Summary of Blocks As Probes: Dissecting Categorization Ability Of Large Multimodal Models, by Bin Fu and Qiyang Wan and Jialin Li and Ruiping Wang and Xilin Chen
Blocks as Probes: Dissecting Categorization Ability of Large Multimodal Models
by Bin Fu, Qiyang Wan, Jialin Li, Ruiping Wang, Xilin Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel benchmark called ComBo to evaluate the categorization ability of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in computer vision. Categorization is a fundamental cognitive process that organizes objects based on common features, essential to both human cognition and computer vision. The authors aim to fill the gap in evaluating LMMs’ most basic categorization ability by developing ComBo, which disentangles category learning from use. ComBo provides an efficient evaluation framework that covers the entire categorization process, enabling researchers to assess LMMs’ performance in various aspects, including fine-grained perception of spatial relationships and abstract category understanding. Results show that while LMMs exhibit acceptable generalization ability, they still lag behind humans in several ways. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper is about how well artificial intelligence (AI) models can categorize objects based on their features. Categorizing objects is a basic human ability that helps us understand and make sense of the world. The authors created a new way to test AI models’ ability to categorize, called ComBo. They want to know how well these models do when learning about new categories and using them in different situations. The results show that while AI models are good at generalizing what they’ve learned, they’re not as good as humans at understanding the relationships between objects and recognizing abstract categories. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generalization
