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New AmbiHTMLBench benchmark evaluates HTML reconstruction for rich documents

Researchers have introduced AmbiHTMLBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate models on their ability to parse visually rich documents and reconstruct them into executable HTML. Unlike traditional systems that output Markdown, AmbiHTMLBench focuses on HTML to better preserve spatial structure, visual hierarchy, and rendering semantics. The benchmark includes 1,115 diverse pages with structured annotations and uses both objective metrics and human-aligned subjective evaluations to assess model performance. Initial tests on ten multimodal systems showed varying results between objective and subjective assessments, highlighting the need for task-specific adaptation, which was demonstrated by fine-tuning a small-parameter expert model. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could lead to more sophisticated AI systems for understanding and reconstructing complex visual documents.

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New AmbiHTMLBench benchmark evaluates HTML reconstruction for rich documents

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Boyu Niu, Yingjie Xiong, Shurui Li, Linhan Pang, Yuntong Zhang, Han Wang, Hao Wu, Kai Zuo, Xu Tang, Xuanhe Zhou, Fan Wu ·

    AmbiHTMLBench: A Benchmark for HTML-based Visually Rich Document parsing

    arXiv:2611.06449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional document parsing systems use Markdown as their output representation, which is effective for linear text but does not fully preserve fine-grained spatial structure, table geometry, visual hierarchy, or rendering semantic…