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MMMU benchmark
The MMMU benchmark, short for Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning benchmark, is an evaluation standard used to assess the advanced reasoning capabilities and domain-specific knowledge of multimodal artificial intelligence models on college-level tasks. Sourced from higher-education textbooks, exams, and quizzes across a wide array of disciplines such as science, engineering, medicine, business, and the arts, it requires models to combine linguistic comprehension with expert visual interpretation. Instead of focusing merely on basic object recognition or everyday commonsense, the benchmark challenges models with complex visual artifacts like charts, diagrams, chemical structures, and maps, serving as a standard testing ground for expert-level multimodal intelligence.
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Expanding Performance Boundaries of Open-Source Multimodal Models with Model, Data, and Test-Time Scaling
Zhe Chen, Weiyun Wang, Yue Cao, Yang-Zhou Liu, Zhangwei Gao, Erfei Cui, Jinguo Zhu, Shenglong Ye, Hao Tian, Zhaoyang Liu, Lixin Gu, Xue-Hui Wang, Qing-Yun Li, Yi-Ming Ren, Zixuan Chen, Jia-Peng Luo, Jiahao Wang, Tan Jiang, Bo Wang, Conghui He, Botian Shi, Xingcheng Zhang, Han Lv, Yi Wang, Wenqi Shao, Pei Chu, Zhongying Tu, Tong He, Zhiyong Wu, Hui Deng, Jiaye Ge, Kaiming Chen, Min Dou, Lewei Lu, Xizhou Zhu, Tong Lu, Da-Hu Lin, Yunfeng Qiao, Jifeng Dai, Wenhai Wang
Why you should read this
Introduces InternVL 2.5, an open-source multimodal model series that rivals proprietary systems like GPT-4o and becomes the first open-source model to exceed 70% on the MMMU benchmark through model, data, and test-time scaling strategies.
We introduce InternVL 2.5, an advanced multimodal large language model (MLLM) series that builds upon InternVL 2.0, maintaining its core model architecture while introducing significant enhancements in training and testing strategies as well as data quality. In this work, we delve into the relationship between model scaling and performance, systematically exploring the performance trends in vision encoders, language models, dataset sizes, and test-time configurations. Through extensive evaluations on a wide range of benchmarks, including multi-discipline reasoning, document understanding, multi-image / video understanding, real-world comprehension, multimodal hallucination detection, visual grounding, multilingual capabilities, and pure language processing, InternVL 2.5 exhibits competitive performance, rivaling leading commercial models such as GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet. Notably, our model is the first open-source MLLMs to surpass 70% on the MMMU benchmark, achieving a 3.7-point improvement through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning and showcasing strong potential for test-time scaling. We hope this model contributes to the open-source community by setting new standards for developing and applying multimodal AI systems. HuggingFace demo see this https URL
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2026-09-24

InternVL3: Exploring Advanced Training and Test-Time Recipes for Open-Source Multimodal Models
Jinguo Zhu, Weiyun Wang, Zhe Chen, Zhaoyang Liu, Shenglong Ye, Lixin Gu, Yuchen Duan, Hao Tian, Weijie Su, Jie Shao, Zhangwei Gao, Erfei Cui, Yue Cao, Yang-Zhou Liu, Haomin Wang, Weiye Xu, Hao Li, Jiahao Wang, Han Lv, De-Hua Chen, Songze Li, Yinan He, Tan Jiang, Jia-Peng Luo, Jiapeng Luo, Conghui He, Botian Shi, Xingcheng Zhang, Wenqi Shao, Junjun He, Ying Xiong, Wenwen Qu, Peng Sun, Penglong Jiao, Li-Jun Wu, Kaipeng Zhang, Hui Deng, Jiaye Ge, Kaiming Chen, Limin Wang, Min Dou, Lewei Lu, Xizhou Zhu, Tong Lu, Da-Hua Lin, Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai, Wenhai Wang
Why you should read this
Presents InternVL3, a native multimodal model trained jointly on visual and textual corpora that matches leading proprietary systems on the MMMU benchmark by combining variable visual position encoding with advanced test-time scaling.
We introduce InternVL3, a significant advancement in the InternVL series featuring a native multimodal pre-training paradigm. Rather than adapting a text-only large language model (LLM) into a multimodal large language model (MLLM) that supports visual inputs, InternVL3 jointly acquires multimodal and linguistic capabilities from both diverse multimodal data and pure-text corpora during a single pre-training stage. This unified training paradigm effectively addresses the complexities and alignment challenges commonly encountered in conventional post-hoc training pipelines for MLLMs. To further improve performance and scalability, InternVL3 incorporates variable visual position encoding (V2PE) to support extended multimodal contexts, employs advanced post-training techniques such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and mixed preference optimization (MPO), and adopts test-time scaling strategies alongside an optimized training infrastructure. Extensive empirical evaluations demonstrate that InternVL3 delivers superior performance across a wide range of multi-modal tasks. In particular, InternVL3-78B achieves a score of 72.2 on the MMMU benchmark, setting a new state-of-the-art among open-source MLLMs. Its capabilities remain highly competitive with leading proprietary models, including ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.5 Pro, while also maintaining strong pure-language proficiency. In pursuit of open-science principles, we will publicly release both the training data and model weights to foster further research and development in next-generation MLLMs.
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2026-09-24

MMMU: A Massive Multi-Discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI
Xiang Yue, Yuansheng Ni, Kai Zhang, Tianyu Zheng, Ruoqi Liu, Ge Zhang, Samuel Stevens, Dongfu Jiang, Weiming Ren, Yuxuan Sun, Cong Wei, Botao Yu, Ruibin Yuan, Renliang Sun, Ming Yin, Boyuan Zheng, Zhenzhu Yang, Yibo Liu, Wenhao Huang, Huan Sun, Yu Su, Wenhu Chen
Why you should read this
Establishes a college-level benchmark of 11,500 multidisciplinary visual problems across thirty image formats, exposing severe reasoning limitations in frontier multimodal models like GPT-4V and Gemini.
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.
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2026-09-14
