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Evidence Attribution in Visual Document Understanding without Coordinates or Region Labels
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers show that vision-language models can attribute document answers to evidence through text quotes instead of coordinate bounding boxes, reducing hallucination.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building document understanding systems should care when accuracy and explainability matter more than coordinate precision for production systems.
- Watch out
- The method relies on a layout parser to locate quoted regions, introducing a dependency that may fail on complex or poorly formatted documents.
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