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PA-CDM: Position-Aware Character Detection Matching for Evaluating Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 11, 2026 · UTC

Handwritten mathematical expression recognition (HMER) is conventionally scored by exact-match rates and string-similarity metrics that are blind to where an error occurs: two predictions with identical token-error counts receive identical scores whether they misplace a subscript or swap the operands of a fraction. Render-based character detection matching (CDM) aligns glyphs robustly but remains position-blind---on controlled fraction-operand swaps it scores 0.8595 where position-aware scoring yields 0.6253. Tree-edit metrics exhibit a complementary blind spot: rewrites outside the parser's n

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