Tracing the Evolution of Oracle Bone Characters Across Three Millennia

arXiv:2609.35674 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-10-01

Code: https://github.com/Fulcrum-XAI/MSEF-data

Project page: https://fulcrum-xai.github.io

Terminology

• Verification — 50× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 29× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 20× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Provenance — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 9× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Oracle Bone Inscription — 8× in this paper
• Latent Representation — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Manifold-based Script Evolution Framework — 7× in this paper
• Transformer — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Diffusion Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Representations — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Diffusion Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Normalizing Flow — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Temporal consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cascaded Bidirectional Evolutionary Decipherment — 2× in this paper
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Data Augmentation — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Latent Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Loss Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Normalizing Flows — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reconstruction Error — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Data Augmentation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• K and Average Precision — 1× in this paper
• Latent Dynamics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• OBI-Bench: Can LMMs Aid in Study of Ancient Script on Oracle Bones?
• PictOBI-20k: Unveiling Large Multimodal Models in Visual Decipherment for Pictographic Oracle Bone Characters
• Deciphering Oracle Bone Language with Diffusion Models
• OracleSage: Towards Unified Visual-Linguistic Understanding of Oracle Bone Scripts through Cross-Modal Knowledge Fusion
• DRIT++: Diverse Image-to-Image Translation via Disentangled Representations
• OracleAgent: A Multimodal Reasoning Agent for Oracle Bone Script Research
• Diff-Oracle: Deciphering Oracle Bone Scripts with Controllable Diffusion Model
• Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization
• Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers in Machine Learning
• An open dataset for the evolution of oracle bone characters: EVOBC

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