STORM: Benchmarking Visual Rating of MLLMs with a Comprehensive Ordinal Regression Dataset

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Main Authors: Wang, Jinhong, Tong, Shuo, liu, Jian, Tang, Dongqi, Chen, Jintai, Ying, Haochao, Xu, Hongxia, Chen, Danny, Wu, Jian
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author Wang, Jinhong
Tong, Shuo
liu, Jian
Tang, Dongqi
Chen, Jintai
Ying, Haochao
Xu, Hongxia
Chen, Danny
Wu, Jian
author_facet Wang, Jinhong
Tong, Shuo
liu, Jian
Tang, Dongqi
Chen, Jintai
Ying, Haochao
Xu, Hongxia
Chen, Danny
Wu, Jian
contents Visual rating is an essential capability of artificial intelligence (AI) for multi-dimensional quantification of visual content, primarily applied in ordinal regression (OR) tasks such as image quality assessment, facial age estimation, and medical image grading. However, current multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) under-perform in such visual rating ability while also suffering the lack of relevant datasets and benchmarks. In this work, we collect and present STORM, a data collection and benchmark for Stimulating Trustworthy Ordinal Regression Ability of MLLMs for universal visual rating. STORM encompasses 14 ordinal regression datasets across five common visual rating domains, comprising 655K image-level pairs and the corresponding carefully curated VQAs. Importantly, we also propose a coarse-to-fine processing pipeline that dynamically considers label candidates and provides interpretable thoughts, providing MLLMs with a general and trustworthy ordinal thinking paradigm. This benchmark aims to evaluate the all-in-one and zero-shot performance of MLLMs in scenarios requiring understanding of the essential common ordinal relationships of rating labels. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework and shed light on better fine-tuning strategies. The STORM dataset, benchmark, and pre-trained models are available on the following webpage to support further research in this area. Datasets and codes are released on the project page: https://storm-bench.github.io/.
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spellingShingle STORM: Benchmarking Visual Rating of MLLMs with a Comprehensive Ordinal Regression Dataset
Wang, Jinhong
Tong, Shuo
liu, Jian
Tang, Dongqi
Chen, Jintai
Ying, Haochao
Xu, Hongxia
Chen, Danny
Wu, Jian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Visual rating is an essential capability of artificial intelligence (AI) for multi-dimensional quantification of visual content, primarily applied in ordinal regression (OR) tasks such as image quality assessment, facial age estimation, and medical image grading. However, current multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) under-perform in such visual rating ability while also suffering the lack of relevant datasets and benchmarks. In this work, we collect and present STORM, a data collection and benchmark for Stimulating Trustworthy Ordinal Regression Ability of MLLMs for universal visual rating. STORM encompasses 14 ordinal regression datasets across five common visual rating domains, comprising 655K image-level pairs and the corresponding carefully curated VQAs. Importantly, we also propose a coarse-to-fine processing pipeline that dynamically considers label candidates and provides interpretable thoughts, providing MLLMs with a general and trustworthy ordinal thinking paradigm. This benchmark aims to evaluate the all-in-one and zero-shot performance of MLLMs in scenarios requiring understanding of the essential common ordinal relationships of rating labels. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework and shed light on better fine-tuning strategies. The STORM dataset, benchmark, and pre-trained models are available on the following webpage to support further research in this area. Datasets and codes are released on the project page: https://storm-bench.github.io/.
title STORM: Benchmarking Visual Rating of MLLMs with a Comprehensive Ordinal Regression Dataset
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01738