VISTA-Bench: Benchmarking Multilingual Image Translation with Image-Specific Rubrics
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arXiv:2609.37287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image translation is a fundamental capability of multimodal models for multilingual applications, requiring visual understanding and meaning preservation across languages. However, existing benchmarks have limited language coverage and often lack explicit image-specific evaluation criteria, making it difficult to comprehensively assess this capability. To systematically evaluate this capability, we introduce VISTA-Bench, covering 22 languages and 10 domains, and develop an image-specific rubric evaluation protocol. The benchmark combines sampli
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- arXiv:2609.37287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image translation is a fundamental capability of multimodal models for multilingual applications, requiring visual understanding and meaning preservation across languages.
- However, existing benchmarks have limited language coverage and often lack explicit image-specific evaluation criteria, making it difficult to comprehensively assess this capability.
- To systematically evaluate this capability, we introduce VISTA-Bench, covering 22 languages and 10 domains, and develop an image-specific rubric evaluation protocol.
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