MUSE：面向情境化教育多模态理解的大型视觉语言模型基准

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2609.19088v1 (cs) [Submitted on 16 Sep 2026] Title:MUSE: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models on Multi-Modal Understanding in Situated Education Authors:Luyao Zhu, Xun Wei Yee, Wei Li, Mun Thye Mak, Wee Siong Ng View a PDF of the paper titled MUSE: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models on Multi-Modal Understanding in Situated Education, by Luyao Zhu and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Large vision-language models have achieved remarkable progress in multi-modal understanding, yet their capabilities in educational settings remain insufficiently evaluated. In AI-assisted language learning, models must interpret artistic imagery, understand its semantic, affective, and cultural content, and reason about visual context to support meaningful interaction. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on real-world images or domain-specific educational reasoning, providing limited coverage of artistic educational content. To address this gap, we introduce MUSE, a benchmark for evaluating large vision-language models on artistic image understanding in situated educational applications. MUSE decouples image annotation from question generation, enabling diverse tasks with controllable difficulty while reducing annotation effort. It comprises twelve tasks spanning visual perception, semantic and affective interpretation, culture understanding, and compositional reasoning, together with diverse artistic images deliberately curated to center Singaporean and Southeast Asian multicultural contexts alongside Western art traditions, covering multiple themes and difficulty levels. Evaluation of open-source and proprietary models reveals substantial disparities across capability dimensions, particularly in affective interpretation and compositional reasoning. Our analysis further identifies common failure modes and key challenges for developing trustworthy multi-modal models for education. We hope MUSE will serve as a standardized benchmark for advancing multi-modal understanding in situated educational applications. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2609.19088 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2609.19088v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.19088 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Luyao Zhu [view email] [v1] Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:26:10 UTC (6,465 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled MUSE: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models on Multi-Modal Understanding in Situated Education, by Luyao Zhu and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.AI new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.CL cs.CV References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)