We usually train VLMs on visual synthetic data that we (as humans) label as photorealistic. We argue that this is an anthropocentric perspective imposed to a model that might not synthetize visual information as we do. VERSE helps to visualize latent space and overlay visual features to detect poor-performance regions and take action to include better-suited training sets to boost model performance.
The MERIT Dataset is a fully synthetic, labeled dataset created for training and benchmarking LLMs on Visually Rich Document Understanding tasks. It is also designed to help detect biases and improve interpretability in LLMs, where we are actively working. 🔧🔨
MERIT contains synthetically rendered students' transcripts of records from different schools in English and Spanish. We plan to expand the dataset into different contexts (synth medical/insurance documents, synth IDS, etc.) Want to collaborate? Do you have any feedback? 🧐
PD: We are grateful to Hugging Face 🤗 for providing the fantastic tools and resources we find in the platform and, more specifically, to @nielsr for sharing the fine-tuning/inference scripts we have used in our benchmark.