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Learning to Ground Before Reading: Unified PCB Engineering Drawing Parsing with Compact Vision-Language Models

2026-08-29 13:48:48
Jinghao Liu, Xingrun Liu, Gengchen Sun, Han Xiao, Xingyu Chen, Yuhui Deng
arXiv_CV
             
Abstract

PCB engineering drawings mix sparse graphics, dense tables, and text whose meaning depends on page position. Localizing the regions and sending crops to specialized recognizers are determined as the methods for most parsers, so missed regions cannot be recovered downstream. We train a compact VLM to read the full page and get a sequence of region classes, normalized boxes, and text or HTML content. Bounding boxes are converted to coordinate tokens for supervision. Inference uses no detector or crop parser. The joint target is difficult to optimize because class and box tokens are sparse relative to the much longer content sequences. Our localization-first curriculum learns the class-box format before adding content targets with content-aware resampling. On the fixed validation split of the Engineering Drawing Dataset (ED dataset), Localization-First improves strict localization F1 by 0.0955 over joint training (paired image-bootstrap 95% interval: [0.0350, 0.1572]). G-Unified has the lowest NED, highest cell F1, and only nonzero exact-match score. It provides a detector-free baseline for full-page PCB drawing parsing.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29268

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.29268.pdf

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