FORGE: Fine-grained Multimodal Evaluation for Manufacturing Scenarios

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Main Authors: Jian, Xiangru, Xu, Hao, Pang, Wei, Zhao, Xinjian, Tao, Chengyu, Zhang, Qixin, Zhang, Xikun, Zhang, Chao, Deng, Guanzhi, Xue, Alex, Du, Juan, Yu, Tianshu, Tarr, Garth, Song, Linqi, Sun, Qiuzhuang, Tao, Dacheng
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author Jian, Xiangru
Xu, Hao
Pang, Wei
Zhao, Xinjian
Tao, Chengyu
Zhang, Qixin
Zhang, Xikun
Zhang, Chao
Deng, Guanzhi
Xue, Alex
Du, Juan
Yu, Tianshu
Tarr, Garth
Song, Linqi
Sun, Qiuzhuang
Tao, Dacheng
author_facet Jian, Xiangru
Xu, Hao
Pang, Wei
Zhao, Xinjian
Tao, Chengyu
Zhang, Qixin
Zhang, Xikun
Zhang, Chao
Deng, Guanzhi
Xue, Alex
Du, Juan
Yu, Tianshu
Tarr, Garth
Song, Linqi
Sun, Qiuzhuang
Tao, Dacheng
contents The manufacturing sector is increasingly adopting Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to transition from simple perception to autonomous execution, yet current evaluations fail to reflect the rigorous demands of real-world manufacturing environments. Progress is hindered by data scarcity and a lack of fine-grained domain semantics in existing datasets. To bridge this gap, we introduce FORGE. Wefirst construct a high-quality multimodal dataset that combines real-world 2D images and 3D point clouds, annotated with fine-grained domain semantics (e.g., exact model numbers). We then evaluate 18 state-of-the-art MLLMs across three manufacturing tasks, namely workpiece verification, structural surface inspection, and assembly verification, revealing significant performance gaps. Counter to conventional understanding, the bottleneck analysis shows that visual grounding is not the primary limiting factor. Instead, insufficient domain-specific knowledge is the key bottleneck, setting a clear direction for future research. Beyond evaluation, we show that our structured annotations can serve as an actionable training resource: supervised fine-tuning of a compact 3B-parameter model on our data yields up to 90.8% relative improvement in accuracy on held-out manufacturing scenarios, providing preliminary evidence for a practical pathway toward domain-adapted manufacturing MLLMs. The code and datasets are available at https://ai4manufacturing.github.io/forge-web.
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spellingShingle FORGE: Fine-grained Multimodal Evaluation for Manufacturing Scenarios
Jian, Xiangru
Xu, Hao
Pang, Wei
Zhao, Xinjian
Tao, Chengyu
Zhang, Qixin
Zhang, Xikun
Zhang, Chao
Deng, Guanzhi
Xue, Alex
Du, Juan
Yu, Tianshu
Tarr, Garth
Song, Linqi
Sun, Qiuzhuang
Tao, Dacheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
The manufacturing sector is increasingly adopting Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to transition from simple perception to autonomous execution, yet current evaluations fail to reflect the rigorous demands of real-world manufacturing environments. Progress is hindered by data scarcity and a lack of fine-grained domain semantics in existing datasets. To bridge this gap, we introduce FORGE. Wefirst construct a high-quality multimodal dataset that combines real-world 2D images and 3D point clouds, annotated with fine-grained domain semantics (e.g., exact model numbers). We then evaluate 18 state-of-the-art MLLMs across three manufacturing tasks, namely workpiece verification, structural surface inspection, and assembly verification, revealing significant performance gaps. Counter to conventional understanding, the bottleneck analysis shows that visual grounding is not the primary limiting factor. Instead, insufficient domain-specific knowledge is the key bottleneck, setting a clear direction for future research. Beyond evaluation, we show that our structured annotations can serve as an actionable training resource: supervised fine-tuning of a compact 3B-parameter model on our data yields up to 90.8% relative improvement in accuracy on held-out manufacturing scenarios, providing preliminary evidence for a practical pathway toward domain-adapted manufacturing MLLMs. The code and datasets are available at https://ai4manufacturing.github.io/forge-web.
title FORGE: Fine-grained Multimodal Evaluation for Manufacturing Scenarios
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07413