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PromptDLA: A Domain-aware Prompt Document Layout Analysis Framework with Descriptive Knowledge as a Cue

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Key Points

  • Document Layout Analysis (DLA) is essential for document AI, and new large-scale public DLA datasets have recently gained attention.
  • Existing methods that merge datasets from various domains often underperform due to ignoring domain-specific layout differences such as labeling styles, document types, and languages.
  • PromptDLA is a novel domain-aware framework that uses descriptive knowledge as prompts to incorporate domain priors, effectively guiding DLA models to focus on domain-specific features.
  • The proposed approach improves generalization across multiple domains and achieves state-of-the-art performance on popular DLA benchmarks including DocLayNet, PubLayNet, M6Doc, and D$^4$LA.
  • The code for PromptDLA is publicly available, enabling further research and practical use in diverse document layout tasks.

Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

arXiv:2603.09414 (cs)
[Submitted on 10 Mar 2026]

Title:PromptDLA: A Domain-aware Prompt Document Layout Analysis Framework with Descriptive Knowledge as a Cue

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Abstract:Document Layout Analysis (DLA) is crucial for document artificial intelligence and has recently received increasing attention, resulting in an influx of large-scale public DLA datasets. Existing work often combines data from various domains in recent public DLA datasets to improve the generalization of DLA. However, directly merging these datasets for training often results in suboptimal model performance, as it overlooks the different layout structures inherent to various domains. These variations include different labeling styles, document types, and languages. This paper introduces PromptDLA, a domain-aware Prompter for Document Layout Analysis that effectively leverages descriptive knowledge as cues to integrate domain priors into DLA. The innovative PromptDLA features a unique domain-aware prompter that customizes prompts based on the specific attributes of the data domain. These prompts then serve as cues that direct the DLA toward critical features and structures within the data, enhancing the model's ability to generalize across varied domains. Extensive experiments show that our proposal achieves state-of-the-art performance among DocLayNet, PubLayNet, M6Doc, and D$^4$LA. Our code is available at this https URL.
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Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.09414 [cs.CV]
  (or arXiv:2603.09414v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.09414
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From: Yaping Zhang [view email]
[v1] Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:30:00 UTC (3,150 KB)
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