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arxiv: 2503.23137 · v2 · submitted 2025-03-29 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.CL

When 'YES' Meets 'BUT': Can Large Models Comprehend Contradictory Humor Through Comparative Reasoning?

Tuo Liang , Zhe Hu , Jing Li , Hao Zhang , Yiren Lu , Yunlai Zhou , Yiran Qiao , Disheng Liu
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The pith

Even advanced vision-language models significantly underperform humans when comprehending contradictory humor in comics via comparative reasoning.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper investigates whether large vision-language models can handle humor created by contradictions between comic panels, which demands comparing elements across a narrative. It presents the YesBut (V2) benchmark of 1,262 annotated comic images drawn from multilingual and multicultural sources to measure this capability across four tasks that range from basic content reading to deep comparative analysis. Experiments demonstrate that leading models fall short of human performance, with repeated errors in visual perception, identifying key elements, performing comparisons, and producing hallucinations. The authors also examine text-based training and social knowledge augmentation as potential improvement routes. These results point to gaps in how current models process cultural and creative visual narratives.

Core claim

Current vision-language models cannot reliably comprehend contradictory humor in comics because they lack robust comparative reasoning between contradictory narrative elements, as shown by their consistent underperformance relative to humans on the YesBut (V2) benchmark across surface-level and deep-reasoning tasks, accompanied by failures in visual perception, key element identification, comparative analysis, and hallucinations.

What carries the argument

The YesBut (V2) benchmark of 1,262 comic images with annotations for narrative understanding and four complementary tasks that test progression from surface content to comparative reasoning on contradictions.

If this is right

  • Text-based training strategies can raise model performance on contradictory humor tasks.
  • Social knowledge augmentation improves model handling of cultural contradictions in comics.
  • Persistent model weaknesses in visual perception and comparative analysis limit AI engagement with creative visual narratives.
  • Addressing these gaps would support development of context-aware models for deeper narrative understanding.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The benchmark results imply that standard VLM training may undervalue relational comparison across image panels.
  • Similar evaluation setups could be applied to test model understanding of contradictions in other visual media such as film or illustration sequences.
  • Improved comparative reasoning in VLMs might transfer to non-humor tasks that require detecting inconsistencies in visual stories.

Load-bearing premise

The annotations supplied with the YesBut (V2) benchmark accurately and consistently capture the narrative understanding and comparative reasoning demands of contradictory humor in the selected comics.

What would settle it

Demonstrating that one or more state-of-the-art VLMs reach or exceed human accuracy levels across all four tasks on the full YesBut (V2) set would falsify the claim of significant underperformance.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2503.23137 by Disheng Liu, Hao Zhang, Jeirui Peng, Jing Li, Jing Ma, Tuo Liang, Yiran Qiao, Yiren Lu, Yunlai Zhou, Yu Yin, Zhe Hu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: We introduce the YESBUT (V2), a benchmark for assessing AI’s ability to interpret juxtaposed comic panels with contradictory narratives. Unlike existing benchmarks, it emphasizes visual understanding, comparative reasoning, and social knowledge. To capture the layered reasoning required for interpreting these contradictions, we design multi-tiered tasks—ranging from basic content recognition to deep narrat… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the Data Construction Pipeline. The dataset construction begins with manually [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Distribution of the original 1,264 comics downloaded from social media based on different aspects, including [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Human performance on deep reasoning tasks. 0 1.25 2.5 3.75 5 Correctness Textual Completenness Faithfulness 2.27 2.34 2.44 2.81 2.93 2.82 2.99 3.17 2.89 4.75 4.72 4.59 4.40 4.41 4.21 Qwen2-VL-72B GPT-4o LLaVA-OneVision-72B LLaVA-Next-13B LLaVA-1.5-13B Correctness Faithfulness 2.232.16 2.252.21 2.47 2.42 4.63 4.46 4.46 4.07 0 25 50 75 100 GPT-4o Human 97.5 66.9 80.6 91.3 70.4 80.4 Underlying Symbolism Acc T… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: LLMs’ performance on deep reasoning tasks using [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of VLM deep reasoning performance in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Model performance on deep reasoning tasks with and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: A sample comic that requires additional social knowl [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Sample outputs of model-generated literal descriptions with highlighted errors of different types. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: The impact of external social knowledge. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Prompts for Data Annotation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Sample Comic with All Annotated Tasks. APPENDIX C EXPERIMENTS DETAILS C.1 Model Details Our experiments include both cutting-edge proprietary and open-source VLMs and LLMs, enabling a comprehen￾sive evaluation across diverse architectures. For commer￾cial VLMs, we use GPT-4o (gpt-4o-2024-08-06) and GPT-4- Vision-turbo (gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09) 3 . Among open-source VLMs, our selection includes LLaVA-Next, … view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Prompts used for Data Generation. For literal description writing, we evaluate all three aspects, while for contradiction generation, only correctness and faithfulness are assessed. C.4 Model Finetuning Details for Deep Reasoning Tasks Our approach employs a weakly supervised textual data synthesis pipeline using powerful LLMs, such as GPT-4o, as a data generator. Instead of relying on paired image-text d… view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Prompts for GPT-based Evaluations compute ROUGE score, and calculate the BERT score using the official implementation 6 . For GPT based evaluations for literal description and contradiction, we use gpt-3.5-turbo￾0125 version. The prompts we used are shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Sample outputs of model generated literal description and contradiction. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Sample outputs of model generated literal description and contradiction. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_17.png] view at source ↗
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Understanding humor-particularly when it involves complex, contradictory narratives that require comparative reasoning-remains a significant challenge for large vision-language models (VLMs). This limitation hinders AI's ability to engage in human-like reasoning and cultural expression. In this paper, we investigate this challenge through an in-depth analysis of comics that juxtapose panels to create humor through contradictions. We introduce the YesBut (V2), a novel benchmark with 1,262 comic images from diverse multilingual and multicultural contexts, featuring comprehensive annotations that capture various aspects of narrative understanding. Using this benchmark, we systematically evaluate a wide range of VLMs through four complementary tasks spanning from surface content comprehension to deep narrative reasoning, with particular emphasis on comparative reasoning between contradictory elements. Our extensive experiments reveal that even the most advanced models significantly underperform compared to humans, with common failures in visual perception, key element identification, comparative analysis and hallucinations. We further investigate text-based training strategies and social knowledge augmentation methods to enhance model performance. Our findings not only highlight critical weaknesses in VLMs' understanding of cultural and creative expressions but also provide pathways toward developing context-aware models capable of deeper narrative understanding though comparative reasoning.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that even advanced vision-language models significantly underperform humans on understanding contradictory humor in comics, which requires comparative reasoning between juxtaposed panels. It introduces the YesBut (V2) benchmark of 1,262 multilingual comics with annotations for narrative understanding, evaluates VLMs across four tasks from surface comprehension to deep comparative reasoning, documents failures in perception, element identification, comparison, and hallucinations, and tests text-based training plus social knowledge augmentation as mitigation strategies.

