MMKE-Bench: A Multimodal Editing Benchmark for Diverse Visual Knowledge
Authors: name: Yuntao Du; name: Kailin Jiang; name: Zhi Gao; name: Chenrui Shi; name: Zilong Zheng; name: Siyuan Qi; name: Qing Li
Published: 2025-02-27 08:21:28

Abstract: Knowledge editing techniques have emerged as essential tools for updating the
factual knowledge of large language models (LLMs) and multimodal models (LMMs),
allowing them to correct outdated or inaccurate information without retraining
from scratch. However, existing benchmarks for multimodal knowledge editing
primarily focus on entity-level knowledge represented as simple triplets, which
fail to capture the complexity of real-world multimodal information. To address
this issue, we introduce MMKE-Bench, a comprehensive MultiModal Knowledge
Editing Benchmark, designed to evaluate the ability of LMMs to edit diverse
visual knowledge in real-world scenarios. MMKE-Bench addresses these
limitations by incorporating three types of editing tasks: visual entity
editing, visual semantic editing, and user-specific editing. Besides,
MMKE-Bench uses free-form natural language to represent and edit knowledge,
offering a more flexible and effective format. The benchmark consists of 2,940
pieces of knowledge and 8,363 images across 33 broad categories, with
evaluation questions automatically generated and human-verified. We assess five
state-of-the-art knowledge editing methods on three prominent LMMs, revealing
that no method excels across all criteria, and that visual and user-specific
edits are particularly challenging. MMKE-Bench sets a new standard for
evaluating the robustness of multimodal knowledge editing techniques, driving
progress in this rapidly evolving field.