MMR-Life: Piecing Together Real-life Scenes for Multimodal Multi-image Reasoning

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Autores principales: Li, Jiachun, Huang, Shaoping, Jin, Zhuoran, Zhang, Chenlong, Cao, Pengfei, Chen, Yubo, Liu, Kang, Zhao, Jun
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author Li, Jiachun
Huang, Shaoping
Jin, Zhuoran
Zhang, Chenlong
Cao, Pengfei
Chen, Yubo
Liu, Kang
Zhao, Jun
author_facet Li, Jiachun
Huang, Shaoping
Jin, Zhuoran
Zhang, Chenlong
Cao, Pengfei
Chen, Yubo
Liu, Kang
Zhao, Jun
contents Recent progress in the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has empowered them to address more complex tasks such as scientific analysis and mathematical reasoning. Despite their promise, MLLMs' reasoning abilities across different scenarios in real life remain largely unexplored and lack standardized benchmarks for evaluation. To address this gap, we introduce MMR-Life, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate the diverse multimodal multi-image reasoning capabilities of MLLMs across real-life scenarios. MMR-Life consists of 2,646 multiple-choice questions based on 19,108 images primarily sourced from real-world contexts, comprehensively covering seven reasoning types: abductive, analogical, causal, deductive, inductive, spatial, and temporal. Unlike existing reasoning benchmarks, MMR-Life does not rely on domain-specific expertise but instead requires models to integrate information across multiple images and apply diverse reasoning abilities. The evaluation of 37 advanced models highlights the substantial challenge posed by MMR-Life. Even top models like GPT-5 achieve only 58% accuracy and display considerable variance in performance across reasoning types. Moreover, we analyze the reasoning paradigms of existing MLLMs, exploring how factors such as thinking length, reasoning method, and reasoning type affect their performance. In summary, MMR-Life establishes a comprehensive foundation for evaluating, analyzing, and improving the next generation of multimodal reasoning systems.
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spellingShingle MMR-Life: Piecing Together Real-life Scenes for Multimodal Multi-image Reasoning
Li, Jiachun
Huang, Shaoping
Jin, Zhuoran
Zhang, Chenlong
Cao, Pengfei
Chen, Yubo
Liu, Kang
Zhao, Jun
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recent progress in the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has empowered them to address more complex tasks such as scientific analysis and mathematical reasoning. Despite their promise, MLLMs' reasoning abilities across different scenarios in real life remain largely unexplored and lack standardized benchmarks for evaluation. To address this gap, we introduce MMR-Life, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate the diverse multimodal multi-image reasoning capabilities of MLLMs across real-life scenarios. MMR-Life consists of 2,646 multiple-choice questions based on 19,108 images primarily sourced from real-world contexts, comprehensively covering seven reasoning types: abductive, analogical, causal, deductive, inductive, spatial, and temporal. Unlike existing reasoning benchmarks, MMR-Life does not rely on domain-specific expertise but instead requires models to integrate information across multiple images and apply diverse reasoning abilities. The evaluation of 37 advanced models highlights the substantial challenge posed by MMR-Life. Even top models like GPT-5 achieve only 58% accuracy and display considerable variance in performance across reasoning types. Moreover, we analyze the reasoning paradigms of existing MLLMs, exploring how factors such as thinking length, reasoning method, and reasoning type affect their performance. In summary, MMR-Life establishes a comprehensive foundation for evaluating, analyzing, and improving the next generation of multimodal reasoning systems.
title MMR-Life: Piecing Together Real-life Scenes for Multimodal Multi-image Reasoning
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02024