Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models

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Main Authors: Zhang, Yuan, Xiao, Fei, Huang, Tao, Fan, Chun-Kai, Dong, Hongyuan, Li, Jiawen, Wang, Jiacong, Cheng, Kuan, Zhang, Shanghang, Guo, Haoyuan
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author Zhang, Yuan
Xiao, Fei
Huang, Tao
Fan, Chun-Kai
Dong, Hongyuan
Li, Jiawen
Wang, Jiacong
Cheng, Kuan
Zhang, Shanghang
Guo, Haoyuan
author_facet Zhang, Yuan
Xiao, Fei
Huang, Tao
Fan, Chun-Kai
Dong, Hongyuan
Li, Jiawen
Wang, Jiacong
Cheng, Kuan
Zhang, Shanghang
Guo, Haoyuan
contents Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have recently achieved rapid progress, exhibiting great perception and reasoning abilities concerning visual information. However, when faced with prompts in different sizes of solution spaces, LVLMs fail to always give consistent answers regarding the same knowledge point. This inconsistency of answers between different solution spaces is prevalent in LVLMs and erodes trust. To this end, we provide a multi-modal benchmark ConBench, to intuitively analyze how LVLMs perform when the solution space of a prompt revolves around a knowledge point. Based on the ConBench tool, we are the first to reveal the tapestry and get the following findings: (1) In the discriminate realm, the larger the solution space of the prompt, the lower the accuracy of the answers. (2) Establish the relationship between the discriminative and generative realms: the accuracy of the discriminative question type exhibits a strong positive correlation with its Consistency with the caption. (3) Compared to open-source models, closed-source models exhibit a pronounced bias advantage in terms of Consistency. Eventually, we ameliorate the consistency of LVLMs by trigger-based diagnostic refinement, indirectly improving the performance of their caption. We hope this paper will accelerate the research community in better evaluating their models and encourage future advancements in the consistency domain. The project is available at https://github.com/foundation-multimodal-models/ConBench.
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spellingShingle Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
Zhang, Yuan
Xiao, Fei
Huang, Tao
Fan, Chun-Kai
Dong, Hongyuan
Li, Jiawen
Wang, Jiacong
Cheng, Kuan
Zhang, Shanghang
Guo, Haoyuan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have recently achieved rapid progress, exhibiting great perception and reasoning abilities concerning visual information. However, when faced with prompts in different sizes of solution spaces, LVLMs fail to always give consistent answers regarding the same knowledge point. This inconsistency of answers between different solution spaces is prevalent in LVLMs and erodes trust. To this end, we provide a multi-modal benchmark ConBench, to intuitively analyze how LVLMs perform when the solution space of a prompt revolves around a knowledge point. Based on the ConBench tool, we are the first to reveal the tapestry and get the following findings: (1) In the discriminate realm, the larger the solution space of the prompt, the lower the accuracy of the answers. (2) Establish the relationship between the discriminative and generative realms: the accuracy of the discriminative question type exhibits a strong positive correlation with its Consistency with the caption. (3) Compared to open-source models, closed-source models exhibit a pronounced bias advantage in terms of Consistency. Eventually, we ameliorate the consistency of LVLMs by trigger-based diagnostic refinement, indirectly improving the performance of their caption. We hope this paper will accelerate the research community in better evaluating their models and encourage future advancements in the consistency domain. The project is available at https://github.com/foundation-multimodal-models/ConBench.
title Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14156