CAST: Cross-modal Alignment Similarity Test for Vision Language Models

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Autori principali: Dagan, Gautier, Loginova, Olga, Batra, Anil
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author Dagan, Gautier
Loginova, Olga
Batra, Anil
author_facet Dagan, Gautier
Loginova, Olga
Batra, Anil
contents 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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spellingShingle CAST: Cross-modal Alignment Similarity Test for Vision Language Models
Dagan, Gautier
Loginova, Olga
Batra, Anil
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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.
title CAST: Cross-modal Alignment Similarity Test for Vision Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11007