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TRACE-Bench: Decomposing and Diagnosing Multi-Reference Image Generation

arXiv:2608. 16765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite recent advances in unified multimodal models for multi-reference image generation, existing benchmarks remain organized around predefined task types (e.

arXiv AI
Sep 28

Beyond Bag-of-Words: Diagnosing Compositional Binding Failures in Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces Auto-Comp, a fully automated, concept-driven pipeline that generates photorealistic compositional benchmarks for vision‑language models. Auto‑Comp creates paired Minimal and Contextual samples for each concept, enabling isolation of core binding abilities from visio‑linguistic complexity. Evaluations across 25 models reveal consistent failures in attribute and relational binding, with context helping relational tasks but hindering attribute tasks due to visual clutter.

By Cristian Sbrolli, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Matteo Matteucci
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Imag-Eval: a language-grounded framework for interpretable Text-to-Image instruction following evaluation

Imag‑Eval is a new language‑grounded benchmark for evaluating Text‑to‑Image models, focusing on how well they follow compositional natural‑language instructions. It disentangles prompt length from compositional difficulty by independently varying the number of instances and the combination of constraints (rules), providing 1,140 prompts and 8,842 rule combinations. The study shows that for structured skills, the difficulty is mainly driven by the number of grounded rules and their binding to instances rather than prompt length alone.

By Ibrahim Mohamed Serouis, David Jaramillo Duque
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

Diagnosing the Sources of Compositional Failure in Vision-Language Models: A Controlled Analysis

arXiv:2609.31456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) often struggle with compositional reasoning tasks, but the reasons for this underperformance remain unclear. A common hyp...

By Mona Gandhi, Cenk Merih Olcay, Kuan-Chieh Lo, Santiago Castro, Christopher W. Myers, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

WOVEN: Weaving Visual World Modeling into Multimodal LLMs

WOVEN is a new training source and benchmark for visual transition reasoning, comprising 36,076 examples across 20 scenes, 5 actions, and 8 reasoning types. The study shows that current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have a systematic deficit in spatial, embodied, physical, and temporal reasoning, and that training on WOVEN improves performance on 22 of 26 external benchmarks by up to 27.3 percentage points. The authors also provide a training recipe that prioritizes reasoning operations and larger visual changes for robust visual world modeling.

By Zheyu Fan, Yue Zhang, Mingkai Deng, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Canyu Chen, Jie Hao, Xing Fan, Chenlei Guo, Eric P. Xing, Mohit Bansal, Manling Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

CCRV-Bench: Constraint-Based Evaluation of Causal Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

CCRV-Bench is a constraint‑driven benchmark designed to evaluate visual causal reasoning in vision‑language models on single‑image physical scenarios. It assesses four causal task dimensions—causal relation discovery, state prediction, causal diagnosis, and intervention—while applying constraints such as entity symbolization, spatial grounding, factual adversarial constraints, and minimalist output constraints to reduce shortcut learning. Experiments on 15 multimodal models reveal that constraint sensitivity varies by task and model, with intervention and spatial grounding having the largest impact and factual adversarial constraints improving causal diagnosis across models.

By Linyuan Gao, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

The Plan, Not the Decoder: Diagnosing and Repairing Compositional Failure in Reasoning-Augmented Text-to-Image Generation

The paper investigates why reasoning‑augmented text‑to‑image models like GoT‑R1 sometimes fail on compositional prompts. By separating the explicit textual plan from the decoder, the authors show that the decoder faithfully executes the plan while the planner often writes incorrect spatial relations, especially for phrasing‑dependent cues. Editing or replacing the plan improves image quality without retraining, demonstrating the viability of modular planner‑decoder architectures.

By Ashritha Gonuguntla
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

CogCanvas: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multi-Subject Reference-Based Image Generation

CogCanvas is a new benchmark for multi-subject reference-based image generation, featuring 1,952 curated reference images of 100 celebrities, 115 objects/fashion items, and 29 real-world backgrounds. It generates 1,361 compositional prompts with 2–5 people, using a pipeline that includes DINOv2 deduplication, aesthetic filtering, and automated graph derivation for interaction and positioning. The benchmark evaluates three tasks—reference-based multi-human-object generation, text-to-image compositional generation, and reference retrieval—under a six-axis protocol, and introduces BG‑Sim and Attr‑VQA metrics to assess background fidelity and attribute binding.

By Long-Bao Nguyen, Quang-Khai Le, Tam V. Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran, Trung-Nghia Le
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

Retrieved Images as Visual Thought: Training-Free Multimodal In-Context Learning for the Open-vs-Closed Gap

ReVisIT is a train‑free framework that turns retrieved image‑label pairs into units of visual thought, combining structured class definitions, multimodal retrieval, and alternating user/assistant injection before joint decoding. On several benchmarks—including Fast Open MiniImageNet, Bongard‑OpenWorld, and the newly released MAAC‑Bench—ReVisIT achieves performance comparable to or surpassing large, trained models while using far fewer parameters. The approach demonstrates that high‑quality retrieval and a simple turns layer can provide a universal performance boost across diverse multimodal tasks.

By Bingchen Huang, Zhiling Wang, Yifu Chen, Yuanchao Du