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Multilingual OCR-Aware Fine-Tuning and Prompt-Guided Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models

Qinwu Xu, Yifan Jiang, Haoyu Ren · May 13, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

Optical character recognition (OCR) and multilingual scene-text understanding remain challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing small or degraded text, cluttered layouts, occlusion, handwriting, and complex typography. We present an OCR-aware multilingual post-training framework that improves visual-text grounding in a general-purpose MLLM without requiring an external OCR engine, OCR-extracted text, or text bounding boxes at inference time. The framework combines large-scale multilingual OCR supervision, approximately 5M additional multilingual training samples, controlled synthetic OCR generation and in-image text translation, LoRA-based supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and lightweight OCR-oriented Chain-of-Thought prompting. On a held-out real-world multilingual OCR benchmark, OCR-SFT improves OCR completeness from 71.3 to 84.6, reduces hallucination rate from 18.3\% to 5.5\%, and improves translation BLEU-1 from 52.3 to 80.2, with substantial hallucination reductions under blur and rotation. Evaluation on public benchmarks further shows gains on OCR-intensive tasks while largely preserving broader multimodal capabilities; ablations show that SFT provides the primary improvement, with prompting offering smaller complementary gains. These results demonstrate that data-centric OCR-aware post-training provides a practical and scalable approach to improving multilingual visual-text grounding in general-purpose MLLMs.

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Use if you need

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Main weakness

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Usefulness score

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Human Feedback Signal

Not explicit in abstract metadata

Evaluation Signal

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Adjacent candidate

Extraction confidence 35%

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What We Could Verify

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Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Optical character recognition (OCR) and multilingual scene-text understanding remain challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing small or degraded text, cluttered layouts, occlusion, handwriting, and complex typography."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Optical character recognition (OCR) and multilingual scene-text understanding remain challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing small or degraded text, cluttered layouts, occlusion, handwriting, and complex typography."

Quality Controls

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No explicit QC controls found.

"Optical character recognition (OCR) and multilingual scene-text understanding remain challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing small or degraded text, cluttered layouts, occlusion, handwriting, and complex typography."

Benchmarks / Datasets

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"Optical character recognition (OCR) and multilingual scene-text understanding remain challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing small or degraded text, cluttered layouts, occlusion, handwriting, and complex typography."

Reported Metrics

partial

Bleu, Hallucination rate

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"On a held-out real-world multilingual OCR benchmark, OCR-SFT improves OCR completeness from 71.3 to 84.6, reduces hallucination rate from 18.3\% to 5.5\%, and improves translation BLEU-1 from 52.3 to 80.2, with substantial hallucination reductions under blur and rotation."

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: No
  • Feedback types: None
  • Rater population: Not reported
  • Expertise required: Multilingual

Evaluation Details

  • Evaluation modes: Automatic Metrics
  • Agentic eval: None
  • Quality controls: Not reported
  • Evidence quality: Low
  • Use this page as: Background context only

Protocol And Measurement Signals

Benchmarks / Datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported Metrics

bleuhallucination rate

Research Brief

Metadata summary

Optical character recognition (OCR) and multilingual scene-text understanding remain challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing small or degraded text, cluttered layouts, occlusion, handwriting, and complex typography.

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Key Takeaways

  • Optical character recognition (OCR) and multilingual scene-text understanding remain challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing small or degraded text, cluttered layouts, occlusion, handwriting, and complex typography.
  • We present an OCR-aware multilingual post-training framework that improves visual-text grounding in a general-purpose MLLM without requiring an external OCR engine, OCR-extracted text, or text bounding boxes at inference time.
  • The framework combines large-scale multilingual OCR supervision, approximately 5M additional multilingual training samples, controlled synthetic OCR generation and in-image text translation, LoRA-based supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and lightweight OCR-oriented Chain-of-Thought prompting.

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • We present an OCR-aware multilingual post-training framework that improves visual-text grounding in a general-purpose MLLM without requiring an external OCR engine, OCR-extracted text, or text bounding boxes at inference time.
  • On a held-out real-world multilingual OCR benchmark, OCR-SFT improves OCR completeness from 71.3 to 84.6, reduces hallucination rate from 18.3\% to 5.5\%, and improves translation BLEU-1 from 52.3 to 80.2, with substantial hallucination…
  • Evaluation on public benchmarks further shows gains on OCR-intensive tasks while largely preserving broader multimodal capabilities; ablations show that SFT provides the primary improvement, with prompting offering smaller complementary…

Why It Matters For Eval

  • On a held-out real-world multilingual OCR benchmark, OCR-SFT improves OCR completeness from 71.3 to 84.6, reduces hallucination rate from 18.3\% to 5.5\%, and improves translation BLEU-1 from 52.3 to 80.2, with substantial hallucination…
  • Evaluation on public benchmarks further shows gains on OCR-intensive tasks while largely preserving broader multimodal capabilities; ablations show that SFT provides the primary improvement, with prompting offering smaller complementary…

Researcher Checklist

  • Gap: Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Pass: Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Gap: Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Gap: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Pass: Metric reporting is present

    Detected: bleu, hallucination rate

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