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Multi-modal LLMs evaluated for document fraud detection capabilities

A new study published on arXiv explores the capabilities of various multi-modal large language models (LLMs) in detecting document manipulation. Researchers benchmarked models such as OpenAI's O1 and 4o, Gemini Flash, Deepseek Janus, Grok, Llama 3.2 and 4, Qwen 2 and 2.5 VL, Mistral Pixtral, and Claude 3.5 and 3.7 Sonnet. The findings indicate that advanced multi-modal LLMs show strong zero-shot generalization for fraud detection, outperforming traditional methods on unseen data, while some vision-focused LLMs performed inconsistently. The study also noted that model size and reasoning ability did not strongly correlate with accuracy, highlighting the importance of task-specific fine-tuning. AI

IMPACT Highlights the potential for LLMs to enhance document security and fraud detection systems.

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Multi-modal LLMs evaluated for document fraud detection capabilities

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 Română(RO) · Zisheng Liang, Kidus Zewde, Rudra Pratap Singh, Disha Patil, Zexi Chen, Jiayu Xue, Yao Yao, Yifei Chen, Qinzhe Liu, Simiao Ren ·

    Can Multi-modal (reasoning) LLMs detect document manipulation?

    arXiv:2508.11021v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Document fraud poses a significant threat to industries reliant on secure and verifiable documentation, necessitating robust detection mechanisms. This study investigates the efficacy of state-of-the-art multi-modal large …