In this video, I look at DeepSeek OCR and show that it's an experiment in using images to compress text representations better.
DeepSeek OCR Paper: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR/blob/main/DeepSeek_OCR_paper.pdf
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⏱️Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:30 DeepSeek OCR: Contexts Optical Compression Paper
03:37 Transformer
04:12 Vision Transformer (ViT)
10:11 DeepSeek-OCR GitHub and Hugging Face
10:32 Nanonets and PaddleOCR-VL
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