PairBench: A Systematic Framework for Selecting Reliable Judge VLMs
Aarash Feizi
Sai Rajeswar
Spandana Gella
Valentina Zantedeschi
Joao Monteiro
As large vision language models (VLMs) are increasingly used as automated evaluators, understanding their ability to effectively compare dat… (see more)a pairs as instructed in the prompt becomes essential. To address this, we present PairBench, a low-cost framework that systematically evaluates VLMs as customizable similarity tools across various modalities and scenarios. Through PairBench, we introduce four metrics that represent key desiderata of similarity scores: alignment with human annotations, consistency for data pairs irrespective of their order, smoothness of similarity distributions, and controllability through prompting. Our analysis demonstrates that no model, whether closed- or open-source, is superior on all metrics; the optimal choice depends on an auto evaluator's desired behavior (e.g., a smooth vs. a sharp judge), highlighting risks of widespread adoption of VLMs as evaluators without thorough assessment. For instance, the majority of VLMs struggle with maintaining symmetric similarity scores regardless of order. Additionally, our results show that the performance of VLMs on the metrics in PairBench closely correlates with popular benchmarks, showcasing its predictive power in ranking models.
Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in biodiversity knowledge
Justin Kitzes
Sara Beery
Kaitlyn M. Gaynor
Marta A. Jarzyna
Oisin Mac Aodha
Bernd Meyer
Graham W. Taylor
Devis Tuia
Tanya Berger-Wolf
How to Get Your LLM to Generate Challenging Problems for Evaluation
The pace of evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates new approaches for rigorous and comprehensive evaluation. Traditional hum… (see more)an annotation is increasingly impracticable due to the complexities and costs involved in generating high-quality, challenging problems, particularly for tasks such as long-context reasoning. Moreover, the rapid saturation of existing human-curated benchmarks by LLMs further necessitates the need to develop scalable and automatically renewable evaluation methodologies. In this work, we introduce **CHASE**, a unified framework to synthetically generate challenging problems using LLMs without human involvement. For a given task, our approach builds a hard problem in a bottom-up manner from simpler components. Moreover since we want to generate synthetic data for evaluation, our framework decomposes the generation process into independently verifiable sub-tasks, thereby ensuring a high level of quality and correctness. We implement CHASE to create evaluation benchmarks across three diverse domains: document-based question answering, repository-level code completion, and math reasoning. The performance of state-of-the-art LLMs on these synthetic benchmarks lies in the range of 40-60\% accuracy, thereby demonstrating the effectiveness of our framework at generating hard problems. Our experiments further reveal that the Gemini models significantly outperform other LLMs at long-context reasoning, and that the performance of all LLMs drastically drops by as much as 70\% when we scale up the context size to 50k tokens.
OBELiX: A Curated Dataset of Crystal Structures and Experimentally Measured Ionic Conductivities for Lithium Solid-State Electrolytes
F'elix Therrien
Jamal Abou Haibeh
Divya Sharma
Rhiannon Hendley
Alex Hern'andez-Garc'ia
Sun Sun
Alain Tchagang
Jiang Su
Samuel Huberman
Hongyu Guo
Homin Shin
Solid-state electrolyte batteries are expected to replace liquid electrolyte lithium-ion batteries in the near future thanks to their higher… (see more) theoretical energy density and improved safety. However, their adoption is currently hindered by their lower effective ionic conductivity, a quantity that governs charge and discharge rates. Identifying highly ion-conductive materials using conventional theoretical calculations and experimental validation is both time-consuming and resource-intensive. While machine learning holds the promise to expedite this process, relevant ionic conductivity and structural data is scarce. Here, we present OBELiX, a domain-expert-curated database of
OBELiX: A Curated Dataset of Crystal Structures and Experimentally Measured Ionic Conductivities for Lithium Solid-State Electrolytes
F'elix Therrien
Jamal Abou Haibeh
Divya Sharma
Rhiannon Hendley
