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Zhikai Li, Jiatong Li, Xuewen Liu, Wangbo Zhao, Pan Du, Kaicheng Zhou, Qingyi Gu, Yang You and 2 more

K-Sort Eval introduces an automated framework for evaluating visual generative models that integrates posterior correction for VLM judgments and a dynamic matching strategy, enabling more human-aligned assessments. The framework demonstrates high consistency with human-derived K-Sort Arena rankings and completes most evaluations in fewer than 90 VLM calls, showcasing a notable improvement in efficiency over prior methods.

Key insights

• Vision-language models (VLMs) can serve as effective automated judges for visual generation, provided their inherent biases and hallucinations are mitigated through adaptive posterior correction.
• Dynamically selecting evaluation instances based on maximum information gain (uncertainty and diversity) drastically improves the efficiency of VLM-based evaluation compared to static, exhaustive methods.
• Careful prompt engineering for VLMs, including random swapping of model outputs and explicit rule augmentation, is crucial for enhancing the consistency and reliability of their comparative judgments.

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