A Cognitive Evaluation Benchmark of Image Reasoning and Description for Large Vision-Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are hardly comprehensively evaluated for their cognitive abilities. |
| Approach: | They propose to evaluate high-level cognitive abilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) using images with rich semantics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation benchmark consists of 251 images along with comprehensive annotations. |
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