VQAv2 (val)

VQAv2 is a balanced Visual Question Answering dataset containing open-ended questions about images that require understanding of vision, language, and commonsense knowledge to answer. VQAv2 addresses bias issues from the original VQA dataset by collecting complementary images such that every question is associated with similar images that result in different answers, forcing models to actually understand visual content rather than relying on language priors.

Gemma 3 12B from Google currently leads the VQAv2 (val) leaderboard with a score of 0.716 across 3 evaluated AI models.

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GoogleGemma 3 12B leads with 71.6%, followed by GoogleGemma 3 27B at 71.0% and GoogleGemma 3 4B at 62.4%.

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What is the VQAv2 (val) benchmark?

VQAv2 is a balanced Visual Question Answering dataset containing open-ended questions about images that require understanding of vision, language, and commonsense knowledge to answer. VQAv2 addresses bias issues from the original VQA dataset by collecting complementary images such that every question is associated with similar images that result in different answers, forcing models to actually understand visual content rather than relying on language priors.

What is the VQAv2 (val) leaderboard?

The VQAv2 (val) leaderboard ranks 3 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Gemma 3 12B by Google leads with a score of 0.716. The average score across all models is 0.683.

What is the highest VQAv2 (val) score?

The highest VQAv2 (val) score is 0.716, achieved by Gemma 3 12B from Google.

How many models are evaluated on VQAv2 (val)?

3 models have been evaluated on the VQAv2 (val) benchmark, with 0 verified results and 3 self-reported results.

Where can I find the VQAv2 (val) paper?

The VQAv2 (val) paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00837. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does VQAv2 (val) cover?

VQAv2 (val) is categorized under image to text, language, multimodal, reasoning, and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

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