ReLayout: Towards Real-World Document Understanding via Layout-enhanced Pre-training (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent approaches for visually-rich document understanding use manually annotated semantic groups. |
| Approach: | They propose a new variant of the VrDU task that does not use manually annotated semantic groups. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on the existing methods while sacrificing performance. |
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