DUBLIN: Visual Document Understanding By Language-Image Network (2023.emnlp-industry)
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Kriti Aggarwal, Aditi Khandelwal, Kumar Tanmay, Owais Khan Mohammed, Qiang Liu, Monojit Choudhury, Hardik Chauhan, Subhojit Som, Vishrav Chaudhary, Saurabh Tiwary
| Challenge: | DUBLIN is a pixel-based visual document understanding model that does not rely on OCR. |
| Approach: | They propose a pixel-based visual document understanding model that does not rely on OCR. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs on extractive tasks such as DocVQA, InfoVQA and AI2D, and strong performance on abstraction datasets such as VisualMRC and text captioning. |
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