GeoSense: Evaluating Identification and Application of Geometric Principles in Multimodal Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12597v1
• Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 02:46:27 GMT
• Title: GeoSense: Evaluating Identification and Application of Geometric Principles in Multimodal Reasoning
• Authors: Liangyu Xu, Yingxiu Zhao, Jingyun Wang, Yingyao Wang, Bu Pi, Chen Wang, Mingliang Zhang, Jihao Gu, Xiang Li, Xiaoyong Zhu, Jun Song, Bo Zheng,
• Abstract summary: Geometry problem-solving (GPS) is a challenging task requiring both visual comprehension and symbolic reasoning.<n>Existing benchmarks fail to jointly assess both dimensions of the human-like geometric reasoning mechanism in large language models.<n>We introduce GeoSense, the first comprehensive bilingual benchmark designed to evaluate the geometric reasoning abilities of MLLMs.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Geometry problem-solving (GPS), a challenging task requiring both visual comprehension and symbolic reasoning, effectively measures the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Humans exhibit strong reasoning ability in this task through accurate identification and adaptive application of geometric principles within visual contexts. However, existing benchmarks fail to jointly assess both dimensions of the human-like geometric reasoning mechanism in MLLMs, remaining a critical gap in assessing their ability to tackle GPS. To this end, we introduce GeoSense, the first comprehensive bilingual benchmark designed to systematically evaluate the geometric reasoning abilities of MLLMs through the lens of geometric principles. GeoSense features a five-level hierarchical framework of geometric principles spanning plane and solid geometry, an intricately annotated dataset of 1,789 problems, and an innovative evaluation strategy. Through extensive experiments on GeoSense with various open-source and closed-source MLLMs, we observe that Gemini-2.0-pro-flash performs best, achieving an overall score of $65.3$. Our in-depth analysis reveals that the identification and application of geometric principles remain a bottleneck for leading MLLMs, jointly hindering their reasoning abilities. These findings underscore GeoSense's potential to guide future advancements in MLLMs' geometric reasoning capabilities, paving the way for more robust and human-like reasoning in artificial intelligence.

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