arXiv AI By Mengyan Wang, Jiyuan An, Yining Liu, YaoWen Zhang, Liner Yang ang Erhong Yang

ACVA-Bench: Beyond Prompt Following in Abstract Concept Visualization Ability for Text-to-Image Models

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The paper introduces ACVA-Bench, a benchmark designed to evaluate text‑to‑image models on their ability to visualize abstract concepts—those without fixed visual referents—across three dimensions: semantic sufficiency, representational diversity, and conceptual distinctiveness. It proposes a fine‑grained visual‑semantic evaluation method that decomposes concept semantics into verifiable questions, bypassing the need for reference images. Benchmark results reveal that current models tend to rely on a limited set of prototypical visual patterns, indicating room for improvement in diversity and distinctiveness.

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