MMCOMPOSITION: Revisiting the Compositionality of Pre-trained Vision-Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09733v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 05:35:09 GMT
• Title: MMCOMPOSITION: Revisiting the Compositionality of Pre-trained Vision-Language Models
• Authors: Hang Hua, Yunlong Tang, Ziyun Zeng, Liangliang Cao, Zhengyuan Yang, Hangfeng He, Chenliang Xu, Jiebo Luo,
• Abstract summary: We propose MMCOMPOSITION, a novel human-annotated benchmark for comprehensively and accurately evaluating Vision-Language Models. We find GPT-4o's compositionality inferior to the best open-source model, and we analyze the underlying reasons.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The advent of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has significantly advanced multimodal understanding, enabling more sophisticated and accurate integration of visual and textual information across various tasks, including image and video captioning, visual question answering, and cross-modal retrieval. Despite VLMs' superior capabilities, researchers lack a comprehensive understanding of their compositionality -- the ability to understand and produce novel combinations of known visual and textual components. Prior benchmarks provide only a relatively rough compositionality evaluation from the perspectives of objects, relations, and attributes while neglecting deeper reasoning about object interactions, counting, and complex compositions. However, compositionality is a critical ability that facilitates coherent reasoning and understanding across modalities for VLMs. To address this limitation, we propose MMCOMPOSITION, a novel human-annotated benchmark for comprehensively and accurately evaluating VLMs' compositionality. Our proposed benchmark serves as a complement to these earlier works. With MMCOMPOSITION, we can quantify and explore the compositionality of the mainstream VLMs. Surprisingly, we find GPT-4o's compositionality inferior to the best open-source model, and we analyze the underlying reasons. Our experimental analysis reveals the limitations of VLMs in fine-grained compositional perception and reasoning, and points to areas for improvement in VLM design and training. Resources available at: https://hanghuacs.github.io/MMComposition/

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