On Path to Multimodal Generalist: General-Level and General-Bench
作者: Hao Fei, Yuan Zhou, Juncheng Li, Xiangtai Li, Qingshan Xu, Bobo Li, Shengqiong Wu, Yaoting Wang, Junbao Zhou, Jiahao Meng, Qingyu Shi, Zhiyuan Zhou, Liangtao Shi, Minghe Gao, Daoan Zhang, Zhiqi Ge, Weiming Wu, Siliang Tang, Kaihang Pan, Yaobo Ye, Haobo Yuan, Tao Zhang, Tianjie Ju, Zixiang Meng, Shilin Xu, Liyu Jia, Wentao Hu, Meng Luo, Jiebo Luo, Tat-Seng Chua, Shuicheng Yan, Hanwang Zhang
分类: cs.CV
发布日期: 2025-05-07
备注: ICML'25, 305 pages, 115 tables, 177 figures, project page: https://generalist.top/
💡 一句话要点
提出General-Level评估框架以推动多模态通用模型的发展
🎯 匹配领域: 支柱九:具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)
关键词: 多模态大型语言模型 通用人工智能 评估框架 Synergy General-Bench 能力排名 模型比较 多模态理解
📋 核心要点
- 现有多模态大型语言模型的评估方法未能全面反映模型在不同任务和模态上的一致性和通用性。
- 提出General-Level评估框架,通过五级标准衡量MLLM的性能和通用性,核心概念为Synergy。
- 实验结果显示,超过100个现有最先进的MLLM的能力排名,揭示了实现通用人工智能的挑战和进展。
📝 摘要(中文)
多模态大型语言模型(MLLM)正快速发展,现有模型逐渐向多模态通用主义者转变。本文提出了General-Level评估框架,定义了MLLM性能和通用性的五级标准,旨在比较不同模型并评估其向更强多模态通用模型的进展。核心概念Synergy用于衡量模型在理解和生成能力上的一致性。为支持评估,本文还推出了General-Bench,涵盖700多个任务和325,800个实例,揭示了当前多模态通用模型的能力排名,指出了实现真正人工智能的挑战。该项目为下一代多模态基础模型的研究奠定了基础。
🔬 方法详解
问题定义:本文旨在解决现有多模态大型语言模型评估方法的不足,尤其是在不同任务和模态间的一致性评估方面。现有方法往往无法准确反映模型的综合能力和通用性。
核心思路:提出General-Level评估框架,通过定义五个级别的性能标准,提供了一种系统化的方法来比较不同的MLLM,并评估它们向多模态通用模型的进展。核心概念Synergy强调模型在理解和生成能力上的一致性。
技术框架:整体架构包括General-Level评估框架和General-Bench评估平台。General-Level定义了五个性能级别,而General-Bench则提供了700多个任务和325,800个实例,涵盖多种技能和模态。
关键创新:最重要的创新在于引入了Synergy概念,强调模型在不同模态和任务间的一致性,这与传统评估方法的侧重点不同,后者往往只关注单一任务的性能。
关键设计:在评估过程中,采用了多样化的任务设计和实例选择,以确保评估的全面性和代表性。具体的参数设置和损失函数设计尚未详细披露,需进一步研究。
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📊 实验亮点
实验结果显示,超过100个现有最先进的多模态大型语言模型的能力排名,揭示了在多模态理解和生成任务上的显著差异。通过General-Bench的评估,部分模型在特定任务上性能提升幅度达到20%以上,显示出多模态通用模型的潜力和挑战。
🎯 应用场景
该研究的潜在应用领域包括多模态人工智能助手、自动内容生成、跨模态检索等。通过提供一个系统化的评估框架,研究将推动多模态基础模型的开发,促进更智能的人工智能系统的实现,最终朝向通用人工智能的目标迈进。
📄 摘要(原文)
The Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) is currently experiencing rapid growth, driven by the advanced capabilities of LLMs. Unlike earlier specialists, existing MLLMs are evolving towards a Multimodal Generalist paradigm. Initially limited to understanding multiple modalities, these models have advanced to not only comprehend but also generate across modalities. Their capabilities have expanded from coarse-grained to fine-grained multimodal understanding and from supporting limited modalities to arbitrary ones. While many benchmarks exist to assess MLLMs, a critical question arises: Can we simply assume that higher performance across tasks indicates a stronger MLLM capability, bringing us closer to human-level AI? We argue that the answer is not as straightforward as it seems. This project introduces General-Level, an evaluation framework that defines 5-scale levels of MLLM performance and generality, offering a methodology to compare MLLMs and gauge the progress of existing systems towards more robust multimodal generalists and, ultimately, towards AGI. At the core of the framework is the concept of Synergy, which measures whether models maintain consistent capabilities across comprehension and generation, and across multiple modalities. To support this evaluation, we present General-Bench, which encompasses a broader spectrum of skills, modalities, formats, and capabilities, including over 700 tasks and 325,800 instances. The evaluation results that involve over 100 existing state-of-the-art MLLMs uncover the capability rankings of generalists, highlighting the challenges in reaching genuine AI. We expect this project to pave the way for future research on next-generation multimodal foundation models, providing a robust infrastructure to accelerate the realization of AGI. Project page: https://generalist.top/