Evaluating and Advancing Multimodal Large Language Models in Perception Ability Lens

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Feng, Gou, Chenhui, Liu, Jing, Yang, Yang, Li, Zhaoyang, Zhang, Jiyuan, Sun, Zhenbang, Zhuang, Bohan, Wu, Qi
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author Chen, Feng
Gou, Chenhui
Liu, Jing
Yang, Yang
Li, Zhaoyang
Zhang, Jiyuan
Sun, Zhenbang
Zhuang, Bohan
Wu, Qi
author_facet Chen, Feng
Gou, Chenhui
Liu, Jing
Yang, Yang
Li, Zhaoyang
Zhang, Jiyuan
Sun, Zhenbang
Zhuang, Bohan
Wu, Qi
contents As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) advance rapidly, rigorous evaluation has become essential, providing further guidance for their development. In this work, we focus on a unified and robust evaluation of \textbf{vision perception} abilities, the foundational skill of MLLMs. We find that existing perception benchmarks, each focusing on different question types, domains, and evaluation metrics, introduce significant evaluation variance, complicating comprehensive assessments of perception abilities when relying on any single benchmark. To address this, we introduce \textbf{AbilityLens}, a unified benchmark designed to evaluate MLLMs in six key perception abilities (ranging from counting, OCR, to understanding structural data), focusing on both accuracy and stability, with each ability encompassing diverse types of questions, domains, and metrics. With the assistance of AbilityLens, we: (1) identify the strengths and weaknesses of current main-stream MLLMs, highlighting stability patterns and revealing a notable performance gap between state-of-the-art open-source and closed-source models; (2) uncover interesting ability conflict and early convergence phenomena during MLLM training; (3) reveal the primary reason of ability conflict is data mixing ratio and LLM model size; and (4) discuss the effectiveness of some straightforward strategies \eg, fine-tuning and model merging, to solve the ability conflict. The benchmark and online leaderboard is released in https://github.com/Chenfeng1271/AbilityLens.
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spellingShingle Evaluating and Advancing Multimodal Large Language Models in Perception Ability Lens
Chen, Feng
Gou, Chenhui
Liu, Jing
Yang, Yang
Li, Zhaoyang
Zhang, Jiyuan
Sun, Zhenbang
Zhuang, Bohan
Wu, Qi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) advance rapidly, rigorous evaluation has become essential, providing further guidance for their development. In this work, we focus on a unified and robust evaluation of \textbf{vision perception} abilities, the foundational skill of MLLMs. We find that existing perception benchmarks, each focusing on different question types, domains, and evaluation metrics, introduce significant evaluation variance, complicating comprehensive assessments of perception abilities when relying on any single benchmark. To address this, we introduce \textbf{AbilityLens}, a unified benchmark designed to evaluate MLLMs in six key perception abilities (ranging from counting, OCR, to understanding structural data), focusing on both accuracy and stability, with each ability encompassing diverse types of questions, domains, and metrics. With the assistance of AbilityLens, we: (1) identify the strengths and weaknesses of current main-stream MLLMs, highlighting stability patterns and revealing a notable performance gap between state-of-the-art open-source and closed-source models; (2) uncover interesting ability conflict and early convergence phenomena during MLLM training; (3) reveal the primary reason of ability conflict is data mixing ratio and LLM model size; and (4) discuss the effectiveness of some straightforward strategies \eg, fine-tuning and model merging, to solve the ability conflict. The benchmark and online leaderboard is released in https://github.com/Chenfeng1271/AbilityLens.
title Evaluating and Advancing Multimodal Large Language Models in Perception Ability Lens
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14725