MUCAR: Benchmarking Multilingual Cross-Modal Ambiguity Resolution for Multimodal Large Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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Xiaolong Wang, Zhaolu Kang, Wangyuxuan Zhai, Xinyue Lou, Yunghwei Lai, Ziyue Wang, Yawen Wang, Kaiyu Huang, Yile Wang, Peng Li, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Existing multimodal benchmarks overlook linguistic and visual ambiguities, authors say . ambiguity resolution between modalities is lacking in multimodal large language models . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate multimodal ambiguity resolution across multilingual and cross-modal scenarios. |
| Outcome: | a new benchmark evaluates multimodal ambiguity resolution across multilingual and cross-modal scenarios . the benchmark shows that MLLMs can resolve ambiguities in image-text alignment . however, existing benchmarks often overlook linguistic and visual ambiguties . |
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