arXiv AI

Can MLLMs Decode the Creative Leap? Introducing C4 for Cross-Concept Understanding

arXiv:2608. 06501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Creative capabilities of MLLMs matter in design, communication, education, and human--AI collaboration, yet remain difficult to evaluate because explicit targets and reward signals are scarce compared with accuracy-oriented tasks.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

CresOWLve: Benchmarking Creative Problem-Solving Over Real-World Knowledge

arXiv:2604. 03374v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Creative problem-solving requires combining multiple cognitive abilities, including logical reasoning, lateral thinking, analogy-making, and commonsense knowledge, to discover insights that connect seemingly unrelated pieces of information.

By Mete Ismayilzada, Renqing Cuomao, Daniil Yurshevich, Anna Sotnikova, Lonneke van der Plas, Antoine Bosselut
arXiv AI
Jun 30

MuseBench: Benchmarking Intent-Level Audiovisual Arts Understanding in MLLMs

arXiv:2606. 30026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audiovisual arts encompass diverse creative disciplines, including cinema, visual arts, stage performance, and game design, where artistic meaning arises from deliberate combinations of visual, auditory, and narrative elements (e.

By Yuxuan Fan, Gyusik Seo, Jing Hao, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal, Jaehong Yoon
arXiv AI
Aug 12

HSSBench: Benchmarking Humanities and Social Sciences Ability for Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2506. 03922v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential to advance a broad range of domains.

By Zhaolu Kang, Junhao Gong, Jiaxu Yan, Wanke Xia, Yian Wang, Ziwen Wang, Huaxuan Ding, Zhuo Cheng, Wenhao Cao, Zhiyuan Feng, Siqi He, Shannan Yan, Junzhe Chen, Xiaomin He, Chaoya Jiang, Wei Ye, Kaidong Yu, Xuelong Li
arXiv AI
Jun 11

MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery

arXiv:2602. 02465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier models are transitioning from multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that merely ingest visual information to unified multimodal models (UMMs) capable of native interleaved generation.

By Jana Zeller, Thadd\"aus Wiedemer, Fanfei Li, Thomas Klein, Prasanna Mayilvahanan, Matthias Bethge, Felix Wichmann, Ryan Cotterell, Wieland Brendel