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Do VLMs Read or Rewrite? On Transcription Faithfulness in Vision-Language Models
arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language
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VLMs, when used for document understanding, may rewrite imperfect text into a more plausible form rather than faithfully transcribing it, as revealed by a new multilingual perturbation benchmark.
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