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DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow research paper by DeepSeek, 2026

DeepSeek · Jan 28, 2026 · Multimodal and robotics · 75 citations · 75 upvotes · unverified

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DeepSeek-OCR 2 introduces DeepEncoder V2 that dynamically reorders visual tokens based on semantic content, enabling more human-like causal reasoning in 2D image understanding through cascaded 1D causal structures.

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About this paper
Authors
Haoran Wei, Yaofeng Sun, Yukun Li
arXiv
2601.20552 · PDF
Venue
arXiv.org
Citations
75, 8 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
75 · Hugging Face
Code
github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2
Lab
DeepSeek · on Companies

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Influential citationsfirst count: 8Sep 25, 2026
Citationsfirst count: 75Sep 25, 2026
New paperFound by the weekly scan, unverifiedSep 25, 2026

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