MME-Unify: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Unified Multimodal
  Understanding and Generation Models
Authors: name: Wulin Xie; name: Yi-Fan Zhang; name: Chaoyou Fu; name: Yang Shi; name: Bingyan Nie; name: Hongkai Chen; name: Zhang Zhang; name: Liang Wang; name: Tieniu Tan
Published: 2025-04-04 17:59:55

Abstract: Existing MLLM benchmarks face significant challenges in evaluating Unified
MLLMs (U-MLLMs) due to: 1) lack of standardized benchmarks for traditional
tasks, leading to inconsistent comparisons; 2) absence of benchmarks for
mixed-modality generation, which fails to assess multimodal reasoning
capabilities. We present a comprehensive evaluation framework designed to
systematically assess U-MLLMs. Our benchmark includes: Standardized Traditional
Task Evaluation. We sample from 12 datasets, covering 10 tasks with 30
subtasks, ensuring consistent and fair comparisons across studies." 2. Unified
Task Assessment. We introduce five novel tasks testing multimodal reasoning,
including image editing, commonsense QA with image generation, and geometric
reasoning. 3. Comprehensive Model Benchmarking. We evaluate 12 leading U-MLLMs,
such as Janus-Pro, EMU3, VILA-U, and Gemini2-flash, alongside specialized
understanding (e.g., Claude-3.5-Sonnet) and generation models (e.g., DALL-E-3).
Our findings reveal substantial performance gaps in existing U-MLLMs,
highlighting the need for more robust models capable of handling mixed-modality
tasks effectively. The code and evaluation data can be found in
https://mme-unify.github.io/.