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Baidu open-sources Unlimited OCR 2 for long document analysis

Baidu has released Unlimited OCR 2, a 3 billion parameter vision-language model capable of processing lengthy documents in a single request. This model utilizes SR-SWA sparse attention to maintain consistent decoding costs regardless of document length. The model's weights are available under an MIT license and it can be run on a single GPU. AI

IMPACT Enables efficient processing of long documents, potentially improving AI applications in document analysis and summarization.

RANK_REASON Open-source release of a vision-language model with novel attention mechanism. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Baidu open-sources Unlimited OCR 2 for long document analysis

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Baidu has open-sourced Unlimited OCR 2, a 3B vision-language model that parses hundred-page documents in a single request. Its SR-SWA sparse attention keeps dec

    Baidu has open-sourced Unlimited OCR 2, a 3B vision-language model that parses hundred-page documents in a single request. Its SR-SWA sparse attention keeps decoding cost almost flat as page counts grow. Weights are MIT licensed and it runs on a single GPU. https://www. marktechp…