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Advances in the Visually-rich Document Understanding (VrDU) field and particularly the Key-Information Extraction (KIE) task are marked with the emergence of efficient Transformer-based approaches such as the LayoutLM models. Despite the good performance of KIE models when fine-tuned on public benchmarks, they still struggle to generalize on complex real-life use-cases lacking sufficient document annotations. Our research highlighted that KIE standard benchmarks such as SROIE and FUNSD contain significant similarity between training and testing documents and can be adjusted to better evaluate the generalization of models.
In this work, we designed experiments to quantify the information redundancy in public benchmarks, revealing a 75% template replication in SROIE’s official test set and 16% in FUNSD’s. We also proposed re-sampling strategies to provide benchmarks more representative of the generalization ability of models. We showed that models not suited for document analysis struggle on the adjusted splits dropping on average 10,5% F1 score on SROIE and 3.5% on FUNSD compared to multi-modal models dropping only 7,5% F1 on SROIE and 0.5% F1 on FUNSD.
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Laatiri, S., Ratnamogan, P., Tang, J., Lam, L., Vanhuffel, W., Caspani, F. (2023). Information Redundancy and Biases in Public Document Information Extraction Benchmarks. In: Fink, G.A., Jain, R., Kise, K., Zanibbi, R. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2023. ICDAR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41682-8_18
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