Evaluating OCR systems that convert PDFs or document images into Markdown is far more complex than it appears. Unlike plain text OCR, OCR-to-Markdown requires models to recover content, layout, reading order, and representation choices simultaneously. Today’s benchmarks attempt to score this with a mix of string matching, heuristic alignment, and format-specific rules—but in practice, these…
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# Introduction
As a machine learning practitioner, you know that feature engineering is painstaking, manual work. You need to create interaction terms between features, encode categorical variables properly, extract temporal patterns from dates, generate aggregations, and transform distributions. For each potential feature, you test whether it improves model performance, iterate…
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly becoming a primary source for information delivery across diverse use cases, so it’s important that their responses are factually accurate. In order to continue improving their performance on this industry-wide challenge, we have to better understand the types of use cases where models struggle to provide an accurate response…
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# Introduction
Learning AI today is not just about understanding machine learning models. It is about knowing how things fit together in practice, from math and fundamentals to building real applications, agents, and production systems. With so much content online, it is easy to feel lost or jump between…
AI presents an opportunity to build a more prosperous and secure world. The UK has already laid a strong foundation to seize this moment and is uniquely positioned to translate AI innovation into public benefit. That’s why we are excited to deepen our collaboration with the UK government to accelerate this work and offer a…
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# Introduction
As a data scientist, you're probably already familiar with libraries like NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, and Matplotlib. But the Python ecosystem is vast, and there are plenty of lesser-known libraries that can help you make your data science tasks easier.
In this article, we'll explore ten such libraries organized…
Today, we're announcing an expanded partnership with the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) through a new Memorandum of Understanding focused on foundational security and safety research, to help ensure artificial intelligence is developed safely and benefits everyone. The research partnership with AISI is an important part of our broader collaboration with the UK government on…
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Whether you accept it or not, agentic AI browsers are here to stay. They don’t just automate your web workflow; they help you with research, writing, understanding content, and much more.
An agentic browser uses autonomous AI agents that can navigate websites, fill forms, execute multi-step tasks, and…
Announcing a new, open suite of tools for language model interpretability Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of incredible feats of reasoning, yet their internal decision-making processes remain largely opaque. Should a system not behave as expected, a lack of visibility into its internal workings can make it difficult to pinpoint the exact reason for…
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OCR (Optical Character Recognition) models are gaining new recognition every day. I am seeing new open-source models pop up on Hugging Face that have crushed previous benchmarks, offering better, smarter, and smaller solutions.
Gone are the days when uploading a PDF meant getting plain text with lots…