Shengbang Tong
2025
MMMU-Pro: A More Robust Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark
Xiang Yue
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Tianyu Zheng
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Yuansheng Ni
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Yubo Wang
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Kai Zhang
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Shengbang Tong
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Yuxuan Sun
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Botao Yu
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Ge Zhang
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Huan Sun
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Yu Su
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Wenhu Chen
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Graham Neubig
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
This paper introduces MMMU-Pro, a robust version of the Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning (MMMU) benchmark. MMMU-Pro rigorously assesses multimodal models’ true understanding and reasoning capabilities through a three-step process based on MMMU: (1) filtering out questions answerable by text-only models, (2) augmenting candidate options, and (3) introducing a vision-only input setting where questions are embedded within images. This setting challenges AI to truly “see” and “read” simultaneously, testing a core human cognitive skill of seamlessly integrating visual and textual information. Results show that model performance is substantially lower on MMMU-Pro than on MMMU, ranging from 16.8% to 26.9% across models. We explore the impact of OCR prompts and Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning, finding that OCR prompts have minimal effect while CoT generally improves performance. MMMU-Pro provides a more rigorous evaluation tool, closely mimicking real-world scenarios and offering valuable directions for future multimodal research.
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