README.md

---
license: mit
arxiv: 2503.11557
task_categories:
- image-to-text
language:
- en
tags:
- MLLM
- Reasoning
pretty_name: VERIFY
size_categories:
- n<1K
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: uid
    dtype: string
  - name: image
    dtype: image
  - name: question
    dtype: string
  - name: options
    sequence: string
  - name: reasoning
    dtype: string
  - name: answer
    dtype: string
  - name: year
    dtype: int32
  splits:
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 4313494.0
    num_examples: 50
  download_size: 4289292
  dataset_size: 4313494.0
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
---
# VERIFY: A Benchmark of Visual Explanation and Reasoning for Investigating Multimodal Reasoning FidelitY

**VERIFY** is **the first** benchmark explicitly designed to assess the reasoning paths of MLLMs in visual reasoning tasks. 
By introducing novel evaluation metrics that go beyond mere accuracy, VERIFY highlights critical limitations in current MLLMs and emphasizes the need for a more balanced approach to visual perception and logical reasoning.


Details of the benchmark can viewed at the [VERIFY project page](https://proj-verify.jing.vision/).

🔔 **Teaser:**  
This teaser is provided for interested users. Simply copy and paste the image to quickly try out the advanced O1 or Gemini model.


## Usage


You can download this dataset by the following command (make sure that you have installed Huggingface Datasets):
```python
from datasets import load_dataset
from IPython.display import display
dataset = load_dataset("jing-bi/verify-teaser")
example = dataset["test"][0]
print("Full example:", example)
display(example['image'])
print("Problem ID:", example['uid'])
print("Question:", example['question'])
print("Options:", example['options'])
print("Reasoning:", example['reasoning'])
print("Answer:", example['answer'])
```

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## Contact

For any questions or further information, please contact:

- **Jing Bi** – [jing.bi@rochester.edu](mailto:jing.bi@rochester.edu)

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## Citation

If you find this work useful in your research, please consider citing our paper:

```bibtex
@misc{bi2025verify,
    title={VERIFY: A Benchmark of Visual Explanation and Reasoning for Investigating Multimodal Reasoning Fidelity},
    author={Jing Bi and Junjia Guo and Susan Liang and Guangyu Sun and Luchuan Song and Yunlong Tang and Jinxi He and Jiarui Wu and Ali Vosoughi and Chen Chen and Chenliang Xu},
    year={2025},
    eprint={2503.11557},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}