Alex Hern'andez-Garc'ia
Sun Sun
Alain Tchagang
Jiang Su
Samuel Huberman
Hongyu Guo
Homin Shin
Solid-state electrolyte batteries are expected to replace liquid electrolyte lithium-ion batteries in the near future thanks to their higher… (see more) theoretical energy density and improved safety. However, their adoption is currently hindered by their lower effective ionic conductivity, a quantity that governs charge and discharge rates. Identifying highly ion-conductive materials using conventional theoretical calculations and experimental validation is both time-consuming and resource-intensive. While machine learning holds the promise to expedite this process, relevant ionic conductivity and structural data is scarce. Here, we present OBELiX, a domain-expert-curated database of
AILuminate: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons
Shaona Ghosh
Heather Frase
Adina Williams
Sarah Luger
Paul Rottger
Fazl Barez
Sean McGregor
Kenneth Fricklas
Mala Kumar
Quentin Feuillade--Montixi
Kurt Bollacker
Felix Friedrich
Ryan Tsang
Bertie Vidgen
Alicia Parrish
Chris Knotz
Eleonora Presani
Jonathan Bennion
Marisa Ferrara Boston
Mike Kuniavsky … (see 81 more)
Wiebke Hutiri
James Ezick
Malek Ben Salem
Rajat Sahay
Sujata Goswami
Usman Gohar
Ben Huang
Supheakmungkol Sarin
Elie Alhajjar
Canyu Chen
Roman Eng
K. Manjusha
Virendra Mehta
Eileen Peters Long
Murali Krishna Emani
Natan Vidra
Benjamin Rukundo
Abolfazl Shahbazi
Kongtao Chen
Rajat Ghosh
Vithursan Thangarasa
Pierre Peign'e
Abhinav Singh
Max Bartolo
Satyapriya Krishna
Mubashara Akhtar
Rafael Gold
Cody Coleman
Luis Oala
Vassil Tashev
Joseph Marvin Imperial
Amy Russ
Sasidhar Kunapuli
Nicolas Miailhe
Julien Delaunay
Bhaktipriya Radharapu
Rajat Shinde
Tuesday
Debojyoti Dutta
D. Grabb
Ananya Gangavarapu
Saurav Sahay
Agasthya Gangavarapu
Patrick Schramowski
Stephen Singam
Tom David
Xudong Han
Priyanka Mary Mammen
Tarunima Prabhakar
Venelin Kovatchev
Ahmed M. Ahmed
Kelvin Manyeki
Sandeep Madireddy
Fedor Zhdanov
Joachim Baumann
N. Vasan
Xianjun Yang
Carlos Mougn
Jibin Rajan Varghese
Hussain Chinoy
Seshakrishna Jitendar
Manil Maskey
Claire V. Hardgrove
Tianhao Li
Aakash Gupta
Emil Joswin
Yifan Mai
Shachi H. Kumar
Çigdem Patlak
Kevin Lu
Vincent Alessi
Sree Bhargavi Balija
Chenhe Gu
Robert Sullivan
James Gealy
Matt Lavrisa
James Goel
Peter Mattson
Percy Liang
Joaquin Vanschoren
AILuminate: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons
Shaona Ghosh
Heather Frase
Adina Williams
Sarah Luger
Paul Rottger
Fazl Barez
Sean McGregor
Kenneth Fricklas
Mala Kumar
Quentin Feuillade--Montixi
Kurt Bollacker
Felix Friedrich
Ryan Tsang
Bertie Vidgen
Alicia Parrish
Chris Knotz
Eleonora Presani
Jonathan Bennion
Marisa Ferrara Boston
Mike Kuniavsky … (see 81 more)
Wiebke Hutiri
James Ezick
Malek Ben Salem
Rajat Sahay
Sujata Goswami
Usman Gohar
Ben Huang
Supheakmungkol Sarin
Elie Alhajjar
Canyu Chen
Roman Eng
K. Manjusha
Virendra Mehta
Eileen Peters Long
Murali Krishna Emani
Natan Vidra
Benjamin Rukundo
Abolfazl Shahbazi
Kongtao Chen
Rajat Ghosh
Vithursan Thangarasa
Pierre Peign'e
Abhinav Singh
Max Bartolo
Satyapriya Krishna
Mubashara Akhtar
Rafael Gold
Cody Coleman
Luis Oala
Vassil Tashev
Joseph Marvin Imperial
Amy Russ
Sasidhar Kunapuli
Nicolas Miailhe
Julien Delaunay
Bhaktipriya Radharapu
Rajat Shinde
Tuesday
Debojyoti Dutta
D. Grabb
Ananya Gangavarapu
Saurav Sahay
Agasthya Gangavarapu
Patrick Schramowski
Stephen Singam
Tom David
Xudong Han
Priyanka Mary Mammen
Tarunima Prabhakar
Venelin Kovatchev
Ahmed M. Ahmed
Kelvin Manyeki
Sandeep Madireddy
Fedor Zhdanov
Joachim Baumann
N. Vasan
Xianjun Yang
Carlos Mougn
Jibin Rajan Varghese
Hussain Chinoy
Seshakrishna Jitendar
Manil Maskey
Claire V. Hardgrove
Tianhao Li
Aakash Gupta
Emil Joswin
Yifan Mai
Shachi H. Kumar
Çigdem Patlak
Kevin Lu
Vincent Alessi
Sree Bhargavi Balija
Chenhe Gu
Robert Sullivan
James Gealy
Matt Lavrisa
James Goel
Peter Mattson
Percy Liang
Joaquin Vanschoren
Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
Myra Cheng
Su Lin Blodgett
Alicia DeVrio
Lisa Egede
