A DPO-trained VLM critic that critiques and iteratively refines a reasoning VLM improves accuracy on several multimodal benchmarks, with large gains on MathVista and RealWorldQA.
CAST: Cross-modal Alignment Similarity Test for Vision Language Models
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Vision Language Models (VLMs) are typically evaluated with Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks which assess a model's understanding of scenes. Good VQA performance is taken as evidence that the model will perform well on a broader range of tasks that require both visual and language inputs. However, scene-aware VQA does not fully capture input biases or assess hallucinations caused by a misalignment between modalities. To address this, we propose a Cross-modal Alignment Similarity Test (CAST) to probe VLMs for self-consistency across modalities. This test involves asking the models to identify similarities between two scenes through text-only, image-only, or both and then assess the truthfulness of the similarities they generate. Since there is no ground-truth to compare against, this evaluation does not focus on objective accuracy but rather on whether VLMs are internally consistent in their outputs. We argue that while not all self-consistent models are capable or accurate, all capable VLMs must be self-consistent.
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Critic-V: VLM Critics Help Catch VLM Errors in Multimodal Reasoning
A DPO-trained VLM critic that critiques and iteratively refines a reasoning VLM improves accuracy on several multimodal benchmarks, with large gains on MathVista and RealWorldQA.