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Do MLLMs Really Understand Low-Resource Khmer Documents? A Pilot Study on Khmer Document VQA
AI InsightThis pilot study is among the first to systematically evaluate open MLLMs on Khmer document VQA, using a KH-FUNSD subset covering invoices, receipts, and business forms with English and Khmer questions. Compared to prior evaluations focused on high-resource English documents, it reveals new challenges from complex scripts and mixed currency units in low-resource non-Latin documents.Key TakeawayEvaluation shifts from English high-resource documents to Khmer low-resource documents.Why It MattersLow-resource non-Latin documents are a blind spot for MLLM deployment; this pilot provides a first diagnostic baseline for measuring and improving generalization.Who's Affected- AI ResearchersGain an evaluation subset and diagnostic method for low-resource document VQA, reusable for other non-Latin languages.
- DevelopersWarned that MLLM accuracy may be insufficient in low-resource document scenarios, requiring targeted fine-tuning.
What's NextWatch whether this pilot expands into a full benchmark with public results and whether it drives improvements in Khmer OCR and document parsing.Importance 60/100