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title = "{B}loom{VQA}: Assessing Hierarchical Multi-modal Comprehension",
author = "Gong, Yunye and
Shrestha, Robik and
Claypoole, Jared and
Cogswell, Michael and
Ray, Arijit and
Kanan, Christopher and
Divakaran, Ajay",
editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and
Martins, Andre and
Srikumar, Vivek",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.885",
pages = "14905--14918",
abstract = "We propose a novel VQA dataset, BloomVQA, to facilitate comprehensive evaluation of large vision-language models on comprehension tasks. Unlike current benchmarks that often focus on fact-based memorization and simple reasoning tasks without theoretical grounding, we collect multiple-choice samples based on picture stories that reflect different levels of comprehension, as laid out in Bloom{'}s Taxonomy, a classic framework for learning assessment widely adopted in education research. Our data maps to a novel hierarchical graph representation which enables automatic data augmentation and novel measures characterizing model consistency. We perform graded evaluation and reliability analysis on recent multi-modal models. In comparison to low-level tasks, we observe decreased performance on tasks requiring advanced comprehension and cognitive skills with up to 38.0{\%} drop in VQA accuracy. In comparison to earlier models, GPT-4V demonstrates improved accuracy over all comprehension levels and also shows a tendency of bypassing visual inputs especially for higher-level tasks. Current models also show consistency patterns misaligned with human comprehension in various scenarios, demonstrating the need for improvement based on theoretically-grounded criteria. The dataset can be accessed at https://huggingface.co/datasets/ygong/BloomVQA.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T BloomVQA: Assessing Hierarchical Multi-modal Comprehension
%A Gong, Yunye
%A Shrestha, Robik
%A Claypoole, Jared
%A Cogswell, Michael
%A Ray, Arijit
%A Kanan, Christopher
%A Divakaran, Ajay
%Y Ku, Lun-Wei
%Y Martins, Andre
%Y Srikumar, Vivek
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
%F gong-etal-2024-bloomvqa
%X We propose a novel VQA dataset, BloomVQA, to facilitate comprehensive evaluation of large vision-language models on comprehension tasks. Unlike current benchmarks that often focus on fact-based memorization and simple reasoning tasks without theoretical grounding, we collect multiple-choice samples based on picture stories that reflect different levels of comprehension, as laid out in Bloom’s Taxonomy, a classic framework for learning assessment widely adopted in education research. Our data maps to a novel hierarchical graph representation which enables automatic data augmentation and novel measures characterizing model consistency. We perform graded evaluation and reliability analysis on recent multi-modal models. In comparison to low-level tasks, we observe decreased performance on tasks requiring advanced comprehension and cognitive skills with up to 38.0% drop in VQA accuracy. In comparison to earlier models, GPT-4V demonstrates improved accuracy over all comprehension levels and also shows a tendency of bypassing visual inputs especially for higher-level tasks. Current models also show consistency patterns misaligned with human comprehension in various scenarios, demonstrating the need for improvement based on theoretically-grounded criteria. The dataset can be accessed at https://huggingface.co/datasets/ygong/BloomVQA.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.885
%P 14905-14918
Markdown (Informal)
[BloomVQA: Assessing Hierarchical Multi-modal Comprehension](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.885) (Gong et al., Findings 2024)
ACL
- Yunye Gong, Robik Shrestha, Jared Claypoole, Michael Cogswell, Arijit Ray, Christopher Kanan, and Ajay Divakaran. 2024. BloomVQA: Assessing Hierarchical Multi-modal Comprehension. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 14905–14918, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.