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PUMA: A Polish Benchmark for Culturally Grounded Multimodal Understanding

arXiv:2608.21853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly moving beyond text processing, adding support for other modalities such as images and audio. While text understa...

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arXiv AI
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MuseBench: Benchmarking Intent-Level Audiovisual Arts Understanding in MLLMs

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Multilingual Idioms in Sentences and Conversations Across High-, Medium-, and Low-Resource Languages

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MUSE: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models on Multi-Modal Understanding in Situated Education

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CultureVidBench: Benchmarking Cultural Understanding in Text-to-Video Generation

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MObyGaze: a film dataset of multimodal objectification densely annotated by experts

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