LiveXiv -- A Multi-Modal Live Benchmark Based on Arxiv Papers Content
Authors: name: Nimrod Shabtay, name: Felipe Maia Polo, name: Sivan Doveh, name: Wei Lin, name: M. Jehanzeb Mirza, name: Leshem Chosen, name: Mikhail Yurochkin, name: Yuekai Sun, name: Assaf Arbelle, name: Leonid Karlinsky, name: Raja Giryes

The large-scale training of multi-modal models on data scraped from the web
has shown outstanding utility in infusing these models with the required world
knowledge to perform effectively on multiple downstream tasks. However, one
downside of scraping data from the web can be the potential sacrifice of the
benchmarks on which the abilities of these models are often evaluated. To
safeguard against test data contamination and to truly test the abilities of
these foundation models we propose LiveXiv: A scalable evolving live benchmark
based on scientific ArXiv papers. LiveXiv accesses domain-specific manuscripts
at any given timestamp and proposes to automatically generate visual
question-answer pairs (VQA). This is done without any human-in-the-loop, using
the multi-modal content in the manuscripts, like graphs, charts, and tables.
Moreover, we introduce an efficient evaluation approach that estimates the
performance of all models on the evolving benchmark using evaluations of only a
subset of models. This significantly reduces the overall evaluation cost. We
benchmark multiple open and proprietary Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) on the
first version of our benchmark, showing its challenging nature and exposing the
models true abilities, avoiding contamination. Lastly, in our commitment to
high quality, we have collected and evaluated a manually verified subset. By
comparing its overall results to our automatic annotations, we have found that
the performance variance is indeed minimal (<2.5%). Our dataset is available
online on HuggingFace, and our code will be available here.