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New benchmark RefBench-PRO evaluates MLLM perception and reasoning

Researchers have introduced RefBench-PRO, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the perceptual and reasoning capabilities of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in Referring Expression Comprehension (REC). This benchmark decomposes REC into perception and reasoning dimensions across six challenging tasks, addressing the limitations of existing benchmarks that primarily focus on perceptual abilities. A novel automated data-generation pipeline and an RL-based learning scheme called Ref-R1 were also developed to enhance localization accuracy and provide a stronger baseline for REC. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could lead to more robust evaluation of multi-modal models, driving progress in visual-language understanding.

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New benchmark RefBench-PRO evaluates MLLM perception and reasoning

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Tianyi Gao, Hao Li, Han Fang, Xin Wei, Xiaodong Dong, Hongbo Sun, Ye Yuan, Zhongjiang He, Jinglin Xu, Jingmin Xin, Hao Sun ·

    RefBench-PRO: Perceptual and Reasoning Oriented Benchmark for Referring Expression Comprehension

    arXiv:2512.06276v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a vision-language task that localizes a specific image region based on a textual description. Existing REC benchmarks primarily evaluate perceptual capabilities and lack interpre…