Q-Mirror: Unlocking the Multi-Modal Potential of Scientific Text-Only QA Pairs

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Main Authors: Wang, Junying, Zhang, Zicheng, Shen, Ye, Wu, Yalun, Liang, Yingji, Guo, Yijin, Wen, Farong, Li, Wenzhe, Zhao, Xuezhi, Jia, Qi, Zhai, Guangtao
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author Wang, Junying
Zhang, Zicheng
Shen, Ye
Wu, Yalun
Liang, Yingji
Guo, Yijin
Wen, Farong
Li, Wenzhe
Zhao, Xuezhi
Jia, Qi
Zhai, Guangtao
author_facet Wang, Junying
Zhang, Zicheng
Shen, Ye
Wu, Yalun
Liang, Yingji
Guo, Yijin
Wen, Farong
Li, Wenzhe
Zhao, Xuezhi
Jia, Qi
Zhai, Guangtao
contents High-quality, multi-modal benchmarks are crucial for advancing scientific reasoning in large models yet their manual creation is costly and unscalable. To address this bottleneck, we explore the potential for transforming Text-Only QA Pairs (TQAs) into high-quality Multi-Modal QA Pairs (MMQAs), which include three parts: 1) Task Definition \& Evaluation Rubric: We develop a TQA-to-MMQA framework and establish a comprehensive, multi-dimensional MMQA quality rubric that provides principles for the transformation. 2) Benchmark Construction: Then we construct two extensive benchmarks to rigorously evaluate state-of-the-art generation \& understanding models on the distinct tasks of MMQA generation \& MMQA quality evaluation. 3) Preliminary Solution: We develop an agentic system (Q-Mirror), which operationalizes our framework by integrating MMQA generation and evaluation into a closed loop for iterative refinement. Our experiments show that while state-of-the-art models can generate MMQAs, their outputs still leave substantial gaps, underscoring the need for reliable evaluation. We further demonstrate that top-tier understanding models align closely with human judgment in MMQA quality assessment. Leveraging both insights, the Q-Mirror agent raises average scores from 78.90 to 85.22 and pass rates from 72\% to 95\%, offering a practical path to large-scale scientific benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Q-Mirror: Unlocking the Multi-Modal Potential of Scientific Text-Only QA Pairs
Wang, Junying
Zhang, Zicheng
Shen, Ye
Wu, Yalun
Liang, Yingji
Guo, Yijin
Wen, Farong
Li, Wenzhe
Zhao, Xuezhi
Jia, Qi
Zhai, Guangtao
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
High-quality, multi-modal benchmarks are crucial for advancing scientific reasoning in large models yet their manual creation is costly and unscalable. To address this bottleneck, we explore the potential for transforming Text-Only QA Pairs (TQAs) into high-quality Multi-Modal QA Pairs (MMQAs), which include three parts: 1) Task Definition \& Evaluation Rubric: We develop a TQA-to-MMQA framework and establish a comprehensive, multi-dimensional MMQA quality rubric that provides principles for the transformation. 2) Benchmark Construction: Then we construct two extensive benchmarks to rigorously evaluate state-of-the-art generation \& understanding models on the distinct tasks of MMQA generation \& MMQA quality evaluation. 3) Preliminary Solution: We develop an agentic system (Q-Mirror), which operationalizes our framework by integrating MMQA generation and evaluation into a closed loop for iterative refinement. Our experiments show that while state-of-the-art models can generate MMQAs, their outputs still leave substantial gaps, underscoring the need for reliable evaluation. We further demonstrate that top-tier understanding models align closely with human judgment in MMQA quality assessment. Leveraging both insights, the Q-Mirror agent raises average scores from 78.90 to 85.22 and pass rates from 72\% to 95\%, offering a practical path to large-scale scientific benchmarks.
title Q-Mirror: Unlocking the Multi-Modal Potential of Scientific Text-Only QA Pairs
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24297