Benchmarks and evaluation

Leaderboards, eval harnesses and ablations — the contested business of deciding which model is actually better.

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arXiv AI
Jul 21

DocOCR-Eval: A Correction-Based Framework for OCR Tool Selection Without Ground Truth

arXiv:2607. 16203v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document parsing is a foundational step for document understanding tasks such as visual question answering and key information extraction, as it transforms unstructured scanned images into structured representations by extracting textual, visual, and layout information.

By Zihan Xu, Puzhen Wu, Lawrence Chun Man Lau, Wei Liu, Sirui Li, Yifan Peng, Yihao Ding
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Agent psychometrics: Task-level performance prediction in agentic coding benchmarks

arXiv:2604. 00594v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As the focus in LLM-based coding shifts from static single-step code generation to multi-step agentic interaction with tools and environments, understanding which tasks will challenge agents and why becomes increasingly difficult.

By Chris Ge, Daria Kryvosheieva, Daniel Fried, Uzay Girit, Kaivalya Hariharan
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Simple Domain Generalization for Strong Pixel-Level Image Tampering Detection in Modern VLMs

arXiv:2607. 18230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern vision-language models (VLMs) have significantly improved image generation and editing capabilities, making pixel-level image tampering detection increasingly important yet challenging under cross-model and out-of-distribution shifts.

By Yi Tang, Xinyi Shang, Jiacheng Cui, Sondos Mahmoud Bsharat, Jiacheng Liu, Xiaohan Zhao, Tran Dinh Tien, Ahmed Elhagry, Salwa K. Al Khatib, Tianjun Yao, Yonina C. Eldar, Jing-Hao Xue, Hao Li, Salman Khan, Zhiqiang Shen
arXiv AI
Jul 21

DSBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating External and In-Cabin Risks

arXiv:2511. 14592v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show great promise for autonomous driving, but their suitability for safety-critical scenarios is largely unexplored, raising safety concerns.

By Xianhui Meng, Yuchen Zhang, Zhijian Huang, Zheng Lu, Ziling Ji, Yandan Lin, Yaoyao Yin, Hongyuan Zhang, Wei Zhou, Guangfeng Jiang, Li Zhang, Long Chen, Hangjun Ye, Jun Liu, Xiaoshuai Hao