@inproceedings{
zhang2024unveiling,
title={Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models},
author={Yuan Zhang and Fei xiao and Tao Huang and Chun-Kai Fan and Hongyuan Dong and Jiawen Li and Jiacong Wang and Kuan Cheng and Shanghang Zhang and Haoyuan Guo},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=tu1oC7zHGW}
}
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have recently achieved rapid progress, exhibiting great perception and reasoning abilities concerning visual information. However, when faced with prompts in different sizes of solution spaces, LVLMs fail to always give consistent answers regarding the same knowledge point. This inconsistency of answers between different solution spaces is prevalent in LVLMs and erodes trust. To this end, we provide a multi-modal benchmark ConBench, to intuitively analyze how LVLMs perform when the solution space of a prompt revolves around a knowledge point. Based on the ConBench tool, we are the first to reveal the tapestry and get the following findings: (1) In the discriminate realm, the larger the solution space of the prompt, the lower the accuracy of the answers. 
(2) Establish the relationship between the discriminative and generative realms: the accuracy of the discriminative question type exhibits a strong positive correlation with its Consistency with the caption. (3) Compared to open-source models, closed-source models exhibit a pronounced bias advantage in terms of Consistency. Eventually, we ameliorate the consistency of LVLMs by trigger-based diagnostic refinement, indirectly improving the performance of their caption. We hope this paper will accelerate the research community in better evaluating their models and encourage future advancements in the consistency domain.
Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
Yuan Zhang Fei xiao Tao Huang Chun-Kai Fan Hongyuan Dong Jiawen Li Jiacong Wang Kuan Cheng Shanghang Zhang Haoyuan Guo