> [!NOTE] **TL;DR** > In this post, I motivate ANLS*, an edit-distance-based metric for evaluating structured responses. In a previous post, I [[Speeding up Visual Question Answering 10x (Faster ANLS)|explained and reimplemented ANLS]], a metric for evaluating textual question answering from images. # References ANLS* Implementation: https://github.com/deepopinion/anls_star_metric Paper: