MORE

This is the official project website for the paper Quantifying and Mitigating Unimodal Biases in Multimodal Large Language Models: A Causal Perspective.

Pipeline

Dataset

Link

MORE Data

Comparison

Datasets	Knowledge-based	Multi-hop Reasoning	Answer Type	Unimodal Biases Evaluation	Rationale	# Size
Visual7W (Zhu et al., 2016)	❌	❌	Open-ended	❌	❌	327.9K
VQA (v2) (Goyal et al., 2017)	❌	❌	Open-ended	❌	❌	1.1M
FVQA (Wang et al., 2017)	✅	❌	Open-ended	❌	✅	5.8K
OKVQA (Marino et al., 2019)	✅	❌	Open-ended	❌	❌	14K
S3VQA (Jain et al., 2021)	✅	❌	Open-ended	❌	❌	7.5K
A-OKVQA (Schwenk et al., 2022)	✅	❌	Multi-choice	❌	✅	23.7K
INFOSEEK (Chen et al., 2023)	✅	❌	Open-ended	❌	❌	1.4M
MORE (Ours)	✅	✅	Multi-choice	✅	✅	12K

Table 1: Comparison of MORE with other VQA datasets, highlighting its incorporation of external knowledge, multi-hop reasoning, unimodal bias evaluation, and rationale for interpretability.

Data Format

Train / Val

{
        "data_id": "more_val_0",
        "image_id": "oven_05009956",
        "entity": [
            "Q165765",
            "Dornier Flugzeugwerke"
        ],
        "hop": 2,
        "question": "Where is the headquarters location of the parent organization of this aircraft?",
        "direct_answers": [
            "Untert\u00fcrkheim",
            "Stoccarda",
//            ...
        ],
        "options": [
            "Toulouse, France",
            "stuttgard",
            "manzell",
            "Dornier Flugzeugwerke"
        ],
        "correct_option_idx": 1,
        "vision_option": [
            "Dornier GmbH",
            "Dornier-Werke",
//            ...
        ],
        "language_option": "Toulouse, France",
        "semantic_misleading_option": [
            "manzell",
            "kluftern",
//            ...
        ],
        "rationale": "To answer the question, first, I need to identify what this aircraft is. From the image, this aircraft is Dornier Flugzeugwerke. Then, I need to infer the parent organization of Dornier Flugzeugwerke, which is Daimler Benz. Then, I need to infer the headquarters location of Daimler Benz, which is stuttgard. Therefore, the answer is: stuttgard."
    }

Test

{
        "data_id": "more_test_0",
        "image_id": "oven_04953332",
        "question": "Which body of water is located in or next to the place where the architect of this building died?",
        "options": [
            "Palace of Justice, Bucharest",
            "izvorul oticului river",
            "river seine",
            "Lake Zurich"
        ]
}

Statistics

Dataset	#I, Q, A	Len of Q / A	# Ent
MORE-train	10K	14.3 / 2.1	1,261
- 2-hop	4,134	11.6 / 2.0	886
- 3-hop	5,866	16.1 / 2.2	686
MORE-dev	1K	13.8 / 2.3	118
- 2-hop	548	12.2 / 2.2	71
- 3-hop	452	15.8 / 2.5	73
MORE-test	1K	13.9 / 2.4	251
- 2-hop	500	12.3 / 2.2	153
- 3-hop	500	15.6 / 2.6	143

Table 2: Dataset statistics of different hops.

Citation

Please cite our paper if this repository inspires your work.

@article{chen2024quantifying,
  title={Quantifying and Mitigating Unimodal Biases in Multimodal Large Language Models: A Causal Perspective},
  author={Chen, Meiqi and Cao, Yixin and Zhang, Yan and Lu, Chaochao},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.18346},
  year={2024}
}

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