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MM-Vet: Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Integrated Capabilities
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We propose MM-Vet, an evaluation benchmark that examines large multimodal models (LMMs) on complicated multimodal tasks. Recent LMMs have shown various intriguing abilities, such as solving math problems written on the blackboard, reasoning about events and celebrities in news images, and explaining visual jokes. Rapid model advancements pose challenges to evaluation benchmark development. Problems include: (1) How to systematically structure and evaluate the complicated multimodal tasks; (2) How to design evaluation metrics that work well across question and answer types; and (3) How to give model insights beyond a simple performance ranking. To this end, we present MM-Vet, designed based on the insight that the intriguing ability to solve complicated tasks is often achieved by a generalist model being able to integrate different core vision-language (VL) capabilities. MM-Vet defines 6 core VL capabilities and examines the 16 integrations of interest derived from the capability combination. For evaluation metrics, we propose an LLM-based evaluator for open-ended outputs. The evaluator enables the evaluation across different question types and answer styles, resulting in a unified scoring metric. We evaluate representative LMMs on MM-Vet, providing insights into the capabilities of different LMM system paradigms and models.
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- abstract We propose MM-Vet, an evaluation benchmark that examines large multimodal models (LMMs) on complicated multimodal tasks. Recent LMMs have shown various intriguing abilities, such as solving math problems written on the blackboard, reasoning about events and celebrities in news images, and explaining visual jokes. Rapid model advancements pose challenges to evaluation benchmark development. Problems include: (1) How to systematically structure and evaluate the complicated multimodal tasks; (2) How to design evaluation metrics that work well across question and answer types; and (3) How to give
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SenseBench: A Benchmark for Remote Sensing Low-Level Visual Perception and Description in Large Vision-Language Models
SenseBench is the first physics-based benchmark with 10K+ instances and dual protocols to evaluate VLMs on remote sensing low-level perception and diagnostic description, revealing domain bias and specific failure modes.
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TraceAV-Bench: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Trajectory Reasoning over Long Audio-Visual Videos
TraceAV-Bench is the first benchmark for multi-hop trajectory reasoning over long audio-visual videos, showing top models reach only 51-68% accuracy with substantial room for improvement.
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EVE: Verifiable Self-Evolution of MLLMs via Executable Visual Transformations
EVE enables verifiable self-evolution of MLLMs by using a Challenger-Solver architecture to generate dynamic executable visual transformations that produce VQA problems with absolute execution-verified ground truth.
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NEST: Narrative Event Structures in Time for Long Video Understanding
NEST is a new benchmark dataset for narrative event structures in long videos, with baselines reporting ETD below 8%, EL under 6%, EAE below 11%, and ERE at 35-44% F1.
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CapRL++: Unified Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards for Dense Image and Video Captioning
CapRL++ applies reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to dense image and video captioning by scoring captions via the accuracy of a vision-free LLM answering MCQs from the caption alone.
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DisasterBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for UAV-Based Disaster Response in Complex Environments
DisasterBench is a new multi-stage multimodal reasoning benchmark for UAV disaster response with 14 scenes and 9 tasks; the accompanying 2B DisasterVL model outperforms open-source MLLMs and approaches GPT-4o efficiency.
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GroupToM-Bench: Benchmarking Group Theory of Mind and Nonlinear Social Emergence in MLLMs
GroupToM-Bench is presented as the first multimodal benchmark for group-level Theory of Mind spanning micro BDI states to macro outcome prediction, with experiments showing current MLLMs lag human baselines on nonlinear social dynamics.
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CXR-ContraBench: Benchmarking Negated-Option Attraction in Medical VLMs
Medical VLMs frequently select negated options that contradict visible chest X-ray findings, achieving only ~30% accuracy on direct presence probes, but a post-hoc consistency verifier raises accuracy above 95%.
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Mema: Memory-Augmented Adapter for Enhanced Vision-Language Understanding
Mema adds a stateful memory module to vision encoders that accumulates hierarchical visual features across layers and selectively injects portions back via feedback to preserve fine-grained cues, yielding consistent gains on multimodal benchmarks.
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Addressing Overthinking in Large Vision-Language Models via Gated Perception-Reasoning Optimization
GPRO trains a meta-controller on 790k failure-labeled samples to dynamically select fast, perception, or reasoning paths in LVLMs, yielding higher accuracy and shorter responses than prior slow-thinking methods.
