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Abstract - DocAtlas: Multilingual Document Understanding Across 80+ Languages
Multilingual document understanding remains limited for low-resource languages due to scarce training data and model-based annotation pipelines that perpetuate existing biases. We introduce DocAtlas, a framework that constructs high-fidelity OCR datasets and benchmarks covering 82 languages and 9 evaluation tasks. Our dual pipelines, differential rendering of native DOCX documents and synthetic LaTeX-based generation for right-to-left scripts produce precise structural annotations in a unified DocTag format encoding layout, text, and component types, without learned models for core annotation. Evaluating 16 state-of-the-art models reveals persistent gaps in low-resource scripts. We show that Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) using rendering-derived ground truth as positive signal achieves stable multilingual adaptation, improving both in-domain (+1.9%) and out-of-domain (+1.8%) accuracy without measurable base-language degradation, where supervised fine-tuning degrades out-of-domain performance by up to 21%. Our best variant, DocAtlas-DeepSeek, improves +1.7% over the strongest baseline.
DocAtlas:跨越80多种语言的多语言文档理解 /
DocAtlas: Multilingual Document Understanding Across 80+ Languages
1️⃣ 一句话总结
DocAtlas提出了一种无需依赖现有模型标注、通过差异化渲染和合成生成技术构建高质量多语言OCR数据集与基准的方法,覆盖82种语言和9个任务,并利用直接偏好优化(DPO)以渲染生成的真实标签作为正信号,实现了稳定的多语言适配,在领域内和领域外均提升了模型性能,避免了监督微调带来的严重性能下降。