Equation 4 · Part 1 · The Benchmarks That Don't Need the Image
Symbol M
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M is the quantity selected or evaluated by the optimization written on the right.
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M is the quantity selected or evaluated by the optimization written on the right.
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The first is measurement-time ablation : take an already-trained system, rerun the exact same benchmark items with one channel removed at inference, and compare. This is what the original VQA paper did with its question-only baseline [ 1 ] , and it is what a 2024 audit of vision-language benchmarks did formally, by defining two paired metrics from three separately measured accuracies. Let be a model’s accuracy on a benchmark with the image present, its accuracy on the same items with the image withheld, and the accuracy of that same model’s underlying text-only language backbone, evaluated on its own before any multimodal training touched it. The audit’s two metrics are then…
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- [1] VQA: Visual Question Answering ↗
- [10] Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models? ↗
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