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Poster

BigDocs: An Open Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks

Juan A. Rodriguez · Xiangru Jian · Siba Smarak Panigrahi · Tianyu Zhang · Aarash Feizi · Abhay Puri · Akshay Suresh · François Savard · Ahmed Masry · Shravan Nayak · Rabiul Awal · Mahsa Massoud · Amirhossein Abaskohi · Zichao Li · Suyuchen Wang · Pierre-André Noël · Mats L. Richter · Saverio Vadacchino · Shubham Agarwal · Sanket Biswas · Sara Shanian · Ying Zhang · Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan · Joao Monteiro · Krishnamurthy Dvijotham · Torsten Scholak · Nicolas Chapados · Sepideh Kharaghani · Sean Hughes · M. Tamer Özsu · Siva Reddy · Marco Pedersoli · Yoshua Bengio · Christopher Pal · Issam Laradji · Spandana Gella · Perouz Taslakian · David Vazquez · Sai Rajeswar

Hall 3 + Hall 2B #280
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Wed 23 Apr 7 p.m. PDT — 9:30 p.m. PDT

Abstract:

Multimodal AI has the potential to significantly enhance document-understanding tasks, such as processing receipts, understanding workflows, extracting data from documents, and summarizing reports. Code generation tasks that require long-structured outputs can also be enhanced by multimodality. Despite this, their use in commercial applications is often limited due to limited access to relevant training data and restrictive licensing, which hinders open access. To address these limitations, we introduce BigDocs-7.5M, a high-quality, open-access dataset comprising 7.5 million multimodal documents across 30 tasks. We use an efficient data curation process to ensure that our data is high quality and license-permissive. Our process emphasizes accountability, responsibility, and transparency through filtering rules, traceable metadata, and careful content analysis. Additionally, we introduce BigDocs-Bench,, a benchmark suite with 10 novel tasks where we carefully create datasets that reflect real-world use cases involving reasoning over Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) and code generation from images. Our experiments show that training with BigDocs-Bench, improves average performance up to 25.8% over closed-source GPT-4o in document reasoning and structured output tasks such as Screenshot2HTML or Image2Latex generation. Finally, human evaluations revealed that participants preferred the outputs from models trained with BigDocs over those from GPT-4o. This suggests that BigDocs can help both academics and the open-source community utilize and improve AI tools to enhance multimodal capabilities and document reasoning.

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