PRISM: Priority-aware Rubric Internalization via Structured Multimodal Data Synthesis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05249v2
• Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:16:18 GMT
• Title: PRISM: Priority-aware Rubric Internalization via Structured Multimodal Data Synthesis
• Abstract summary: PRISM is a four-stage data synthesis framework that produces persona--task pairs, prefix-guided rule sets, quality-filtered rubrics, and structured verification traces.<n> PRISM-Eval uses deterministic matching against fixed labels and therefore require no inference-time judge model.<n>With only 10K synthesized samples, PRISM lifts Qwen3-VL-4B from 9.5% to 30.1% Strict accuracy on PRISM-Eval while preserving average performance on general benchmarks.
• Score: 7.143155129750046
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Real-world multimodal instructions often bundle multiple requirements with unequal importance, yet most multimodal training data still reduce instruction following to answering one self-contained question. We study this gap through rubric comprehension, which casts the model not as a generator measured against rubrics but as an executor that follows them: given an image and a typed, prioritized rubric, the model must verify each rule before producing an overall judgment. To support this setting, we propose PRISM, a four-stage data synthesis framework that produces persona--task pairs, prefix-guided rule sets, quality-filtered rubrics, and structured verification traces. We further introduce PRISM-Eval, whose Loose and Strict metrics use deterministic matching against fixed labels and therefore require no inference-time judge model. With only 10K synthesized samples, PRISM lifts Qwen3-VL-4B from 9.5% to 30.1% Strict accuracy on PRISM-Eval while preserving average performance on general benchmarks, and the gains transfer to four additional open-source MLLMs across dense and MoE architectures, suggesting that structured rubric supervision is a scalable path toward multi-rule, priority-aware multimodal instruction following.

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