MicroVQA: A Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark for Microscopy-Based Scientific Research
James Burgess, Jeffrey J. Nirschl, Laura Bravo-Sánchez, Alejandro Lozano, Sanket Rajan Gupte, Jesus G. Galaz-Montoya, Yuhui Zhang, Yuchang Su, Disha Bhowmik, Zachary Coman, Sarina M. Hasan, Alexandra Johannesson
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Abstract
eralization errors. These insights highlight the challenges in multimodal scientific reasoning, showing MicroVQA is a valuable resource advancing AI-driven biomedical research. MicroVQA is available here, project here.
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