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Main Authors: Han, Tianyang, Su, Junhao, Hu, Junjie, Yang, Peizhen, Shi, Hengyu, Luo, Junfeng, Gao, Jialin
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18271
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author Han, Tianyang
Su, Junhao
Hu, Junjie
Yang, Peizhen
Shi, Hengyu
Luo, Junfeng
Gao, Jialin
author_facet Han, Tianyang
Su, Junhao
Hu, Junjie
Yang, Peizhen
Shi, Hengyu
Luo, Junfeng
Gao, Jialin
contents Text-to-image (T2I) models today are capable of producing photorealistic, instruction-following images, yet they still frequently fail on prompts that require implicit world knowledge. Existing evaluation protocols either emphasize compositional alignment or rely on single-round VQA-based scoring, leaving critical dimensions such as knowledge grounding, multi-physics interactions, and auditable evidence-substantially undertested. To address these limitations, we introduce PicWorld, the first comprehensive benchmark that assesses the grasp of implicit world knowledge and physical causal reasoning of T2I models. This benchmark consists of 1,100 prompts across three core categories. To facilitate fine-grained evaluation, we propose PW-Agent, an evidence-grounded multi-agent evaluator to hierarchically assess images on their physical realism and logical consistency by decomposing prompts into verifiable visual evidence. We conduct a thorough analysis of 17 mainstream T2I models on PicWorld, illustrating that they universally exhibit a fundamental limitation in their capacity for implicit world knowledge and physical causal reasoning to varying degrees. The findings highlight the need for reasoning-aware, knowledge-integrative architectures in future T2I systems.
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spellingShingle Beyond Words and Pixels: A Benchmark for Implicit World Knowledge Reasoning in Generative Models
Han, Tianyang
Su, Junhao
Hu, Junjie
Yang, Peizhen
Shi, Hengyu
Luo, Junfeng
Gao, Jialin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Text-to-image (T2I) models today are capable of producing photorealistic, instruction-following images, yet they still frequently fail on prompts that require implicit world knowledge. Existing evaluation protocols either emphasize compositional alignment or rely on single-round VQA-based scoring, leaving critical dimensions such as knowledge grounding, multi-physics interactions, and auditable evidence-substantially undertested. To address these limitations, we introduce PicWorld, the first comprehensive benchmark that assesses the grasp of implicit world knowledge and physical causal reasoning of T2I models. This benchmark consists of 1,100 prompts across three core categories. To facilitate fine-grained evaluation, we propose PW-Agent, an evidence-grounded multi-agent evaluator to hierarchically assess images on their physical realism and logical consistency by decomposing prompts into verifiable visual evidence. We conduct a thorough analysis of 17 mainstream T2I models on PicWorld, illustrating that they universally exhibit a fundamental limitation in their capacity for implicit world knowledge and physical causal reasoning to varying degrees. The findings highlight the need for reasoning-aware, knowledge-integrative architectures in future T2I systems.
title Beyond Words and Pixels: A Benchmark for Implicit World Knowledge Reasoning in Generative Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18271