MinerU-Diffusion: A New Approach to OCR via Diffusion Decoding Speeds Up PDF Parsing 3× Without Accuracy Loss
27 March 2026
MinerU-Diffusion: A New Approach to OCR via Diffusion Decoding Speeds Up PDF Parsing 3× Without Accuracy Loss
A team from Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Peking University published MinerU-Diffusion — a document OCR framework that abandons classical autoregressive generation in favor of diffusion-based decoding. The project is…