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New OmniMapBench benchmark challenges LVLMs with visual-centric map reasoning

Researchers have introduced OmniMapBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the visual-centric reasoning capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). This benchmark addresses a limitation in existing datasets where visual information can often be reduced to text, thus not truly testing visual grounding. OmniMapBench features 2,096 question-answer pairs across 1,603 map documents and introduces the Visual Dependency Index (VDI) to quantify the irreducibility of visual reasoning. Initial evaluations on 25 leading LVLMs revealed a significant performance gap, with the top model achieving only 75.03% accuracy, highlighting the challenges for current LVLMs in this domain. AI

IMPACT This benchmark aims to drive progress in LVLM visual reasoning, potentially leading to more capable AI systems for interpreting complex visual documents.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic benchmark and research paper published on arXiv.

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New OmniMapBench benchmark challenges LVLMs with visual-centric map reasoning

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yang Chen, Yunwen Li, Yufan Shen, Minghao Liu, Tianyu Zheng, Bin Fu, Qunshu Lin, Zhi Yu, Botian Shi ·

    OmniMapBench: Benchmarking Visual-Centric Reasoning on Diverse Map Documents

    arXiv:2607.09068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in LVLMs necessitate robust benchmarks for complex, visually grounded reasoning. A critical limitation is identified in many document understanding benchmarks: visual content is often reducible to text, enablin…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Botian Shi ·

    OmniMapBench: Benchmarking Visual-Centric Reasoning on Diverse Map Documents

    Recent advancements in LVLMs necessitate robust benchmarks for complex, visually grounded reasoning. A critical limitation is identified in many document understanding benchmarks: visual content is often reducible to text, enabling high performance without genuine visual groundin…