EXAMS-V: A Multi-Discipline Multilingual Multimodal Exam Benchmark for Evaluating Vision Language Models

TL;DR

EXAMS-V is a comprehensive, multilingual, multimodal exam benchmark with over 20,000 questions across various disciplines, designed to evaluate and challenge vision-language models' reasoning and perception capabilities.

Contribution

It introduces a novel, diverse dataset of multilingual, multimodal exam questions from multiple countries, emphasizing complex reasoning and cross-modal understanding.

Findings

Current models like GPT-4V and Gemini struggle with the dataset.

The dataset covers multiple disciplines and languages, increasing evaluation complexity.

EXAMS-V sets a new standard for benchmarking vision-language reasoning.

Abstract

We introduce EXAMS-V, a new challenging multi-discipline multimodal multilingual exam benchmark for evaluating vision language models. It consists of 20,932 multiple-choice questions across 20 school disciplines covering natural science, social science, and other miscellaneous studies, e.g., religion, fine arts, business, etc. EXAMS-V includes a variety of multimodal features such as text, images, tables, figures, diagrams, maps, scientific symbols, and equations. The questions come in 11 languages from 7 language families. Unlike existing benchmarks, EXAMS-V is uniquely curated by gathering school exam questions from various countries, with a variety of education systems. This distinctive approach calls for intricate reasoning across diverse languages and relies on region-specific knowledge. Solving the problems in the dataset requires advanced perception and joint reasoning over the text and the visual content of the image. Our evaluation results demonstrate that this is a challenging dataset, which is difficult even for advanced vision-text models such as GPT-4V and Gemini; this underscores the inherent complexity of the dataset and its significance as a future benchmark.