Zhaolu Kang


2024

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CODIS: Benchmarking Context-dependent Visual Comprehension for Multimodal Large Language Models
Fuwen Luo | Chi Chen | Zihao Wan | Zhaolu Kang | Qidong Yan | Yingjie Li | Xiaolong Wang | Siyu Wang | Ziyue Wang | Xiaoyue Mi | Peng Li | Ning Ma | Maosong Sun | Yang Liu
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promising results in a variety of tasks that combine vision and language. As these models become more integral to research and applications, conducting comprehensive evaluations of their capabilities has grown increasingly important. However, most existing benchmarks fail to consider that, in certain situations, images need to be interpreted within a broader context. In this work, we introduce a new benchmark, named as CODIS, designed to assess the ability of models to use context provided in free-form text to enhance visual comprehension. Our findings indicate that MLLMs consistently fall short of human performance on this benchmark. Further analysis confirms that these models struggle to effectively extract and utilize contextual information to improve their understanding of images. This underscores the pressing need to enhance the ability of MLLMs to comprehend visuals in a context-dependent manner.