ASCIIBench: Evaluating Language-Model-Based Understanding of Visually-Oriented Text

arXiv:2512.04125 · cs.LG · Submitted 2025-12-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-12-02

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/ASCIIBench/ASCIIBench

Terminology

• Benchmark — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUC — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Training — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Modality Gap — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Multimodal Fusion — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Structural Integrity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4
• Large Language Models are few(1)-shot Table Reasoners
• ASCIIEval: Benchmarking Models' Visual Perception in Text Strings via ASCII Art

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