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New Benchmark Reveals Multimodal LLMs Fail on Bengali Legal Land Records

A new benchmark called KhatianDoc has been developed to assess the capabilities of multimodal large language models (LLMs) in understanding Bengali legal land records. The benchmark, built from 107 real land records in Bangladesh, includes tasks such as symbol recognition, base-16 to decimal conversion, structured field extraction, and question answering. Evaluations of six LLMs revealed significant failures, with models unable to correctly answer nearly 40% of questions and performing worse than a baseline on arithmetic tasks involving land ownership fractions. AI

IMPACT Highlights critical gaps in multimodal LLM understanding of specialized, non-Latin script data, indicating a need for domain-specific training and evaluation.

RANK_REASON Academic paper introducing a new benchmark for evaluating LLM capabilities on a specific domain. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New Benchmark Reveals Multimodal LLMs Fail on Bengali Legal Land Records

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Tasmiad Hasan, Arafat Zaman Ratul, Sarker Sadman Saalim, S. M. Shah Nawaz Hossain, Khan Raiyan Ibne Reza, Sumaiya Tabassum Nimi ·

    KhatianDoc: A Human-Verified Benchmark Diagnosing Multimodal LLM Failure on Bengali Legal Land Records

    arXiv:2609.03597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Land ownership in Bangladesh is recorded in Ana-Ganda-Kora-Kranti-Til, a base-16 positional fraction system with dedicated Unicode glyphs, no mainstream font, and no coverage in any OCR pipeline or tokenizer. The handwritten records…