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Automated Generation of Challenging Multiple-Choice Questions for Vision Language Model Evaluation

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arxiv 2501.03225 v2 pith:M7VCQ5V3 submitted 2025-01-06 cs.CV cs.AIcs.CLcs.CYcs.LG

classification cs.CVcs.AIcs.CLcs.CYcs.LG
keywords questionsevaluationmultiple-choiceautoconverterlanguagevlmschallengingformat
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The rapid development of vision language models (VLMs) demands rigorous and reliable evaluation. However, current visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks often depend on open-ended questions, making accurate evaluation difficult due to the variability in natural language responses. To address this, we introduce AutoConverter, an agentic framework that automatically converts these open-ended questions into multiple-choice format, enabling objective evaluation while reducing the costly multiple-choice question creation process. Our experiments demonstrate that AutoConverter can generate correct and challenging multiple-choice questions, with VLMs demonstrating consistently similar or lower accuracy on these questions compared to human-created ones. Using AutoConverter, we construct VMCBench, a benchmark created by transforming 20 existing VQA datasets into a unified multiple-choice format, totaling 9,018 questions. We comprehensively evaluate 33 state-of-the-art VLMs on VMCBench, setting a new standard for scalable, consistent, and reproducible VLM evaluation.

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