NoteVQA: Benchmarking VLMs on Real-Life Questions from Human Communities

arXiv:2609.15695 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-20

Comments: 30 pages, 13 figures

Code: https://github.com/AllSpark-Research/notevqa

Project page: https://modern-forager.com/mushroomidentification-edibility-systematic-approach

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 38× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Retrieval — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Perplexity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Agentic Search — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Information Gain — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Thinking mode — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Vision-language models — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In International Conference on Learning Representations — 2× in this paper
• Agent Harness — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alternation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 1× in this paper
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Midwest American Mycological Information — 1× in this paper
• North American Mycological Association — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Seeking and Updating with Live Visual Knowledge
• VistaHop: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Visual DeepSearch
• MMDeepResearch-Bench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Deep Research Agents
• MMSearch: Benchmarking the Potential of Large Models as Multi-modal Search Engines
• MM-BrowseComp: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Browsing Agents
• Seed2.0 Model Card: Towards Intelligence Frontier for Real-World Complexity
• Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
• ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
• MiroEval: Benchmarking Multimodal Deep Research Agents in Process and Outcome
• Vision-DeepResearch Benchmark: Rethinking Visual and Textual Search for Multimodal Large Language Models
• Towards Verifiable Multimodal Deep Research: A Multi-Agent Harness for Interleaved Report Generation

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