FMBench: Benchmarking Fairness in Multimodal Large Language Models on Medical Tasks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01089v1
• Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 21:38:15 GMT
• Title: FMBench: Benchmarking Fairness in Multimodal Large Language Models on Medical Tasks
• Authors: Peiran Wu, Che Liu, Canyu Chen, Jun Li, Cosmin I. Bercea, Rossella Arcucci,
• Abstract summary: We propose FMBench, the first benchmark designed to evaluate the fairness of MLLMs performance across diverse demographic attributes. We thoroughly evaluate the performance and fairness of eight state-of-the-art open-source MLLMs, including both general and medical. All data and code will be released upon acceptance.
• Score: 11.094602017349928
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved medical task performance, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) and Report Generation (RG). However, the fairness of these models across diverse demographic groups remains underexplored, despite its importance in healthcare. This oversight is partly due to the lack of demographic diversity in existing medical multimodal datasets, which complicates the evaluation of fairness. In response, we propose FMBench, the first benchmark designed to evaluate the fairness of MLLMs performance across diverse demographic attributes. FMBench has the following key features: 1: It includes four demographic attributes: race, ethnicity, language, and gender, across two tasks, VQA and RG, under zero-shot settings. 2: Our VQA task is free-form, enhancing real-world applicability and mitigating the biases associated with predefined choices. 3: We utilize both lexical metrics and LLM-based metrics, aligned with clinical evaluations, to assess models not only for linguistic accuracy but also from a clinical perspective. Furthermore, we introduce a new metric, Fairness-Aware Performance (FAP), to evaluate how fairly MLLMs perform across various demographic attributes. We thoroughly evaluate the performance and fairness of eight state-of-the-art open-source MLLMs, including both general and medical MLLMs, ranging from 7B to 26B parameters on the proposed benchmark. We aim for FMBench to assist the research community in refining model evaluation and driving future advancements in the field. All data and code will be released upon acceptance.

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