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WorldVQA

Overview

WorldVQA is a benchmark designed to evaluate the atomic visual world knowledge of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). It measures models' ability to ground and name visual entities across a stratified taxonomy, spanning from common head-class objects to long-tail rarities.

Task Description

  • Task Type: Visual Entity Recognition / Knowledge QA
  • Input: Image + question asking to identify a visual entity
  • Output: Free-form text answer (specific entity name)
  • Domain: Nature, architecture, culture, products, transportation, entertainment, brands, sports

Key Features

  • 3000 VQA pairs across 8 semantic categories
  • Bilingual: English (non-zh) and Chinese (zh)
  • Three difficulty levels: easy, medium, hard
  • Tests atomic visual knowledge decoupled from reasoning
  • Requires precise entity identification (e.g., specific breed, not generic "dog")

Evaluation Notes

  • Default configuration uses 0-shot evaluation
  • Evaluates on train split (the benchmark data split)
  • Primary metric: Accuracy via LLM-as-judge
  • Supports LLM judge for semantic equivalence checking
  • Results reported per category and overall

Properties

Property Value
Benchmark Name world_vqa
Dataset ID evalscope/WorldVQA
Paper N/A
Tags Knowledge, MultiModal, QA
Metrics acc
Default Shots 0-shot
Evaluation Split train

Data Statistics

Metric Value
Total Samples 3,000
Prompt Length (Mean) 38.4 chars
Prompt Length (Min/Max) 5 / 182 chars

Per-Subset Statistics:

Subset Samples Prompt Mean Prompt Min Prompt Max
Nature & Environment 326 33.9 7 83
Locations & Architecture 512 42.03 9 122
Culture, Arts & Crafts 506 33.71 7 112
Objects & Products 437 55.97 9 182
Vehicles, Craft & Transportation 306 30.67 8 114
Entertainment, Media & Gaming 511 30.5 5 83
Brands, Logos & Graphic Design 260 39.1 6 83
Sports, Gear & Venues 142 41.99 9 100

Image Statistics:

Metric Value
Total Images 3,000
Images per Sample min: 1, max: 1, mean: 1
Resolution Range 33x65 - 3840x3840
Formats gif, jpeg, png, webp

Sample Example

Subset: Nature & Environment

{
  "input": [
    {
      "id": "0c08c4e2",
      "content": [
        {
          "text": "What breed of dog is in the picture?"
        },
        {
          "image": "[BASE64_IMAGE: png, ~392.9KB]"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "target": "Greek Hound",
  "id": 0,
  "group_id": 0,
  "subset_key": "Nature & Environment",
  "metadata": {
    "index": 0,
    "category": "Nature & Environment",
    "language": "non-zh",
    "difficulty": "medium"
  }
}

Prompt Template

Prompt Template:

{question}

Usage

Using CLI

evalscope eval \
    --model YOUR_MODEL \
    --api-url OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL \
    --api-key EMPTY_TOKEN \
    --datasets world_vqa \
    --limit 10  # Remove this line for formal evaluation

Using Python

from evalscope import run_task
from evalscope.config import TaskConfig

task_cfg = TaskConfig(
    model='YOUR_MODEL',
    api_url='OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL',
    api_key='EMPTY_TOKEN',
    datasets=['world_vqa'],
    dataset_args={
        'world_vqa': {
            # subset_list: ['Nature & Environment', 'Locations & Architecture', 'Culture, Arts & Crafts']  # optional, evaluate specific subsets
        }
    },
    limit=10,  # Remove this line for formal evaluation
)

run_task(task_cfg=task_cfg)