VLMEvalKit: An Open-Source Toolkit for Evaluating Large Multi-Modality Models
<|reference_start|>VLMEvalKit: An Open-Source Toolkit for Evaluating Large Multi-Modality Models: We present VLMEvalKit: an open-source toolkit for evaluating large multi-modality models based on PyTorch. The toolkit aims to provide a user-friendly and comprehensive framework for researchers and developers to evaluate existing multi-modality models and publish reproducible evaluation results. In VLMEvalKit, we implement over 70 different large multi-modality models, including both proprietary APIs and open-source models, as well as more than 20 different multi-modal benchmarks. By implementing a single interface, new models can be easily added to the toolkit, while the toolkit automatically handles the remaining workloads, including data preparation, distributed inference, prediction post-processing, and metric calculation. Although the toolkit is currently mainly used for evaluating large vision-language models, its design is compatible with future updates that incorporate additional modalities, such as audio and video. Based on the evaluation results obtained with the toolkit, we host OpenVLM Leaderboard, a comprehensive leaderboard to track the progress of multi-modality learning research. The toolkit is released at https://github.com/open-compass/VLMEvalKit and is actively maintained.<|reference_end|>
@article{duan2024vlmevalkit:,
    title={VLMEvalKit: An Open-Source Toolkit for Evaluating Large Multi-Modality
  Models},
    author={Haodong Duan, Junming Yang, Yuxuan Qiao, Xinyu Fang, Lin Chen, Yuan
  Liu, Amit Agarwal, Zhe Chen, Mo Li, Yubo Ma, Hailong Sun, Xiangyu Zhao, Junbo
  Cui, Xiaoyi Dong, Yuhang Zang, Pan Zhang, Jiaqi Wang, Dahua Lin, Kai Chen},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11691},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.11691},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}