VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16176v1
• Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:53:57 GMT
• Title: VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images
• Authors: M. Maruf, Arka Daw, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Harish Babu Manogaran, Abhilash Neog, Medha Sawhney, Mridul Khurana, James P. Balhoff, Yasin Bakis, Bahadir Altintas, Matthew J. Thompson, Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Josef C. Uyeda, Hilmar Lapp, Henry L. Bart, Paula M. Mabee, Yu Su, Wei-Lun Chao, Charles Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Wasila Dahdul, Anuj Karpatne,
• Abstract summary: We evaluate the effectiveness of 12 state-of-the-art (SOTA) VLMs in the field of organismal biology using a novel dataset, VLM4Bio. We also explore the effects of applying prompting techniques and tests for reasoning hallucination on the performance of VLMs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Images are increasingly becoming the currency for documenting biodiversity on the planet, providing novel opportunities for accelerating scientific discoveries in the field of organismal biology, especially with the advent of large vision-language models (VLMs). We ask if pre-trained VLMs can aid scientists in answering a range of biologically relevant questions without any additional fine-tuning. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of 12 state-of-the-art (SOTA) VLMs in the field of organismal biology using a novel dataset, VLM4Bio, consisting of 469K question-answer pairs involving 30K images from three groups of organisms: fishes, birds, and butterflies, covering five biologically relevant tasks. We also explore the effects of applying prompting techniques and tests for reasoning hallucination on the performance of VLMs, shedding new light on the capabilities of current SOTA VLMs in answering biologically relevant questions using images. The code and datasets for running all the analyses reported in this paper can be found at https://github.com/sammarfy/VLM4Bio.

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