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---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: sourceTaxonName
    dtype: string
  - name: sourceTaxonRank
    dtype: string
  - name: targetTaxonName
    dtype: string
  - name: targetTaxonRank
    dtype: string
  - name: interactionTypeName
    dtype: string
  - name: sourceTaxonKingdomName
    dtype: string
  - name: sourceTaxonPhylumName
    dtype: string
  - name: sourceTaxonClassName
    dtype: string
  - name: sourceTaxonOrderName
    dtype: string
  - name: sourceTaxonFamilyName
    dtype: string
  - name: sourceTaxonGenusName
    dtype: string
  - name: targetTaxonKingdomName
    dtype: string
  - name: targetTaxonPhylumName
    dtype: string
  - name: targetTaxonClassName
    dtype: string
  - name: targetTaxonOrderName
    dtype: string
  - name: targetTaxonFamilyName
    dtype: string
  - name: targetTaxonGenusName
    dtype: string
  - name: year
    dtype: string
  - name: month
    dtype: string
  - name: day
    dtype: string
  - name: decimalLatitude
    dtype: string
  - name: decimalLongitude
    dtype: string
  - name: license
    dtype: string
  - name: referenceCitation
    dtype: string
  - name: sourceVernacularName
    list: string
  - name: targetVernacularName
    list: string
  - name: imageURL
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 153224188
    num_examples: 256758
  download_size: 10399847
  dataset_size: 153224188
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
license: cc
task_categories:
- text-to-image
- image-to-text
- visual-question-answering
- zero-shot-image-classification
language:
- en
pretty_name: >-
  Scalable Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models under Semantic
  Variation
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---

# BioInteract: Scalable Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models under Semantic Variation

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## Description

[BioInteract](https://georgianagmanolache.github.io/biointeract/) comprising richly annotated images depicting interactions between organsims, or biotic interactions, provides a natural testbed for tasks involving images and unconstrained, free-form natural language, as interacting organisms are discerned from images alone and their relationship can be expressed through multiple linguistic forms.

## BioInteract Dataset
BioInteract, the largest publicly available multimodal dataset of biotic interaction, specifically curated for vision and machine learning application in the context of AI-driven ecological research. BioInteract includes 256K images annotated with 15.4K unique biotic interactions knowledge graphs which represent the semantic relationship between entities as triplets—source taxon, interaction type, target taxon—across five kingdoms (*Animalia*, *Plantae*, *Fungi*, *Chromista*, and *incertae sedis*) and nine ecologically standardized interaction types.
A key contribution of BioInteract is that it can generate semantically controlled linguistic variations directly from the underlying knowledge graph. 
By leveraging structured triplets, we can systematically construct both meaning-preserving and contradictory query variants, enabling explicit control over semantic similarity. 
This allows us to disentangle correctness from consistency and to rigorously evaluate model robustness under targeted linguistic transformations.

### Directory
```plaintext
main/
├── BioInteract/
│   └── train-00000-of-00001.parquet
├── BioInteract-benchmark/
│   ├── BioInteractCommon.csv
│   └── BioInteract100.csv
├──README.md
└──.gitattributes
```