arXiv:2602.02043cs.CVcs.AI2026-02

自动构建可控数据集,揭示视觉语言模型的组合推理缺陷。

Auto-Comp: An Automated Pipeline for Scalable Compositional Probing of Contrastive Vision-Language Models

  • 用合成图像与提示生成可控制的对比测试数据
  • 发现CLIP和SigLIP在颜色绑定与空间关系上普遍存在错误
  • 揭示模型对重复元素敏感,适合研究模型鲁棒性

现代视觉语言模型在组合推理上存在关键缺陷,常将‘一个红色立方体和一个蓝色球体’与‘一个蓝色立方体和一个红色球体’混淆。为实现细粒度、可控的分析,我们提出Auto-Comp,一个全自动的合成基准生成管道。该管道生成来自最小化描述(如‘显示器位于自行车左侧,白色背景’)和大语言模型生成的上下文描述(如‘在明亮的摄影棚中,显示器位于自行车左侧’)的配对图像,支持可控的A/B测试,以分离核心绑定能力与视觉语言复杂性。我们在20个VLM上评估了新构建的颜色绑定与空间关系基准,发现CLIP和SigLIP模型家族均存在普遍的组合失败。关键的是,我们的‘混淆基准’揭示了比简单属性交换更深层的缺陷:模型对低熵干扰项(如重复物体或颜色)极为敏感,表明其组合失败超出已知的词袋局限。我们还发现一个意外权衡:视觉语言上下文虽有助于空间推理,但会因视觉杂乱干扰局部属性绑定。我们已开源Auto-Comp管道及所有生成基准(https://huggingface.co/AutoComp)。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit a critical flaw in compositional reasoning, often confusing "a red cube and a blue sphere" with "a blue cube and a red sphere". Disentangling the visual and linguistic roots of these failures is a fundamental challenge for robust evaluation. To enable fine-grained, controllable analysis, we introduce Auto-Comp, a fully automated and synthetic pipeline for generating scalable benchmarks. Its controllable nature is key to dissecting and isolating different reasoning skills. Auto-Comp generates paired images from Minimal (e.g., "a monitor to the left of a bicycle on a white background") and LLM-generated Contextual captions (e.g., "In a brightly lit photography studio, a monitor is positioned to the left of a bicycle"), allowing a controlled A/B test to disentangle core binding ability from visio-linguistic complexity. Our evaluation of 20 VLMs on novel benchmarks for color binding and spatial relations reveals universal compositional failures in both CLIP and SigLIP model families. Crucially, our novel "Confusion Benchmark" reveals a deeper flaw beyond simple attribute swaps: models are highly susceptible to low-entropy distractors (e.g., repeated objects or colors), demonstrating their compositional failures extend beyond known bag-of-words limitations. we uncover a surprising trade-off: visio-linguistic context, which provides global scene cues, aids spatial reasoning but simultaneously hinders local attribute binding by introducing visual clutter. We release the Auto-Comp pipeline to facilitate future benchmark creation, alongside all our generated benchmarks (https://huggingface.co/AutoComp).

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