8 papers
A Culturally-diverse Multilingual Multimodal Video Benchmark & Model
Bhuiyan Sanjid Shafique, Ashmal Vayani, Muhammad Maaz +26
Large multimodal models (LMMs) have recently gained attention due to their effectiveness to understand and generate descriptions of visual content. Most existing LMMs are in Englis…
How Good are Foundation Models in Step-by-Step Embodied Reasoning?
Dinura Dissanayake, Ahmed Heakl, Omkar Thawakar +9
Embodied agents operating in the physical world must make decisions that are not only effective but also safe, spatially coherent, and grounded in context. While recent advances in…
Fann or Flop: A Multigenre, Multiera Benchmark for Arabic Poetry Understanding in LLMs
Wafa Alghallabi, Ritesh Thawkar, Sara Ghaboura +5
Arabic poetry is one of the richest and most culturally rooted forms of expression in the Arabic language, known for its layered meanings, stylistic diversity, and deep historical…
ARB: A Comprehensive Arabic Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark
Sara Ghaboura, Ketan More, Wafa Alghallabi +5
As Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) become more capable, there is growing interest in evaluating their reasoning processes alongside their final outputs. However, most benchmarks rem…
All Languages Matter: Evaluating LMMs on Culturally Diverse 100 Languages
Ashmal Vayani, Dinura Dissanayake, Hasindri Watawana +66
Existing Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) generally focus on only a few regions and languages. As LMMs continue to improve, it is increasingly important to ensure they understand cul…
DriveLMM-o1: A Step-by-Step Reasoning Dataset and Large Multimodal Model for Driving Scenario Understanding
Ayesha Ishaq, Jean Lahoud, Ketan More +10
While large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated strong performance across various Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks, certain challenges require complex multi-step reason…