ViLBench: A Suite for Vision-Language Process Reward Modeling

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Tu, Haoqin, Feng, Weitao, Chen, Hardy, Liu, Hui, Tang, Xianfeng, Xie, Cihang
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2025
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866915213807190016
author Tu, Haoqin
Feng, Weitao
Chen, Hardy
Liu, Hui
Tang, Xianfeng
Xie, Cihang
author_facet Tu, Haoqin
Feng, Weitao
Chen, Hardy
Liu, Hui
Tang, Xianfeng
Xie, Cihang
contents Process-supervised reward models serve as a fine-grained function that provides detailed step-wise feedback to model responses, facilitating effective selection of reasoning trajectories for complex tasks. Despite its advantages, evaluation on PRMs remains less explored, especially in the multimodal domain. To address this gap, this paper first benchmarks current vision large language models (VLLMs) as two types of reward models: output reward models (ORMs) and process reward models (PRMs) on multiple vision-language benchmarks, which reveal that neither ORM nor PRM consistently outperforms across all tasks, and superior VLLMs do not necessarily yield better rewarding performance. To further advance evaluation, we introduce ViLBench, a vision-language benchmark designed to require intensive process reward signals. Notably, OpenAI's GPT-4o with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) achieves only 27.3% accuracy, indicating the benchmark's challenge for current VLLMs. Lastly, we preliminarily showcase a promising pathway towards bridging the gap between general VLLMs and reward models -- by collecting 73.6K vision-language process reward data using an enhanced tree-search algorithm, our 3B model is able to achieve an average improvement of 3.3% over standard CoT and up to 2.5% compared to its untrained counterpart on ViLBench by selecting OpenAI o1's generations. We release the implementations at https://ucsc-vlaa.github.io/ViLBench with our code, model, and data.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2503_20271
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle ViLBench: A Suite for Vision-Language Process Reward Modeling
Tu, Haoqin
Feng, Weitao
Chen, Hardy
Liu, Hui
Tang, Xianfeng
Xie, Cihang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Process-supervised reward models serve as a fine-grained function that provides detailed step-wise feedback to model responses, facilitating effective selection of reasoning trajectories for complex tasks. Despite its advantages, evaluation on PRMs remains less explored, especially in the multimodal domain. To address this gap, this paper first benchmarks current vision large language models (VLLMs) as two types of reward models: output reward models (ORMs) and process reward models (PRMs) on multiple vision-language benchmarks, which reveal that neither ORM nor PRM consistently outperforms across all tasks, and superior VLLMs do not necessarily yield better rewarding performance. To further advance evaluation, we introduce ViLBench, a vision-language benchmark designed to require intensive process reward signals. Notably, OpenAI's GPT-4o with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) achieves only 27.3% accuracy, indicating the benchmark's challenge for current VLLMs. Lastly, we preliminarily showcase a promising pathway towards bridging the gap between general VLLMs and reward models -- by collecting 73.6K vision-language process reward data using an enhanced tree-search algorithm, our 3B model is able to achieve an average improvement of 3.3% over standard CoT and up to 2.5% compared to its untrained counterpart on ViLBench by selecting OpenAI o1's generations. We release the implementations at https://ucsc-vlaa.github.io/ViLBench with our code, model, and data.
title ViLBench: A Suite for Vision-Language Process Reward Modeling
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20271