@LiorOnAI: It's time to solve one of the biggest challenges in vision-language models. Today's multimodal models can look at a bio…
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Lior announces the MMBU Challenge, a collaboration with Stanford to test whether vision-language models can truly recognize and localize biomedical images rather than guessing answers, featuring 3 tracks, $100K+ in prizes, running Oct 1 to Dec 31 with registration closing today.
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It’s time to solve one of the biggest challenges in vision-language models.
Today’s multimodal models can look at a biomedical image and give a convincing, sometimes correct, answer without actually understanding what they’re seeing.
A model might answer the medical question correctly while failing to identify basic visual context like the imaging modality, body part, specimen, or stain.
So, I’m teaming up with Stanford to solve this problem. You should too.
The MMBU Challenge tests whether models can actually recognize, localize, and understand what is in biomedical images, not just arrive at the right answer.
🏆 3 tracks 💻 $100K+ in compute and prizes 📅 Oct 1 to Dec 31 ⏰ Registration closes today
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