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SynthDocBench: Controlled Benchmark for Long-Context Visual Document Understanding research paper by ServiceNow, 2026

ServiceNow · Jul 11, 2026 · Agents and evaluation · 68 upvotes · unverified 2 months ago

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SynthDocBench is a synthetic long-context visual document benchmark that isolates failure modes in vision-language models, revealing sharp length degradation, positional sensitivity, and chart comprehension breakdowns.

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About this paper
Authors
Abhigya Verma, Khyati Mahajan, Amit Kumar Saha and 4 more
arXiv
2607.10400 · PDF
Citations
Not counted yet · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
68 · Hugging Face
Code
github.com/ServiceNow/SynthDocBench
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