As text generation systems' outputs are increasingly anthropomorphic -- perceived as human-like -- scholars have also raised increasing conc… (see more)erns about how such outputs can lead to harmful outcomes, such as users over-relying or developing emotional dependence on these systems. How to intervene on such system outputs to mitigate anthropomorphic behaviors and their attendant harmful outcomes, however, remains understudied. With this work, we aim to provide empirical and theoretical grounding for developing such interventions. To do so, we compile an inventory of interventions grounded both in prior literature and a crowdsourced study where participants edited system outputs to make them less human-like. Drawing on this inventory, we also develop a conceptual framework to help characterize the landscape of possible interventions, articulate distinctions between different types of interventions, and provide a theoretical basis for evaluating the effectiveness of different interventions.
Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
Myra Cheng
Su Lin Blodgett
Alicia DeVrio
Lisa Egede
As text generation systems' outputs are increasingly anthropomorphic -- perceived as human-like -- scholars have also raised increasing conc… (see more)erns about how such outputs can lead to harmful outcomes, such as users over-relying or developing emotional dependence on these systems. How to intervene on such system outputs to mitigate anthropomorphic behaviors and their attendant harmful outcomes, however, remains understudied. With this work, we aim to provide empirical and theoretical grounding for developing such interventions. To do so, we compile an inventory of interventions grounded both in prior literature and a crowdsourced study where participants edited system outputs to make them less human-like. Drawing on this inventory, we also develop a conceptual framework to help characterize the landscape of possible interventions, articulate distinctions between different types of interventions, and provide a theoretical basis for evaluating the effectiveness of different interventions.
Object-centric Binding in Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining
Rim Assouel
Pietro Astolfi
Florian Bordes
Michal Drozdzal
Object-centric Binding in Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining
Rim Assouel
Pietro Astolfi
Florian Bordes
Michal Drozdzal
Recent advances in vision language models (VLM) have been driven by contrastive models such as CLIP, which learn to associate visual informa… (see more)tion with their corresponding text descriptions. However, these models have limitations in understanding complex compositional scenes involving multiple objects and their spatial relationships. To address these challenges, we propose a novel approach that diverges from commonly used strategies, which rely on the design of hard-negative augmentations. Instead, our work focuses on integrating inductive biases into pre-trained CLIP-like models to improve their compositional understanding without using any additional hard-negatives. To that end, we introduce a binding module that connects a scene graph, derived from a text description, with a slot-structured image representation, facilitating a structured similarity assessment between the two modalities. We also leverage relationships as text-conditioned visual constraints, thereby capturing the intricate interactions between objects and their contextual relationships more effectively. Our resulting model not only enhances the performance of CLIP-based models in multi-object compositional understanding but also paves the way towards more accurate and sample-efficient image-text matching of complex scenes.
Making the Write Connections: Linking Writing Support Tools with Writer's Needs
Zixin Zhao
Young-Ho Kim
Gerald Penn
Fanny Chevalier
This work sheds light on whether and how creative writers' needs are met by existing research and commercial writing support tools (WST). We… (see more) conducted a need finding study to gain insight into the writers' process during creative writing through a qualitative analysis of the response from an online questionnaire and Reddit discussions on r/Writing. Using a systematic analysis of 115 tools and 67 research papers, we map out the landscape of how digital tools facilitate the writing process. Our triangulation of data reveals that research predominantly focuses on the writing activity and overlooks pre-writing activities and the importance of visualization. We distill 10 key takeaways to inform future research on WST and point to opportunities surrounding underexplored areas. Our work offers a holistic and up-to-date account of how tools have transformed the writing process, guiding the design of future tools that address writers' evolving and unmet needs.