A new dynamic benchmark using real field-collected images of rare insects shows frontier vision-language models are strong at coarse taxonomic classification but nearly fail at species-level identification and are inconsistent at abstaining on novel species.
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TerraIncognita: A Dynamic Benchmark for Species Discovery Using Frontier Models
A new dynamic benchmark using real field-collected images of rare insects shows frontier vision-language models are strong at coarse taxonomic classification but nearly fail at species-level identification and are inconsistent at abstaining on novel species.