MMMU (validation)

Validation set of the Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning benchmark. Features college-level multimodal questions across 6 core disciplines (Art & Design, Business, Science, Health & Medicine, Humanities & Social Science, Tech & Engineering) spanning 30 subjects and 183 subfields with diverse image types including charts, diagrams, maps, and tables.

Claude Opus 4.5 from Anthropic currently leads the MMMU (validation) leaderboard with a score of 0.807 across 4 evaluated AI models.

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What MMMU (validation) measures

MMMU (validation) is a multimodal benchmark that evaluates large language models on multimodal, reasoning, general, healthcare, and vision tasks. LLM Stats tracks 4 models on this benchmark, with a maximum possible score of 1. Current average across reported models is 0.8, with the leader reaching 0.8.

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Publication

Paper
MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI
Authors
Xiang Yue, Yuansheng Ni, Kai Zhang, Tianyu Zheng, and 18 others
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Abstract

We introduce MMMU: a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal models on massive multi-discipline tasks demanding college-level subject knowledge and deliberate reasoning. MMMU includes 11.5K meticulously collected multimodal questions from college exams, quizzes, and textbooks, covering six core disciplines: Art & Design, Business, Science, Health & Medicine, Humanities & Social Science, and Tech & Engineering. These questions span 30 subjects and 183 subfields, comprising 30 highly heterogeneous image types, such as charts, diagrams, maps, tables, music sheets, and chemical structures. Unlike existing benchmarks, MMMU focuses on advanced perception and reasoning with domain-specific knowledge, challenging models to perform tasks akin to those faced by experts. The evaluation of 14 open-source LMMs as well as the proprietary GPT-4V(ision) and Gemini highlights the substantial challenges posed by MMMU. Even the advanced GPT-4V and Gemini Ultra only achieve accuracies of 56% and 59% respectively, indicating significant room for improvement. We believe MMMU will stimulate the community to build next-generation multimodal foundation models towards expert artificial general intelligence.

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.5 leads with 80.7%, followed by AnthropicClaude Opus 4.1 at 77.1% and AnthropicClaude Opus 4 at 76.5%.

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Common questions about MMMU (validation).

What is the MMMU (validation) benchmark?

Validation set of the Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning benchmark. Features college-level multimodal questions across 6 core disciplines (Art & Design, Business, Science, Health & Medicine, Humanities & Social Science, Tech & Engineering) spanning 30 subjects and 183 subfields with diverse image types including charts, diagrams, maps, and tables.

What is the MMMU (validation) leaderboard?

The MMMU (validation) leaderboard ranks 4 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Claude Opus 4.5 by Anthropic leads with a score of 0.807. The average score across all models is 0.769.

What is the highest MMMU (validation) score?

The highest MMMU (validation) score is 0.807, achieved by Claude Opus 4.5 from Anthropic.

How many models are evaluated on MMMU (validation)?

4 models have been evaluated on the MMMU (validation) benchmark, with 0 verified results and 4 self-reported results.

Where can I find the MMMU (validation) paper?

The MMMU (validation) paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16502. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does MMMU (validation) cover?

MMMU (validation) is categorized under multimodal, reasoning, general, healthcare, and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

Which model offers the best value on MMMU (validation)?

Among models scoring within 10% of the leader, Claude Haiku 4.5 from Anthropic is the cheapest, at $1.00 per million input tokens with a score of 0.732.

How recent are the MMMU (validation) leaderboard results?

The MMMU (validation) leaderboard was last updated in June 2026 and currently includes 4 evaluated models.

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