Shengbang Tong


2025

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MMMU-Pro: A More Robust Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark
Xiang Yue | Tianyu Zheng | Yuansheng Ni | Yubo Wang | Kai Zhang | Shengbang Tong | Yuxuan Sun | Botao Yu | Ge Zhang | Huan Sun | Yu Su | Wenhu Chen | 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.