ScienceQA Visual

ScienceQA Visual is a multimodal science question answering benchmark consisting of 21,208 multiple-choice questions from elementary and high school science curricula. The dataset covers 3 subjects (natural science, language science, social science), 26 topics, 127 categories, and 379 skills. 48.7% of questions include image context requiring multimodal reasoning. Questions are annotated with lectures (83.9%) and explanations (90.5%) to support chain-of-thought reasoning for science question answering.

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct from Microsoft currently leads the ScienceQA Visual leaderboard with a score of 0.975 across 1 evaluated AI models.

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MicrosoftPhi-4-multimodal-instruct leads with 97.5%.

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What is the ScienceQA Visual benchmark?

ScienceQA Visual is a multimodal science question answering benchmark consisting of 21,208 multiple-choice questions from elementary and high school science curricula. The dataset covers 3 subjects (natural science, language science, social science), 26 topics, 127 categories, and 379 skills. 48.7% of questions include image context requiring multimodal reasoning. Questions are annotated with lectures (83.9%) and explanations (90.5%) to support chain-of-thought reasoning for science question answering.

What is the ScienceQA Visual leaderboard?

The ScienceQA Visual leaderboard ranks 1 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Phi-4-multimodal-instruct by Microsoft leads with a score of 0.975. The average score across all models is 0.975.

What is the highest ScienceQA Visual score?

The highest ScienceQA Visual score is 0.975, achieved by Phi-4-multimodal-instruct from Microsoft.

How many models are evaluated on ScienceQA Visual?

1 models have been evaluated on the ScienceQA Visual benchmark, with 0 verified results and 1 self-reported results.

Where can I find the ScienceQA Visual paper?

The ScienceQA Visual paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09513. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does ScienceQA Visual cover?

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

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