WebQuest: A Benchmark for Multimodal QA on Web Page Sequences

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13711v2
• Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:38:02 GMT
• Title: WebQuest: A Benchmark for Multimodal QA on Web Page Sequences
• Authors: Maria Wang, Srinivas Sunkara, Gilles Baechler, Jason Lin, Yun Zhu, Fedir Zubach, Lei Shu, Jindong Chen,
• Abstract summary: WebQuest is a multi-page question-answering dataset that requires reasoning across multiple web pages. Our dataset evaluates information extraction, multimodal retrieval and composition of information from many web pages. We evaluate leading proprietary multimodal models like GPT-4V, Gemini Flash, Claude 3, and open source models like InstructBLIP, PaliGemma on our dataset.
• Score: 10.008284460456107
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The rise of powerful multimodal LLMs has enhanced the viability of building web agents which can, with increasing levels of autonomy, assist users to retrieve information and complete tasks on various human-computer interfaces. It is hence necessary to build challenging benchmarks that span a wide-variety of use cases reflecting real-world usage. In this work, we present WebQuest, a multi-page question-answering dataset that requires reasoning across multiple related web pages. In contrast to existing UI benchmarks that focus on multi-step web navigation and task completion, our dataset evaluates information extraction, multimodal retrieval and composition of information from many web pages. WebQuest includes three question categories: single-screen QA, multi-screen QA, and QA based on navigation traces. We evaluate leading proprietary multimodal models like GPT-4V, Gemini Flash, Claude 3, and open source models like InstructBLIP, PaliGemma on our dataset, revealing a significant gap between single-screen and multi-screen reasoning. Finally, we investigate inference time techniques like Chain-of-Thought prompting to improve model capabilities on multi-screen reasoning.

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