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* **`2024.11.14`** 🌟 MME-RealWorld now has a [lite version](https://huggingface.co./datasets/yifanzhang114/MME-RealWorld-Lite) (50 samples per task, or all if fewer than 50) for inference acceleration, which is also supported by VLMEvalKit and Lmms-eval.
* **`2024.09.03`** 🌟 MME-RealWorld is now supported in the [VLMEvalKit](https://github.com/open-compass/VLMEvalKit) and [Lmms-eval](https://github.com/EvolvingLMMs-Lab/lmms-eval) repository, enabling one-click evaluation—give it a try!" 
* **`2024.08.20`** 🌟 We are very proud to launch MME-RealWorld, which contains 13K high-quality images, annotated by 32 volunteers, resulting in 29K question-answer pairs that cover 43 subtasks across 5 real-world scenarios. As far as we know, **MME-RealWorld is the largest manually annotated benchmark to date, featuring the highest resolution and a targeted focus on real-world applications**.


Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2408.13257

Code: https://github.com/yfzhang114/MME-RealWorld

Project page: https://mme-realworld.github.io/

The `data.zip` file contains all images and question JSON files, with the question format identical to the [full split](https://huggingface.co./datasets/yifanzhang114/MME-RealWorld).

Results of representative models on the MME-RealWorld-lite subset:

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/623d8ca4c29adf5ef6175615/p-aHTLQjBach39Rz9CyR2.png)

# MME-RealWorld Data Card

## Dataset details


Existing Multimodal Large Language Model benchmarks present several common barriers that make it difficult to measure the significant challenges that models face in the real world, including: 
1) small data scale leads to a large performance variance; 
2) reliance on model-based annotations results in restricted data quality; 
3) insufficient task difficulty, especially caused by the limited image resolution.

We present MME-RealWord, a benchmark meticulously designed to address real-world applications with practical relevance. Featuring 13,366 high-resolution images averaging 2,000 × 1,500 pixels, MME-RealWord poses substantial recognition challenges. Our dataset encompasses 29,429 annotations across 43 tasks, all expertly curated by a team of 25 crowdsource workers and 7 MLLM experts. The main advantages of MME-RealWorld compared to existing MLLM benchmarks as follows:

1. **Data Scale**: with the efforts of a total of 32 volunteers, we have manually annotated 29,429 QA pairs focused on real-world scenarios, making this the largest fully human-annotated benchmark known to date.

2. **Data Quality**: 1) Resolution: Many image details, such as a scoreboard in a sports event, carry critical information. These details can only be properly interpreted with high- resolution images, which are essential for providing meaningful assistance to humans. To the best of our knowledge, MME-RealWorld features the highest average image resolution among existing competitors. 2) Annotation: All annotations are manually completed, with a professional team cross-checking the results to ensure data quality.

3. **Task Difficulty and Real-World Utility.**: We can see that even the most advanced models have not surpassed 60% accuracy. Additionally, many real-world tasks are significantly more difficult than those in traditional benchmarks. For example, in video monitoring, a model needs to count the presence of 133 vehicles, or in remote sensing, it must identify and count small objects on a map with an average resolution exceeding 5000×5000.

4. **MME-RealWord-CN.**: Existing Chinese benchmark is usually translated from its English version. This has two limitations: 1) Question-image mismatch. The image may relate to an English scenario, which is not intuitively connected to a Chinese question. 2) Translation mismatch [58]. The machine translation is not always precise and perfect enough. We collect additional images that focus on Chinese scenarios, asking Chinese volunteers for annotation. This results in 5,917 QA pairs.

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/623d8ca4c29adf5ef6175615/Do69D0sNlG9eqr9cyE7bm.png)