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VALSE (VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and Language Models Centered on Linguistic Phenomena)

Introduced by Letitia Parcalabescu et al. in VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and Language Models Centered on Linguistic Phenomena14 Dec 2021 archive 2025-07-28

We propose VALSE (Vision And Language Structured Evaluation), a novel benchmark designed for testing general-purpose pretrained vision and language (V&L) models for their visio-linguistic grounding capabilities on specific linguistic phenomena. VALSE offers a suite of six tests covering various linguistic constructs. Solving these requires models to ground linguistic phenomena in the visual modality, allowing more fine-grained evaluations than hitherto possible. We expect VALSE to serve as an important benchmark to measure future progress of pretrained V&L models from a linguistic perspective, complementing the canonical task-centred V&L evaluations.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
image-sentence alignment VALSE ViLBERT 12-in-1 average pairwise accuracy 75.1 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE actant swap GPT2 pairwise accuracy 76.9 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE action replacement CLIP pairwise accuracy 75.6 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE coreference standard ViLBERT 12-in-1 pairwise accuracy 75.7 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE coreference clean ViLBERT 12-in-1 pairwise accuracy 69.2 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE counting balanced ViLBERT 12-in-1 pairwise accuracy 76.7 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE counting small numbers ViLBERT 12-in-1 pairwise accuracy 80.2 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE counting adversarial ViLBERT 12-in-1 pairwise accuracy 77.3 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE existence ViLBERT 12-in-1 pairwise accuracy 95.6 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE foil-it (noun phrases) CLIP pairwise accuracy 88.8 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE plurality ViLBERT 12-in-1 pairwise accuracy 72.4 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare
image-sentence alignment VALSE spatial relations GPT1 pairwise accuracy 77.2 VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and... heidelberg-nlp/valse 7 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 26. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and Language Models Centered on Linguistic Phenomena 1 84 14 Dec 2021 ran 4 of 9 samples (5 unverified)

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License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • VALSE foil-it (noun phrases)
  • VALSE coreference clean
  • VALSE coreference standard
  • VALSE actant swap
  • VALSE action replacement
  • VALSE spatial relations
  • VALSE counting adversarial
  • VALSE counting small numbers
  • VALSE counting balanced
  • VALSE plurality
  • VALSE existence
  • VALSE

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