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arXiv Computer Vision By Sandeep Wadhwa, Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Parrva Chirag Shah, Prakhar Galriya

NumBench: Diagnosing Counting Failures in Text-to-Image Models

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NumBench is a large benchmark of 640,000 text‑to‑image prompts that tests how well models count objects, covering 1,600 categories and counts from 1 to 100. It uses a factorial design to vary composition, spatial guidance, and appearance while balancing counts, and introduces a process model that predicts a near‑quadratic collision deficit at low occupancy. The authors also propose the Confidence‑Weighted Numeric Precision Score for scalable evaluation and find that all tested systems perform poorly above 50 objects, with count range, layout, and composition having the largest effects.

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