MathScape: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models in Real-World Mathematical Contexts

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Autores principales: Liang, Hao, Sun, Linzhuang, Zhou, Minxuan, Chen, Zirong, Qiang, Meiyi, Lin, Mingan, Li, Tianpeng, Yang, Fan, Zhou, Zenan, Zhang, Wentao
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author Liang, Hao
Sun, Linzhuang
Zhou, Minxuan
Chen, Zirong
Qiang, Meiyi
Lin, Mingan
Li, Tianpeng
Yang, Fan
Zhou, Zenan
Zhang, Wentao
author_facet Liang, Hao
Sun, Linzhuang
Zhou, Minxuan
Chen, Zirong
Qiang, Meiyi
Lin, Mingan
Li, Tianpeng
Yang, Fan
Zhou, Zenan
Zhang, Wentao
contents With the rapid progress of Multimodal LLMs, evaluating their mathematical reasoning capabilities has become an increasingly important research direction. In particular, visual-textual mathematical reasoning serves as a key indicator of an MLLM's ability to comprehend and solve complex, multi-step quantitative problems. While existing benchmarks such as MathVista and MathVerse have advanced the evaluation of multimodal math proficiency, they primarily rely on digitally rendered content and fall short in capturing the complexity of real-world scenarios. To bridge this gap, we introduce MathScape, a novel benchmark focused on assessing MLLMs' reasoning ability in realistic mathematical contexts. MathScape comprises 1,369 high-quality math problems paired with human-captured real-world images, closely reflecting the challenges encountered in practical educational settings. We conduct a thorough multi-dimensional evaluation across nine leading closed-source MLLMs, three open-source MLLMs with over 20 billion parameters, and seven smaller-scale MLLMs. Our results show that even state-of-the-art models struggle with real-world math tasks, lagging behind human performance, highlighting critical limitations in current model capabilities. Moreover, we find that strong performance on synthetic or digitally rendered images does not guarantee similar effectiveness on real-world tasks. This underscores the necessity of MathScape in the next stage of multimodal mathematical reasoning.
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spellingShingle MathScape: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models in Real-World Mathematical Contexts
Liang, Hao
Sun, Linzhuang
Zhou, Minxuan
Chen, Zirong
Qiang, Meiyi
Lin, Mingan
Li, Tianpeng
Yang, Fan
Zhou, Zenan
Zhang, Wentao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
With the rapid progress of Multimodal LLMs, evaluating their mathematical reasoning capabilities has become an increasingly important research direction. In particular, visual-textual mathematical reasoning serves as a key indicator of an MLLM's ability to comprehend and solve complex, multi-step quantitative problems. While existing benchmarks such as MathVista and MathVerse have advanced the evaluation of multimodal math proficiency, they primarily rely on digitally rendered content and fall short in capturing the complexity of real-world scenarios. To bridge this gap, we introduce MathScape, a novel benchmark focused on assessing MLLMs' reasoning ability in realistic mathematical contexts. MathScape comprises 1,369 high-quality math problems paired with human-captured real-world images, closely reflecting the challenges encountered in practical educational settings. We conduct a thorough multi-dimensional evaluation across nine leading closed-source MLLMs, three open-source MLLMs with over 20 billion parameters, and seven smaller-scale MLLMs. Our results show that even state-of-the-art models struggle with real-world math tasks, lagging behind human performance, highlighting critical limitations in current model capabilities. Moreover, we find that strong performance on synthetic or digitally rendered images does not guarantee similar effectiveness on real-world tasks. This underscores the necessity of MathScape in the next stage of multimodal mathematical reasoning.
title MathScape: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models in Real-World Mathematical Contexts
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07543