Oracle bone script (OBS), one of the earliest Chinese writing systems, plays an important role in the study of Chinese etymology. Traditional decipherment relies heavily on domain experts who analyze...
arXiv:2608. 07917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chinese historical documents preserve valuable cultural heritage, but many collections remain accessible only as scanned page images, preventing full-text retrieval, collation, and computational analysis.
arXiv:2608. 07917v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chinese historical documents preserve valuable cultural heritage, but many collections remain accessible only as scanned page images, preventing full-text retrieval, collation, and computational analysis.
arXiv:2607. 00057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Oracle Bone Inscriptions (OBIs) recognition plays a crucial role in understanding ancient Chinese culture.
arXiv:2607. 03994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern language models generally represent text as sequences of discrete token embeddings, an assumption deeply rooted in current practice but rarely questioned.
arXiv:2609.37569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rendering accurate Chinese text remains challenging for text-to-image models. Existing OCR-based reinforcement-learning rewards compare decoded transcr...
arXiv:2606. 24984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning representations that remain robust across centuries of variation in handwriting is a key challenge in diachronic representation learning.
Ancient-Bench is a new benchmark for recognizing text on ancient Chinese artifacts, comprising 2,700 images that span 3,000 years of character evolution, nine artifact categories, and seven historical script forms. It introduces three annotation standards—symbol, character, and parsing standardization—to accommodate medium‑specific characteristics and enable consistent evaluation. Experiments show that current Vision‑Language Models and OCR specialists still struggle with variant characters, specialized symbols, and hallucination, indicating the task remains largely unsolved.
Rendering accurate Chinese text remains challenging for text-to-image models. Existing OCR-based reinforcement-learning rewards compare decoded transcripts with target strings. Such rewards overlook t...
arXiv:2601. 09566v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we study whether rendering Chinese characters as visual glyph images, rather than discrete token IDs as mainstream LLMs do, providing an inductive bias for character-level language modeling.
arXiv:2604.02103v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realistic online handwriting depends not only on individual character shapes, but also on how a writer connects, spaces, and aligns adjacent...
The paper introduces GraphemeNet, a unified multi‑script handwritten character recognition architecture that explicitly encodes script‑geometric regularities. It uses two orthogonal binary axes: Persistent Scaffold Injection (PSI) to embed stroke‑level geometry into each encoder stage, and a choice between gated global pooling or a Stroke Topology Module for spatial relational reasoning. Across fourteen benchmarks in eight writing systems, GraphemeNet achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance with fewer parameters, demonstrating the effectiveness of structural‑prior efficiency for multi‑script HCR.