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| license: cc-by-sa-4.0 |
| language: |
| - ar |
| - en |
| task_categories: |
| - visual-question-answering |
| - document-question-answering |
| - image-to-text |
| pretty_name: RasmBench |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| tags: |
| - arabic |
| - charts |
| - tables |
| - document-understanding |
| - counterfactual |
| configs: |
| - config_name: documents |
| default: true |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/documents/test-*.parquet |
| - config_name: paired_rerenders |
| data_files: |
| - split: factual_values |
| path: data/paired_rerenders/factual_values-*.parquet |
| - split: counterfactual_values |
| path: data/paired_rerenders/counterfactual_values-*.parquet |
| - config_name: figure_as_text |
| data_files: |
| - split: image_table |
| path: data/figure_as_text/image_table-*.parquet |
| - split: image_table_control |
| path: data/figure_as_text/image_table_control-*.parquet |
| - split: table_only |
| path: data/figure_as_text/table_only-*.parquet |
| - split: own_table |
| path: data/figure_as_text/own_table-*.parquet |
| - config_name: translation |
| data_files: |
| - split: ar_doc_ar_q |
| path: data/translation/ar_doc_ar_q-*.parquet |
| - split: ar_doc_en_q |
| path: data/translation/ar_doc_en_q-*.parquet |
| - split: en_doc_ar_q |
| path: data/translation/en_doc_ar_q-*.parquet |
| - split: en_doc_en_q |
| path: data/translation/en_doc_en_q-*.parquet |
| - config_name: chart_to_table |
| data_files: |
| - split: selection |
| path: data/chart_to_table/selection-*.parquet |
| - split: pairs |
| path: data/chart_to_table/pairs-*.parquet |
| - split: tiers |
| path: data/chart_to_table/tiers-*.parquet |
| - config_name: model_outputs |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/model_outputs/test.parquet |
| - config_name: second_judge |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/second_judge/test.parquet |
| --- |
| |
| # RasmBench |
|
|
| 1,002 rendered Arabic documents with charts and tables, each with six questions (one per Bloom level) in multiple-choice and open-ended form: 6,012 items per format. Documents are built from Arabic Wikipedia tables in three value regimes (334 each) and five degradation tiers (A born-digital, B print scan, C complex-layout scan, D camera capture, E historical print). |
|
|
| - **factual**: the real values. |
| - **counterfactual**: every number perturbed, with totals, percentages and year order restored. Labels stay real. |
| - **neutral**: placeholder labels and random values. |
|
|
| > **Counterfactual items contain deliberately false statistics about real entities** (`values_altered = true`). Do not use them as factual data or train on them as real data. |
| |
| ## Configurations |
| |
| | Config | Splits (rows) | Contents | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `documents` (default) | `test` (1,002) | The benchmark: page image, undegraded image, six questions | |
| | `paired_rerenders` | `factual_values`, `counterfactual_values` (668 each) | Each factual/counterfactual document drawn with both value sets, questions re-keyed | |
| | `figure_as_text` | `image_table` (100), `image_table_control` (50), `table_only` (100), `own_table` (230) | Figure data as a markdown table: with the image, without it, or as the model's own transcription | |
| | `translation` | `ar_doc_ar_q`, `ar_doc_en_q`, `en_doc_ar_q`, `en_doc_en_q` (98 each) | Arabic/English document × Arabic/English question | |
| | `chart_to_table` | `selection` (46), `pairs` (97), `tiers` (245) | Transcribe the figure; the reference is what the chart draws | |
| | `model_outputs` | `test` (201,593) | Every model answer in every condition, with judge scores | |
| | `second_judge` | `test` (4,252) | mistral-medium-3 as a second judge on 598 sampled questions | |
|
|
| Diagnostic conditions use 100 selected documents (the 50 easiest and 50 hardest across ten models) and 50 random control documents, listed in `metadata/` and in the `selection` column. Full page annotations are in `annotations/` (re-rendered variants also carry theirs in an `annotation` column). |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| docs = load_dataset("rasmbench/rasmbench_revised", split="test") |
| outputs = load_dataset("rasmbench/rasmbench_revised", "model_outputs", split="test") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Notes |
|
|
| - **Key on `uid`** (`<regime>/<doc_id>`), not `doc_id`: 21 `doc_id`s occur in more than one regime. In variant configs `uid` starts with the condition name, and `source_uid` points to the released document. |
| - **Drop `distractor_pool` before prompting**; it leaks the answer space. |
| - The open-ended reference answer is `options[answer_index]`. |
| - `tier` is the degradation applied. `template_nominal_tier` is the template's design tier and differs on 168 documents. |
| - `model_outputs`: `condition` is `original` or the variant name, and `document_uid` joins to the variant's `uid`. Unparsed MCQ answers have a null `predicted_index` and count as wrong. Original open-ended answers were judged by gemini-3.5-flash and later ones by gemini-3.8-flash, so compare scores within one `judge_model`. |
| |
| ## Prompts |
| |
| MCQ, with options as `A) …` to `D) …`: |
| |
| ``` |
| اقرأ الوثيقة في الصورة وأجب عن السؤال التالي. |
| |
| {question} |
| |
| {options} |
| |
| أجب بحرف الخيار الصحيح فقط (A أو B أو C أو D). |
| ``` |
| |
| Open-ended: |
| |
| ``` |
| اقرأ الوثيقة في الصورة وأجب عن السؤال التالي بإيجاز. |
| |
| {question} |
| ``` |
| |
| Greedy decoding with at most 128 new tokens for MCQ, 256 for open-ended answers and 1,024 for chart-to-table transcription. The judge rubric and chart-to-table prompts are in the paper's appendix. |
| |
| ## Limitations |
| |
| - Questions were written by gemini-2.5-flash-lite and open-ended answers judged by Gemini, which may favour Gemini-like models. |
| - Re-rendered questions were re-keyed automatically; between 1 and 3 of 50 hand-checked were wrong. |
| - English documents are machine translations. 2 of the 100 selected failed to translate (`metadata/translation_failed.json`), and Qwen3.6-27B, gemma-4-31B, Qwen3-VL-4B and Qwen3.5-9B answered 76 of the 98. |
| - Tiers were not assigned at random, so tier comparisons are observational. |
| - The rendering engine is not part of this release. |
| |
| ## Licence |
| |
| CC BY-SA 4.0, derived from Arabic Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Credit Arabic Wikipedia and this dataset, and keep the licence. Questions, translations and judge scores were generated with Gemini models and answers with the listed models, so their providers' terms may also apply. |
| |
| ## Citation |
| |
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{rasmbench, |
| title = {RasmBench: Reading, Not Reasoning, Limits Vision-Language Models on Arabic Charts and Tables}, |
| author = {Anonymous}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| note = {Under review} |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
