MuirBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robust Multi-image Understanding
Fei Wang Xingyu Fu James Y. Huang Zekun Li Qin Liu Xiaogeng Liu Mingyu Derek Ma Nan Xu Wenxuan Zhou Kai Zhang Tianyi Lorena Yan Wenjie Jacky Mo Hsiang-Hui Liu Pan Lu Chunyuan Li Chaowei Xiao Kai-Wei Chang Dan Roth Sheng Zhang Hoifung Poon et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
We introduce MuirBench, a comprehensive benchmark that focuses on robust multi-image understanding capabilities of multimodal LLMs. MuirBench consists of 12 diverse multi-image tasks (e.g., scene understanding, ordering) that involve 10 categories of multi-image relations (e.g., multiview, temporal relations). Comprising 11,264 images and 2,600 multiple-choice questions, MuirBench is created in a pairwise manner, where each standard instance is paired with an unanswerable variant that has minimal semantic differences, in order for a reliable assessment. Evaluated upon 20 recent multi-modal LLMs, our results reveal that even the best-performing models like GPT-4o and Gemini Pro find it challenging to solve MuirBench, achieving 68.0% and 49.3% in accuracy. Open-source multimodal LLMs trained on single images can hardly generalize to multi-image questions, hovering below 33.3% in accuracy. These results highlight the importance of MuirBench in encouraging the community to develop multimodal LLMs that can look beyond a single image, suggesting potential pathways for future improvements.
Multimodal LLM, Multi-image Understanding, Benchmark, Robustness
We introduce MUIRBENCH, a comprehensive benchmark that focuses on robust multi-image understanding capabilities of multimodal LLMs.