Significance. If the benchmark annotations reliably proxy the targeted reasoning, the work would demonstrate important gaps in VLMs for culturally nuanced narrative tasks and supply a new multilingual resource plus improvement pathways. The multilingual comic collection and explicit investigation of augmentation methods are clear strengths that could support follow-on research in vision-language reasoning.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (YesBut (V2) benchmark construction): the central claim that VLMs underperform due to failures in comparative reasoning depends on the annotations faithfully capturing narrative and comparative demands. The manuscript states that the annotations are 'comprehensive' but supplies no annotation protocol, inter-annotator agreement statistics, adjudication procedure for contradictory elements, or external validation against human reasoning traces. This is load-bearing; without it, the reported model failures cannot be distinguished from possible benchmark artifacts.
  2. [§4] §4 (experimental evaluation): the reported performance gaps versus humans and the listed failure modes (visual perception, key element identification, comparative analysis, hallucinations) are presented without per-task quantitative breakdowns, statistical significance tests, confidence intervals, or details on human baseline collection. These omissions prevent assessment of whether the underperformance conclusion is robust across the four tasks.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract lists four complementary tasks but does not name or briefly characterize them; adding one sentence would improve accessibility.
  2. Figure and table captions should explicitly link each visual or numeric result to the specific task and metric being measured.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to incorporate additional details where the concerns are valid.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (YesBut (V2) benchmark construction): the central claim that VLMs underperform due to failures in comparative reasoning depends on the annotations faithfully capturing narrative and comparative demands. The manuscript states that the annotations are 'comprehensive' but supplies no annotation protocol, inter-annotator agreement statistics, adjudication procedure for contradictory elements, or external validation against human reasoning traces. This is load-bearing; without it, the reported model failures cannot be distinguished from possible benchmark artifacts.

    Authors: We agree that the original manuscript would have been strengthened by an explicit description of the annotation process. In the revised version, we have expanded Section 3 with a dedicated subsection on benchmark construction that details the annotation protocol (including guidelines for identifying contradictory narrative elements), reports inter-annotator agreement statistics, describes the adjudication procedure used to resolve disagreements, and presents results from an external validation study comparing the annotations against independent human reasoning traces. These additions directly substantiate the reliability of the benchmark for the comparative-reasoning claims. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (experimental evaluation): the reported performance gaps versus humans and the listed failure modes (visual perception, key element identification, comparative analysis, hallucinations) are presented without per-task quantitative breakdowns, statistical significance tests, confidence intervals, or details on human baseline collection. These omissions prevent assessment of whether the underperformance conclusion is robust across the four tasks.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the experimental reporting in the original manuscript lacked sufficient granularity. The revised manuscript now includes per-task quantitative breakdowns for all four tasks, reports statistical significance tests on the performance gaps, provides confidence intervals for key metrics, and adds a detailed account of human baseline collection (participant count, instructions, and inter-human agreement). These changes allow readers to evaluate the robustness of the underperformance findings across tasks. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical benchmark evaluation is self-contained

full rationale

The paper introduces the new YesBut (V2) benchmark with 1,262 comics and four tasks, then reports empirical VLM vs. human performance on those tasks. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivations are present. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems or ansatzes. The central claim (VLMs underperform on contradictory humor) rests on direct evaluation against the newly collected and annotated data rather than reducing to any prior author work or self-defined quantities by construction. This is the standard non-circular case for a benchmark paper.

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Review conducted from abstract alone; no free parameters, invented entities, or additional axioms are visible beyond the domain assumption that benchmark annotations faithfully represent the target reasoning.

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  • domain assumption The annotations in YesBut (V2) accurately capture narrative understanding and comparative reasoning requirements for contradictory humor.
    The paper's evaluation tasks and performance claims rest on the quality and validity of these annotations.

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