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LayoutXLM: Multimodal Pre-training for Multilingual Visually-rich Document Understanding
Yiheng Xu, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, Guoxin Wang, Yijuan Lu, Dinei Florencio, Cha Zhang, Furu Wei
Multimodal pre-training with text, layout, and image has achieved SOTA performance for visually-rich document understanding tasks recently, which demonstrates the great potential for joint learning across different modalities. In this paper, we present LayoutXLM, a multimodal pre-trained model for multilingual document understanding, which aims to bridge the language barriers for visually-rich document understanding. To accurately evaluate LayoutXLM, we also introduce a multilingual form understanding benchmark dataset named XFUND, which includes form understanding samples in 7 languages (Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese), and key-value pairs are manually labeled for each language. Experiment results show that the LayoutXLM model has significantly outperformed the existing SOTA cross-lingual pre-trained models on the XFUND dataset. The pre-trained LayoutXLM model and the XFUND dataset are publicly available at https://aka.ms/layoutxlm.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
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| Document Image Classification | RVL-CDIP | LayoutXLM | Accuracy | 95.21% | #13 of 31 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Key-value Pair Extraction | RFUND-EN | LayoutXLM_base | key-value pair F1 | 53.98 | #9 of 13 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Key-value Pair Extraction | SIBR | LayoutXLM | key-value pair F1 | 70.45 | #6 of 7 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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