UVLM: A Universal Vision-Language Model Loader for Reproducible Multimodal Benchmarking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13893v1
• Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:07:42 GMT
• Title: UVLM: A Universal Vision-Language Model Loader for Reproducible Multimodal Benchmarking
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces UVLM, a Google Colab-based framework that provides a unified interface for loading,numeric, and benchmarking VLM architectures on custom image analysis tasks.<n>UVLM supports two major model families -- LLaVA-NeXT and Qwen2.5-VL -- which differ fundamentally in their vision encoding, tokenization, and decoding strategies.<n>Key features include a multi-task prompt builder with support for four response types, a consensus validation mechanism based on majority voting, a flexible token budget, and a built-in chain-of-thought reference mode for benchmarking.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for image understanding tasks, yet their practical deployment remains hindered by significant architectural heterogeneity across model families. This paper introduces UVLM (Universal Vision-Language Model Loader), a Google Colab-based framework that provides a unified interface for loading, configuring, and benchmarking multiple VLM architectures on custom image analysis tasks. UVLM currently supports two major model families -- LLaVA-NeXT and Qwen2.5-VL -- which differ fundamentally in their vision encoding, tokenization, and decoding strategies. The framework abstracts these differences behind a single inference function, enabling researchers to compare models using identical prompts and evaluation protocols. Key features include a multi-task prompt builder with support for four response types (numeric, category, boolean, text), a consensus validation mechanism based on majority voting across repeated inferences, a flexible token budget (up to 1,500 tokens) enabling users to design custom reasoning strategies through prompt engineering, and a built-in chain-of-thought reference mode for benchmarking. UVLM is designed for reproducibility, accessibility, and extensibility and as such is freely deployable on Google Colab using consumer-grade GPU resources. The paper also presents the first benchmarking of different VLMs on tasks of increasing reasoning complexity using a corpus of 120 street-view images.

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