CODIS: Benchmarking Context-dependent Visual Comprehension for Multimodal Large Language Models - ACL Anthology

CODIS: Benchmarking Context-dependent Visual Comprehension for Multimodal Large Language Models

Fuwen Luo, Chi Chen, Zihao Wan, Zhaolu Kang, Qidong Yan, Yingjie Li, Xiaolong Wang, Siyu Wang, Ziyue Wang, Xiaoyue Mi, Peng Li, Ning Ma, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu


Abstract
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promising results in a variety of tasks that combine vision and language. As these models become more integral to research and applications, conducting comprehensive evaluations of their capabilities has grown increasingly important. However, most existing benchmarks fail to consider that, in certain situations, images need to be interpreted within a broader context. In this work, we introduce a new benchmark, named as CODIS, designed to assess the ability of models to use context provided in free-form text to enhance visual comprehension. Our findings indicate that MLLMs consistently fall short of human performance on this benchmark. Further analysis confirms that these models struggle to effectively extract and utilize contextual information to improve their understanding of images. This underscores the pressing need to enhance the ability of MLLMs to comprehend visuals in a context-dependent manner.
Anthology ID:
2024.acl-long.573
Volume:
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
10639–10659
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.573
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.573
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Fuwen Luo, Chi Chen, Zihao Wan, Zhaolu Kang, Qidong Yan, Yingjie Li, Xiaolong Wang, Siyu Wang, Ziyue Wang, Xiaoyue Mi, Peng Li, Ning Ma, Maosong Sun, and Yang Liu. 2024. CODIS: Benchmarking Context-dependent Visual Comprehension for Multimodal Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 10639–10659, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CODIS: Benchmarking Context-dependent Visual Comprehension for Multimodal Large Language Models (Luo et al., ACL 2024)
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