MMR-AD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Benchmarking General Anomaly Detection with Multimodal Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Yao, Xincheng, Qian, Zefeng, Shi, Chao, Song, Jiayang, Zhang, Chongyang
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author Yao, Xincheng
Qian, Zefeng
Shi, Chao
Song, Jiayang
Zhang, Chongyang
author_facet Yao, Xincheng
Qian, Zefeng
Shi, Chao
Song, Jiayang
Zhang, Chongyang
contents In the progress of industrial anomaly detection, general anomaly detection (GAD) is an emerging trend and also the ultimate goal. Unlike the conventional single- and multi-class AD, general AD aims to train a general AD model that can directly detect anomalies in diverse novel classes without any retraining or fine-tuning on the target data. Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown great promise in achieving general anomaly detection due to their revolutionary visual understanding and language reasoning capabilities. However, MLLM's general AD ability remains underexplored due to: (1) MLLMs are pretrained on amounts of data sourced from the Web, these data still have significant gaps with the data in AD scenarios. Moreover, the image-text pairs during pretraining are also not specifically for AD tasks. (2) The current mainstream AD datasets are image-based and not yet suitable for post-training MLLMs. To facilitate MLLM-based general AD research, we present MMR-AD, which is a comprehensive benchmark for both training and evaluating MLLM-based AD models. With MMR-AD, we reveal that the AD performance of current SOTA generalist MLLMs still falls far behind the industrial requirements. Based on MMR-AD, we also propose a baseline model, Anomaly-R1, which is a reasoning-based AD model that learns from the CoT data in MMR-AD and is further enhanced by reinforcement learning. Extensive experiments show that our Anomaly-R1 achieves remarkable improvements over generalist MLLMs in both anomaly detection and localization.
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spellingShingle MMR-AD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Benchmarking General Anomaly Detection with Multimodal Large Language Models
Yao, Xincheng
Qian, Zefeng
Shi, Chao
Song, Jiayang
Zhang, Chongyang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
In the progress of industrial anomaly detection, general anomaly detection (GAD) is an emerging trend and also the ultimate goal. Unlike the conventional single- and multi-class AD, general AD aims to train a general AD model that can directly detect anomalies in diverse novel classes without any retraining or fine-tuning on the target data. Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown great promise in achieving general anomaly detection due to their revolutionary visual understanding and language reasoning capabilities. However, MLLM's general AD ability remains underexplored due to: (1) MLLMs are pretrained on amounts of data sourced from the Web, these data still have significant gaps with the data in AD scenarios. Moreover, the image-text pairs during pretraining are also not specifically for AD tasks. (2) The current mainstream AD datasets are image-based and not yet suitable for post-training MLLMs. To facilitate MLLM-based general AD research, we present MMR-AD, which is a comprehensive benchmark for both training and evaluating MLLM-based AD models. With MMR-AD, we reveal that the AD performance of current SOTA generalist MLLMs still falls far behind the industrial requirements. Based on MMR-AD, we also propose a baseline model, Anomaly-R1, which is a reasoning-based AD model that learns from the CoT data in MMR-AD and is further enhanced by reinforcement learning. Extensive experiments show that our Anomaly-R1 achieves remarkable improvements over generalist MLLMs in both anomaly detection and localization.
title MMR-AD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Benchmarking General Anomaly Detection with Multimodal Large Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10971