AmazonScience/document-haystack
Document Haystack Dataset This repository contains the dataset for the paper “Document Haystack: A Long Context Multimodal Image/Document Understanding Vision LLM Benchmark”. 📑 Abstract Paper The proliferation of multimodal Large Language Models has significantly advanced the ability to analyze and understand complex data inputs from different modalities. However, the processing of long documents remains under-explored, largely due to a lack of suitable… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/AmazonScience/document-haystack.
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