# Zijian Chen 2025: OBI-Bench: Can LMMs Aid in Study of Ancient Script on Oracle Bones?

> Zijian Chen, Tingzhu Chen, Wenjun Zhang et al., 2025. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Benchmark of 5,523 images and five tasks (recognition…

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# OBI-Bench: Can LMMs Aid in Study of Ancient Script on Oracle Bones?

Zijian Chen, Tingzhu Chen, Wenjun Zhang et al., 2025.

**Unread oracle bone characters** Paper-conferencedoi: **[10.48550/arXiv.2412.01175](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.01175)** 0

## What it's used for here

Benchmark of 5,523 images and five tasks (recognition, rejoining, classification, retrieval, deciphering) on 23 large multimodal models; the best models match untrained humans on deciphering and trail them on fine perception. ICLR 2025.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[OBI-Bench finds the best of 23 large multimodal models deciphering at about the level of untrained people, and EVOBC's…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTJ2A3HW3/obi-bench-finds-the-best-of-23-large-multimodal-models)

Evidence

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[The unread oracle bone characters](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered)

The mystery article

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[Can computational methods produce readings of unread graphs that palaeographers accept?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQFMCXW4D/can-computational-methods-produce-readings-of-unread-graphs)

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## Cite it

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Zijian Chen, Tingzhu Chen, Wenjun Zhang, & Guangtao Zhai (2025). OBI-Bench: Can LMMs Aid in Study of Ancient Script on Oracle Bones?. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.01175
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[Find it at arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01175)

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