Surya OCR 2.5 cuts repetitive-loop failures 38x vs Surya 2, hitting token cap on just 0.1% of requests

VikParuchuri · x · 2026-10-30

Repetitive output loops are a common failure in small OCR models. Datalab reports that on a hard set, Surya OCR 2.5 hits the token cap (looping) on only 0.1% of requests (2 of 1,390), versus 3.8% for Surya 2 + MTP (38 of 988) — a 38x reduction. Tested on one H100, vLLM 0.25.1, 192 DPI, pooled over 1/8/32/128 concurrent requests.

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