VDE Bench (Global) - CDM: leaderboard

Metric: Character distance metric, 1 minus normalized Levenshtein distance between the OCR text and the gold text over matched blocks (0-1, shown times 100), over the full page, every edited region counted; VDE Bench's 942 human-verified instruction-based edits of dense Chinese and English document pages (papers, slides, posters, exams, newspapers; text replacement, insertion and deletion and table edits; gold edited pages verified by 15 annotators); the edited page is read with PaddleOCR-VL and compared with the gold page, default generation settings; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 6 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen-Image-Edit (VDE Bench checkpoint unspecified)88.1
2FireRed-Image-Edit-1.085.8
3Step1X-Edit (VDE Bench checkpoint unspecified)84.6
4LongCat-Image-Edit83.8
5InstructPix2Pix21.8
6ICEdit15.8

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