NL-Eye: Abductive NLI for Images
<|reference_start|>NL-Eye: Abductive NLI for Images: Will a Visual Language Model (VLM)-based bot warn us about slipping if it detects a wet floor? Recent VLMs have demonstrated impressive capabilities, yet their ability to infer outcomes and causes remains underexplored. To address this, we introduce NL-Eye, a benchmark designed to assess VLMs' visual abductive reasoning skills. NL-Eye adapts the abductive Natural Language Inference (NLI) task to the visual domain, requiring models to evaluate the plausibility of hypothesis images based on a premise image and explain their decisions. NL-Eye consists of 350 carefully curated triplet examples (1,050 images) spanning diverse reasoning categories: physical, functional, logical, emotional, cultural, and social. The data curation process involved two steps - writing textual descriptions and generating images using text-to-image models, both requiring substantial human involvement to ensure high-quality and challenging scenes. Our experiments show that VLMs struggle significantly on NL-Eye, often performing at random baseline levels, while humans excel in both plausibility prediction and explanation quality. This demonstrates a deficiency in the abductive reasoning capabilities of modern VLMs. NL-Eye represents a crucial step toward developing VLMs capable of robust multimodal reasoning for real-world applications, including accident-prevention bots and generated video verification.<|reference_end|>
@article{ventura2024nl-eye:,
    title={NL-Eye: Abductive NLI for Images},
    author={Mor Ventura, Michael Toker, Nitay Calderon, Zorik Gekhman, Yonatan
  Bitton, Roi Reichart},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.02613},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2410.02613},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.AI cs.CL}
}