Using OCR Heads to Verbalize Image Semantics
arXiv:2609.18823v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How do VLMs map from pixels to semantics? To understand this general question, we focus on a narrow one: studying how VLMs perform optical character recognition (OCR). Across four models, we…
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AuthorSheridan Feucht, Benno Krojer, Sarah Wang, Henry Abrahamsen, Byron C. Wallace, David Bau