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Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

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  • Simple captioning (LLaVA) combined with LLM aggregator (Llama3) outperforms all LMM-based methods with 5+ images, demonstrating current LMMs are inadequate for cross-image information integration

    80% confidence

  • Visual domain exhibits Lost-in-Middle phenomenon analogous to NLP, with LLaVA performing best with needle before question and proprietary models preferring needle at start

    80% confidence

  • MIRAGE retriever significantly outperforms CLIP on question-like text retrieval without efficiency loss

    80% confidence

  • All evaluated models show significant performance falloff as haystack size increases, with proprietary models failing above 1K images due to API payload limits

    80% confidence

  • Visual Haystacks is the first visual-centric NIAH benchmark, compared to prior text-based OCR retrieval approaches

    80% confidence

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