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AIA: Rethinking Architecture Decoupling Strategy In Unified Multimodal Model
AIA loss teaches unified multimodal models task-specific cross-modal attention patterns to reduce conflicts between image understanding and generation without architecture decoupling.
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AVA-Bench: Atomic Visual Ability Benchmark for Vision Foundation Models
AVA-Bench evaluates vision foundation models by disentangling 14 atomic visual abilities with aligned training-test distributions to reveal precise ability fingerprints.
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FLARE: Fully Integration of Vision-Language Representations for Deep Cross-Modal Understanding
FLARE is a vision-language model family using text-guided vision encoding, context-aware alignment decoding, dual-semantic mapping loss, and text-driven VQA synthesis to achieve deep cross-modal integration, outperforming larger models with only 630 vision tokens at 3B scale.
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Transfer between Modalities with MetaQueries
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DualToken: Towards Unifying Visual Understanding and Generation with Dual Visual Vocabularies
DualToken disentangles semantics and appearance via separate codebooks in one tokenizer, reporting 0.25 rFID, 82% ImageNet zero-shot accuracy, and gains over VILA-U on understanding and generation benchmarks.
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GuideDog: A Real-World Egocentric Multimodal Dataset for Blind and Low-Vision Accessibility-Aware Guidance
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PyramidDrop: Accelerating Your Large Vision-Language Models via Pyramid Visual Redundancy Reduction
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Janus: Decoupling Visual Encoding for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
Janus decouples visual encoding into task-specific pathways inside a single autoregressive transformer to unify multimodal understanding and generation while outperforming earlier unified models.
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HallusionBench: An Advanced Diagnostic Suite for Entangled Language Hallucination and Visual Illusion in Large Vision-Language Models
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HPP: Hierarchical Programmatic Probing for Long Video Understanding by Decoupling Perception and Reasoning
HPP decouples perception from reasoning in long-video VLMs by having an LLM run iterative programmatic probes on hierarchically segmented video, reporting gains on LongVideoBench, EgoSchema, VideoMME, and MLVU.
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Visuals Lie, Consistency Speaks: Disentangling Spatial Attention from Reliability in Vision-Language Models
Spatial attention metrics in VLMs correlate near zero (R≈0.001) with accuracy while self-consistency predicts truth at R=0.429; reliability stems from generation dynamics rather than visual grounding.
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HYDRA-X: Native Unified Multimodal Models with Holistic Visual Tokenizers
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RoboStressBench: Benchmarking VLM Robustness to Physical Visual Stress in Embodied Scenes
RoboStressBench decomposes visual stress into four physically grounded dimensions to benchmark VLM robustness in embodied scenes and proposes a stress-aware solver.
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DIVA: Harnessing the Representation Divergence in Unified Multimodal Models for Mutual Reinforcement
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Do Vision-Language Models Understand 3D Scenes or Just Catalogue Objects?
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LatentUMM: Dual Latent Alignment for Unified Multimodal Models
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UAM: A Dual-Stream Perspective on Forgetting in VLA Training
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LRCP: Low-Rank Compressibility Guided Visual Token Pruning for Efficient LVLMs
LRCP prunes visual tokens in LVLMs by scoring projection residuals onto a PCA-estimated low-rank subspace, achieving 88.9% image token reduction with 94.7% performance retention and 87.5% video reduction with 97.8% accuracy retention.
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Deep Pre-Alignment for VLMs
Deep Pre-Alignment uses a small VLM perceiver instead of ViT to pre-align visual features with LLM text space, yielding 1.9-3.0 point gains on multimodal benchmarks and 32.9% less language forgetting.
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LithoBench: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Remote-Sensing Lithology Interpretation
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Online Self-Calibration Against Hallucination in Vision-Language Models
OSCAR exploits the generative-discriminative gap in LVLMs to build online preference data with MCTS and dual-granularity rewards for DPO-based calibration, claiming SOTA hallucination reduction and improved multimodal performance.
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Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
Tuna-2 shows that direct pixel embeddings can replace vision encoders in unified multimodal models, achieving competitive generation and stronger understanding at scale.
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PivotMerge: Bridging Heterogeneous Multimodal Pre-training via Post-Alignment Model Merging
PivotMerge merges heterogeneous multimodal pre-trained models via shared-space decomposition to filter conflicts and layer-wise weights based on alignment contributions, outperforming baselines on multimodal benchmarks.
