COMMA: A Communicative Multimodal Multi-Agent Benchmark

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Hauptverfasser: Ossowski, Timothy, Maqbool, Danyal, Chen, Jixuan, Cai, Zefan, Bradshaw, Tyler, Hu, Junjie
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author Ossowski, Timothy
Maqbool, Danyal
Chen, Jixuan
Cai, Zefan
Bradshaw, Tyler
Hu, Junjie
author_facet Ossowski, Timothy
Maqbool, Danyal
Chen, Jixuan
Cai, Zefan
Bradshaw, Tyler
Hu, Junjie
contents The rapid advances of multimodal agents built on large foundation models have largely overlooked their potential for language-based communication between agents in collaborative tasks. This oversight presents a critical gap in understanding their effectiveness in real-world deployments, particularly when communicating with humans. Existing agentic benchmarks fail to address key aspects of inter-agent communication and collaboration, particularly in scenarios where agents have unequal access to information and must work together to achieve tasks beyond the scope of individual capabilities. To fill this gap, we introduce COMMA: a novel puzzle benchmark designed to evaluate the collaborative performance of multimodal multi-agent systems through language communication. Our benchmark features a variety of multimodal puzzles, providing a comprehensive evaluation across four key categories of agentic capability in a communicative collaboration setting. Our findings reveal surprising weaknesses in state-of-the-art models, including strong proprietary models like GPT-4o and reasoning models like o4-mini. Many chain of thought reasoning models such as R1-Onevision and LLaVA-CoT struggle to outperform even a random baseline in agent-agent collaboration, indicating a potential growth area in their communication abilities.
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spellingShingle COMMA: A Communicative Multimodal Multi-Agent Benchmark
Ossowski, Timothy
Maqbool, Danyal
Chen, Jixuan
Cai, Zefan
Bradshaw, Tyler
Hu, Junjie
Artificial Intelligence
The rapid advances of multimodal agents built on large foundation models have largely overlooked their potential for language-based communication between agents in collaborative tasks. This oversight presents a critical gap in understanding their effectiveness in real-world deployments, particularly when communicating with humans. Existing agentic benchmarks fail to address key aspects of inter-agent communication and collaboration, particularly in scenarios where agents have unequal access to information and must work together to achieve tasks beyond the scope of individual capabilities. To fill this gap, we introduce COMMA: a novel puzzle benchmark designed to evaluate the collaborative performance of multimodal multi-agent systems through language communication. Our benchmark features a variety of multimodal puzzles, providing a comprehensive evaluation across four key categories of agentic capability in a communicative collaboration setting. Our findings reveal surprising weaknesses in state-of-the-art models, including strong proprietary models like GPT-4o and reasoning models like o4-mini. Many chain of thought reasoning models such as R1-Onevision and LLaVA-CoT struggle to outperform even a random baseline in agent-agent collaboration, indicating a potential growth area in their communication abilities.
title COMMA: A Communicative Multimodal Multi-Agent Benchmark
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07553