Putting Captions to the Test: Evaluating Video Caption Quality through Multiple-Choice Question Answering
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- 11 Sept 2026
- T1 · 4 h ago
- arXiv
- 2609.09973
- T1 · 4 h ago
Abstract
Evaluating video captioning remains a critical challenge for Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Existing metrics primarily rely on matching generated text against ground-truth references. This paradigm suffers from the “one-to-many” nature of video description, where high-quality captions are often penalized for lexical mismatches or valid shifts in visual focus. Furthermore, such assessments are typically one-dimensional, failing to provide a fine-grained analysis of caption quality. To address this, we redefine caption quality via information fidelity: A caption must maximize the coverage…
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Zizhen Wang, Bo Feng, Zhengfeng Lai, Shiyu Li, Yang Lu, Meng Cao, Ping Huang, Simon Wang
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- 2609.09973
Source:Apple Machine Learning ResearchT1observed 4 h agohigh
Source:Apple Machine Learning ResearchT1observed 4 h agohigh
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- 11 Sept 2026
Source:Apple Machine Learning ResearchT1observed 4 h agohigh
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| Evaluating video captioning remains a critical challenge for Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Existing metrics primarily rely on matching generated text against ground-truth references. This paradigm suffers from the “one-to-many” nature of video description, where high-quality captions are often penalized for lexical mismatches or valid shifts in visual focus. Furthermore, such assessments are typically one-dimensional, failing to provide a fine-grained analysis of caption quality. To address this, we redefine caption quality via information fidelity: A caption must maximize the coverage… | → current | current | Apple Machine Learning ResearchT1 | high | deterministic |
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