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HTDC: Hesitation-Triggered Differential Calibration for Mitigating Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
HTDC mitigates hallucinations in LVLMs by triggering calibration only at hesitation-prone decoding steps via contrasts with visual-nullification and semantic-nullification probes.
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POINTS-Long: Adaptive Dual-Mode Visual Reasoning in MLLMs
POINTS-Long is a dual-mode multimodal large language model that uses dynamic visual token scaling to retain 97.7-99.7% accuracy on long-form tasks with 1/40 to 1/10th the tokens and supports streaming via detachable KV-cache.
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See Fair, Speak Truth: Equitable Attention Improves Grounding and Reduces Hallucination in Vision-Language Alignment
Equitable attention via Dominant Object Penalty and Outlier Boost Coefficient reduces object hallucinations in multimodal LLMs without retraining.
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Precise Shield: Explaining and Aligning VLLM Safety via Neuron-Level Guidance
Precise Shield identifies safety neurons in VLLMs via activation contrasts and aligns only them with gradient masking, boosting safety, preserving generalization, and enabling zero-shot cross-lingual and cross-modal transfer.
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CLEAR: Unlocking Generative Potential for Degraded Image Understanding in Unified Multimodal Models
CLEAR uses degradation-aware fine-tuning, a latent representation bridge, and interleaved reinforcement learning to connect generative and reasoning capabilities in multimodal models for better degraded image understanding.
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DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression
DeepSeek-OCR compresses text contexts up to 20x via 2D optical mapping while achieving 97% OCR accuracy below 10x and 60% at 20x, outperforming prior OCR tools with fewer vision tokens.
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Accelerating Vision Transformers with Adaptive Patch Sizes
APT adaptively varies patch sizes within a single image to reduce ViT token count, delivering 40-50% throughput gains on large models with no downstream performance loss.
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Mitigating Visual Context Degradation in Large Multimodal Models: A Training-Free Decoupled Agentic Framework
DRP decouples reasoning from perception in LMMs by using an LLM reasoner to query an LMM observer for visual details as needed, reducing visual grounding loss.
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InternVL3.5: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal Models in Versatility, Reasoning, and Efficiency
InternVL3.5 advances open-source multimodal models with Cascade RL for +16% reasoning gains and ViR for 4x inference speedup, with the 241B model reaching SOTA among open-source MLLMs on multimodal, reasoning, and agentic tasks.
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Mitigating Object Hallucinations via Sentence-Level Early Intervention
SENTINEL reduces MLLM object hallucinations by over 90% via sentence-level early intervention with detector-bootstrapped preference data and C-DPO loss, outperforming prior SOTA on hallucination and capability benchmarks.
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Slot-MLLM: Object-Centric Visual Tokenization for Multimodal LLM
Slot-MLLM introduces a slot-attention-based object-centric visual tokenizer with Q-Former encoder, diffusion decoder, and residual vector quantization for improved local visual comprehension and generation in multimodal LLMs.
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Visual Compositional Tuning
COMPACT synthesizes compositional visual instruction data to reduce VIT training data by 90% while achieving 100.2% of full performance across eight multimodal benchmarks.
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InternVL3: Exploring Advanced Training and Test-Time Recipes for Open-Source Multimodal Models
InternVL3-78B sets a new open-source SOTA of 72.2 on MMMU via native joint multimodal pre-training, V2PE, MPO, and test-time scaling while remaining competitive with proprietary models.
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Expanding Performance Boundaries of Open-Source Multimodal Models with Model, Data, and Test-Time Scaling
InternVL 2.5 is the first open-source MLLM to surpass 70% on the MMMU benchmark via model, data, and test-time scaling, with a 3.7-point gain from chain-of-thought reasoning.
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Aligned Vector Quantization for Edge-Cloud Collabrative Vision-Language Models
Presents LLaVA-AlignedVQ, an edge-cloud VQA system with AlignedVQ that delivers 1365x feature compression, 96.8% lower transmission than JPEG90, 2-15x speedup, and accuracy within -2.23% to +1.6% of the baseline across eight datasets.
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Emu3: Next-Token Prediction is All You Need
Emu3 shows that next-token prediction on a unified discrete token space for text, images, and video lets a single transformer outperform task-specific models such as SDXL and LLaVA-1.6 in multimodal generation and perception.
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SEED-X: Multimodal Models with Unified Multi-granularity Comprehension and Generation
SEED-X is a unified multimodal foundation model that handles multi-granularity visual semantics for both comprehension and generation across arbitrary image sizes and ratios.