Beyond Perception: Evaluating Abstract Visual Reasoning through Multi-Stage Task (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing AVR benchmarks focus on single-step reasoning, emphasizing the end result but neglecting the multi-stage nature of reasoning process. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-stage AVR benchmark based on RAVEN to assess reasoning across varying levels of complexity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed metric considers the correctness of intermediate steps in addition to the final outcomes. |
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