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arXiv Computation and Language By Sabbir Mollah, Rohit Gupta, Sirnam Swetha, Qingyang Liu, Ahnaf Munir, Mubarak Shah

The Telephone Game: Evaluating Semantic Drift in Unified Models

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The paper introduces the Semantic Drift Protocol (SDP), a Telephone Game-inspired method to evaluate how well unified models preserve meaning when alternating between image-to-text (I2T) and text-to-image (T2I) generation over multiple generations. It defines Mean Cumulative Drift (MCD) and Multi-Generation GenEval (MGG) as metrics for semantic retention, and presents a new benchmark of 400 image‑text pairs from NoCaps and DOCCI to stress-test models beyond COCO. Applying SDP to seven models shows that models with strong single‑pass scores can still suffer severe semantic drift, revealing catastrophic failure modes that isolated benchmarks miss.

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