MixCount provides a scalable synthetic dataset for mixed-object counting that improves state-of-the-art models on real benchmarks, cutting MAE by 20.14% on FSC-147 and 18.3% on PairTally.
Learning to Count Objects in Natural Images for Visual Question Answering
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Visual Question Answering (VQA) models have struggled with counting objects in natural images so far. We identify a fundamental problem due to soft attention in these models as a cause. To circumvent this problem, we propose a neural network component that allows robust counting from object proposals. Experiments on a toy task show the effectiveness of this component and we obtain state-of-the-art accuracy on the number category of the VQA v2 dataset without negatively affecting other categories, even outperforming ensemble models with our single model. On a difficult balanced pair metric, the component gives a substantial improvement in counting over a strong baseline by 6.6%.
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HoloCount is a three-tier visual counting benchmark showing that MLLMs fail systematically on analytical reasoning, high-density scenes, and linguistic prior conflicts, with even the best models dropping below 50% accuracy on dense counting.
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The MixCount Dataset: Bridging the Data Gap for Open-Vocabulary Object Counting
MixCount provides a scalable synthetic dataset for mixed-object counting that improves state-of-the-art models on real benchmarks, cutting MAE by 20.14% on FSC-147 and 18.3% on PairTally.
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HoloCount: A Holistic Visual Counting Benchmark for MLLMs
HoloCount is a three-tier visual counting benchmark showing that MLLMs fail systematically on analytical reasoning, high-density scenes, and linguistic prior conflicts, with even the best models dropping below 50% accuracy on dense counting.
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Blind-Spots-Bench: Evaluating Blind Spots in Multimodal Models
A 235-item multimodal stress-test shows frontier closed models outpace open-weight peers by ~10% and leaves shared failures on counting, spatial, and character-level tasks.