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Thirty-One of Thirty-Five Pipelines Missed the Bar

Only four open document-extraction configurations cleared 0.5 F1 on a high-risk student-application task.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-20-018
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Summary

Only four open document-extraction configurations cleared 0.5 F1 on a high-risk student-application task.

Vision-language models generally led OCR-plus-LLM systems, yet about three quarters of all configurations scored below 0.25. Preserving document structure mattered independently of model size, warning against zero-shot deployment in consequential workflows.

Why it matters

Only four open document-extraction configurations cleared 0.5 F1 on a high-risk student-application task.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Only four open document-extraction configurations cleared 0.5 F1 on a high-risk student-application task.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-20-020

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.18289arXiv · primary research

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