SEED-Bench-2-Plus

Overview

SEED-Bench-2-Plus is a large-scale benchmark designed to evaluate Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on text-rich visual understanding tasks. It contains 2.3K multiple-choice questions with precise human annotations across real-world scenarios.

Task Description

• Task Type: Text-Rich Visual Question Answering

• Input: Image containing text-rich content + multiple-choice question

• Output: Correct answer choice letter (A/B/C/D)

• Domains: Charts, maps, web interfaces

Key Features

• Focuses on text-rich visual scenarios common in real applications

• Three broad categories: Charts, Maps, and Webs

• Human-annotated questions with high quality

• Tests understanding of complex visual layouts with text

• Multiple difficulty levels within each category

Evaluation Notes

• Default evaluation uses the test split

• Available subsets: chart, web, map

• Primary metric: Accuracy on multiple-choice questions

• Uses Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting for reasoning

• Rich metadata including data source, type, and difficulty level

Properties

Property	Value
Benchmark Name	seed_bench_2_plus
Dataset ID	evalscope/SEED-Bench-2-Plus
Paper	N/A
Tags	Knowledge, MCQ, MultiModal, Reasoning
Metrics	acc
Default Shots	0-shot
Evaluation Split	test

Data Statistics

Metric	Value
Total Samples	2,277
Prompt Length (Mean)	393.01 chars
Prompt Length (Min/Max)	280 / 710 chars

Per-Subset Statistics:

Subset	Samples	Prompt Mean	Prompt Min	Prompt Max
chart	810	390.92	280	663
web	660	395.56	294	664
map	807	393.02	282	710

Image Statistics:

Metric	Value
Total Images	2,277
Images per Sample	min: 1, max: 1, mean: 1
Resolution Range	800x800 - 800x800
Formats	png

Sample Example

Subset: chart

{
  "input": [
    {
      "id": "7fdf638f",
      "content": [
        {
          "text": "Answer the following multiple choice question. The last line of your response should be of the following format: 'ANSWER: [LETTER]' (without quotes) where [LETTER] is one of A,B,C,D. Think step by step before answering.\n\nAccording to the tree diagram, how many women who have breast cancer received a negative mammogram?\n\nA) 80\nB) 950\nC) 20\nD) 8,950"
        },
        {
          "image": "[BASE64_IMAGE: png, ~68.1KB]"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "choices": [
    "80",
    "950",
    "20",
    "8,950"
  ],
  "target": "D",
  "id": 0,
  "group_id": 0,
  "subset_key": "chart",
  "metadata": {
    "data_id": "text_rich/1.png",
    "question_id": "0",
    "question_image_subtype": "tree diagram",
    "data_source": "SEED-Bench v2 plus",
    "data_type": "Single Image",
    "level": "L1",
    "subpart": "Single-Image & Text Comprehension",
    "version": "v2+"
  }
}

Prompt Template

Prompt Template:

Answer the following multiple choice question. The last line of your response should be of the following format: 'ANSWER: [LETTER]' (without quotes) where [LETTER] is one of {letters}. Think step by step before answering.

{question}

{choices}

Usage

Using CLI

evalscope eval \
    --model YOUR_MODEL \
    --api-url OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL \
    --api-key EMPTY_TOKEN \
    --datasets seed_bench_2_plus \
    --limit 10  # Remove this line for formal evaluation

Using Python

from evalscope import run_task
from evalscope.config import TaskConfig

task_cfg = TaskConfig(
    model='YOUR_MODEL',
    api_url='OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL',
    api_key='EMPTY_TOKEN',
    datasets=['seed_bench_2_plus'],
    dataset_args={
        'seed_bench_2_plus': {
            # subset_list: ['chart', 'web', 'map']  # optional, evaluate specific subsets
        }
    },
    limit=10,  # Remove this line for formal evaluation
)

run_task(task_cfg=task_cfg)