arXiv AI

Barnamala: Parameter-Efficient Handwritten Devanagari Recognition at Benchmark Saturation

arXiv:2607. 13689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We built a compact convolutional network (1.

arXiv AI
Sep 7

Phase Transition Frequency as a Training Time Predictor of Test Accuracy in ResNets

The study investigates whether the number of discrete class‑separability jumps (phase transitions) observed during ResNet fine‑tuning can predict final test accuracy. Across 75 experiments on four benchmarks (CIFAR‑10, CIFAR‑100, TinyImageNet, CIFAR‑10‑C) and three ResNet variants, a strong negative correlation is found on standard i.i.d. datasets (r = −0.84 on CIFAR‑10, r = −0.87 on CIFAR‑100), while the correlation weakens under distributional stress. Additional analyses show that the transition count retains predictive power after controlling for architecture depth and outperforms other training‑curve signals on in‑distribution benchmarks, though it is dominated by other signals on stressed datasets.

By Arunan J
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Does a Modern-Handwriting Warm-Up Help Historical Arabic OCR? A Reproducible, Compute-Matched Evaluation on Muharaf and KHATT

arXiv:2608.22316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whether an intermediate stage of modern Arabic handwriting helps or hurts historical Arabic HTR is usually decided from one implementation and one co...

By Sumaih Almarshad, Maram Alamri, Dona Aloraini, Fares Altuwaim, AlJawharh AlOtaibi, Reem Alyabis, Rayah Aldawsari
arXiv AI
Aug 20

OmniHandwritingOCR: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal LLMs in Handwritten OCR Scenarios

OmniHandwritingOCR is a diagnostic benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and OCR systems on handwritten text and mathematical expression recognition. It comprises 77.57K labeled images across six subtasks and twelve subsets, including a difficulty‑stratified multi‑line formula corpus that tests robustness to increasing structural complexity. The benchmark reveals that current systems perform poorly on complex multi‑line formulas, exhibit variable rankings across languages and formula settings, and sometimes hallucinate corrections that are not visually supported.

By Zinuo Guo, Min Zhang, Bo Jiang
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

RefLAM: A Reference-Grounded Line Annotation Pipeline for Historical Arabic Manuscripts

RefLAM is a pipeline that converts manuscript page images and clean transcriptions into validated, line-level ground truth for Arabic handwritten text recognition. It combines a deep‑learning page‑segmentation model, a multimodal large language model for structured OCR, and a diacritic‑agnostic fuzzy alignment engine that assigns a confidence score to each line, with a provable correctness guarantee for perfect scores. Using RefLAM, the authors achieved a 75× speedup over manual annotation and released AraMS‑28k, a dataset of 14 historical Arabic manuscripts with detailed annotations.

By Mohamed Guechaoui, Mohamed Diaa Zellagui, Souleyman Chaib, Sahraoui Dhelim