Ablation Study of a Multimodal Gat Network on Perfect Synthetic and Real-world Data to Investigate the Influence of Language Models in Invoice Recognition

Document analysis and invoice recognition have been significantly advanced in recent years by grid-based, graph-based and transformer architectures. However, it is not only the model architecture that influences an approach’s results, but also the quality of training and test data. In this paper, we perform an ablation study on an existing state-of-the-art pre-trained multimodal GAT network. Therein we investigate two kinds of modifications to understand the sensitivity of the results by (1) exchanging the language module and (2) applying both the original and modified network on a perfect synthetic and an imperfect real-world dataset. The results of the study show the importance of language modules for semantic embeddings in multimodal invoice recognition and illustrate the impact of data annotation quality. We further contribute an adapted GAT model for German invoices.