MME

A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models measuring both perception and cognition abilities across 14 subtasks. Features manually designed instruction-answer pairs to avoid data leakage and provides systematic quantitative assessment of MLLM capabilities.

DeepSeek VL2 from DeepSeek currently leads the MME leaderboard with a score of 0.225 across 3 evaluated AI models.

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DeepSeekDeepSeek VL2 leads with 22.5%, followed by DeepSeekDeepSeek VL2 Small at 21.2% and DeepSeekDeepSeek VL2 Tiny at 19.1%.

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Common questions about MME.

What is the MME benchmark?

A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models measuring both perception and cognition abilities across 14 subtasks. Features manually designed instruction-answer pairs to avoid data leakage and provides systematic quantitative assessment of MLLM capabilities.

What is the MME leaderboard?

The MME leaderboard ranks 3 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, DeepSeek VL2 by DeepSeek leads with a score of 0.225. The average score across all models is 0.210.

What is the highest MME score?

The highest MME score is 0.225, achieved by DeepSeek VL2 from DeepSeek.

How many models are evaluated on MME?

3 models have been evaluated on the MME benchmark, with 0 verified results and 3 self-reported results.

Where can I find the MME paper?

The MME paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13394. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does MME cover?

MME is categorized under vision, multimodal, and reasoning. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

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