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New benchmark VeriOCRBench tests MLLMs for OCR task verification

Researchers have introduced VeriOCRBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the task verification capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in optical character recognition (OCR) scenarios. This benchmark addresses the issue of "blind compliance" where models often assume tasks are valid, even when faced with illegible text, contradictory premises, or missing information. VeriOCRBench includes 1,800 samples with injected invalid tasks across various domains and verification dimensions, aiming to measure a model's ability to determine if a task is executable before attempting to answer. Evaluations of 15 leading MLLMs revealed significant reliability gaps, including persistent blind compliance and issues with over-refusal. AI

IMPACT Highlights a critical reliability gap in current OCR reasoning systems, potentially driving development of more robust and trustworthy MLLMs for document understanding.

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New benchmark VeriOCRBench tests MLLMs for OCR task verification

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yue Zhou, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang ·

    Beyond Blind Compliance: Benchmarking Task Verification in OCR Reasoning

    arXiv:2609.00232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on OCR-centric document understanding and text-rich visual reasoning benchmarks. Yet existing evaluations largely assume that every task is valid and answerab…