and presentation slides. The research found that while VLMs perform well on structured layouts, their effectiveness diminishes on visually complex infographics and slides. The study also indicates that visual understanding, rather than a lack of knowledge, is the primary limitation for DocVQA performance. Fine-tuning with even a small number of domain-specific samples significantly improves model adaptation. AI

IMPACT This research highlights the need for improved visual understanding capabilities in VLMs for complex document analysis, potentially guiding future model development.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Miguel Lopez-Duran, Elena Marrero, Julian Fierrez, Marta Robledo-Moreno, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Ruben Tolosana, Oscar Delgado, Alvaro Ortigosa, Javier Ortega-Garcia ·

    Comparative Study of Domain-adapted VLMs for General Document Visual Question Answering

    arXiv:2607.07179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring models to exploit visual, textual, and layout information from documents. Although Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable …

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Javier Ortega-Garcia ·

    Comparative Study of Domain-adapted VLMs for General Document Visual Question Answering

    Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring models to exploit visual, textual, and layout information from documents. Although Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance in text-vision tasks, their robustness…

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