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New PA-CDM metric improves handwritten math recognition evaluation

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Researchers have developed PA-CDM, a novel metric for evaluating handwritten mathematical expression recognition (HMER). Unlike existing methods that rely on exact matches or string similarity, PA-CDM incorporates position-aware scoring by coupling character detection matching with position-forest encoding and divergence-level weighting. This new metric, validated against human judgments and a frontier LLM judge, demonstrates a higher correlation with human perception of error quality in HMER tasks. AI

IMPACT This new metric could lead to more accurate and nuanced evaluation of AI models for mathematical expression recognition.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Shiliang Luo (East China Normal University) ·

    PA-CDM: Position-Aware Character Detection Matching for Evaluating Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition

    arXiv:2609.12917v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Handwritten mathematical expression recognition (HMER) is conventionally scored by exact-match rates and string-similarity metrics that are blind to where an error occurs: two predictions with identical token-error counts receive …

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