Consensus Entropy: Harnessing Multi-VLM Agreement for Self-Verifying and Self-Improving OCR

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11101v2
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:22:14 GMT
• Title: Consensus Entropy: Harnessing Multi-VLM Agreement for Self-Verifying and Self-Improving OCR
• Authors: Yulong Zhang, Tianyi Liang, Xinyue Huang, Erfei Cui, Xu Guo, Pei Chu, Chenhui Li, Ru Zhang, Wenhai Wang, Gongshen Liu,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Consensus Entropy (CE), a training-free post-inference method that quantifies OCR uncertainty.<n>We develop a lightweight multi-model framework that effectively identifies problematic samples, selects the best outputs and combines model strengths.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) task is important for evaluating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and providing high-quality data sources for LLM training data. While state-of-the-art VLMs show improved average OCR accuracy, they still struggle with sample-level quality degradation and lack reliable automatic detection of low-quality outputs. We introduce Consensus Entropy (CE), a training-free post-inference method that quantifies OCR uncertainty by aggregating outputs from multiple VLMs. Our approach exploits a key insight: correct VLM OCR predictions converge in output space while errors diverge. We develop a lightweight multi-model framework that effectively identifies problematic samples, selects the best outputs and combines model strengths. Experiments across multiple OCR benchmarks and VLMs demonstrate that CE outperforms VLM-as-judge approaches and single-model baselines at the same cost and achieves state-of-the-art results across multiple metrics. For instance, our solution demonstrates: achieving 15.2% higher F1 scores than VLM-as-judge methods in quality verification, delivering 6.0% accuracy gains on mathematical calculation tasks, and requiring rephrasing only 7.3% of inputs while maintaining overall performance. Notably, the entire process requires neither training nor supervision while maintaining plug-and-play functionality throughout.

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