FoodieQA

Official repo for EMNLP 2024 paper FoodieQA: A Multimodal Dataset for Fine-Grained Understanding of Chinese Food Culture

Evaluate Chinese food culture understanding of LLMs/VLMs with the FoodieQA benchmark

Benchmark

🤗 Available on HuggingFace lyan62/FoodieQA

License: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Models

Models and results for the VQA tasks

Evaluation	Multi-image VQA (ZH)	Multi-image VQA (EN)	Single-image VQA (ZH)	Single-image VQA (EN)
Human	91.69	77.22†	74.41	46.53†
Phi-3-vision-4.2B	29.03	33.75	42.58	44.53
Idefics2-8B	50.87	41.69	46.87	52.73
Mantis-8B	46.65	43.67	41.80	47.66
Qwen-VL-12B	32.26	27.54	48.83	42.97
Yi-VL-6B	-	-	49.61	41.41
Yi-VL-34B	-	-	52.73	48.05
GPT-4V	78.92	69.23	63.67	60.16
GPT-4o	86.35	80.64	72.66	67.97

Models and results for the TextQA task

Model	Best Accuracy	Prompt
Phi-3-medium	41.28	1
Mistral-7B-instruct	35.18	1
Llama3-8B-Chinese	47.38	1
YI-6B	25.53	3
YI-34B	46.38	3
Qwen2-7B-instruct	68.23	3
GPT-4	60.99	1

UI for creating and validating questions

cd ui

• See UI README for using the UI to create questions and ground truth labels for Multi-image VQA task.

cd val-ui

• See Val-UI README for using the UI for question validation.

Model evaluation

• mkdir <data_folder>
• Download the dataset from Huggingface lyan62/FoodieQA. We use a gated repo to prevent data contamination from web crawlers. Please submit a request for using the dataset.
  • data structure:
    • /images
    • sivqa_tidy.json
    • mivqa_tidy.json
    • textqa_tidy.json

Evaluation scripts

• See evaluation scripts in model-eval/scripts/
• See example bash file in model-eval/run

Run open-source models

• set up

  conda create -n foodie python=3.9
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• multi-image VQA:

  For example evaluate the mantis_idefics model:

  cd model-eval
  python scripts/eval_mantis_idefics.py 
  --data_dir <data_folder> --out_dir <out_folder>
  --cache_dir <hf_cache_dir> --prompt 0
  

• single-image VQA:

  evaluate idefics2-8b, mantis-idefics2:

    ```
    python eval_idefics_sivqa.py
    --data_dir <data_folder> --out_dir <out_folder> --cache_dir <hf_cache_dir> --template 0 --model-name <model-name>
    ```
  

  • model_name can be "TIGER-Lab/Mantis-8B-Idefics2" or "HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b"
  • template can be 0-3 to indicate which prompt to use

  similarly run Qwen-VL model with

  python eval_qwen_sivqa.py --data_dir <data_folder> --out_dir <out_folder> --cache_dir <hf_cache_dir> --template 0 --eval_file sivqa_tidy.json
  

  evaluate Yi-models, cd model-eval/Yi/VL, then run

  python foodie_inference.py --model_path models/Yi-VL-6B --data_dir <data_folder> --out_dir <out_folder> --cache_dir <hf_cache_dir> --template 0 --eval_file sivqa_tidy.json
  

Prompts

Multi-image VQA:

pgeneral = 请从给定选项ABCD中选择一个最合适的答案。
prompt 0 
<img1><img2><img3><img4>
根据以上四张图回答问题，他们分别为图A, 图B, 图C, 图D, (pgeneral), 问题：{}, 答案为：图

promtp 1
<img1>图A
<img2>图B
<img3>图C
<img4>图D
根据以上四张图回答问题, (pgeneral), 问题：{}, 答案为：图

prompt 2
根据以下四张图回答问题,(pgeneral),
<img1>图A
<img2>图B
<img3>图C
<img4>图D
问题：{}, 答案为：图

prompt 3
Human: 问题{}，选项有: 
图A<img1>
图B<img2>
图C<img3>
图D<img4>
Assistant: 如果从给定选项ABCD中选择一个最合适的答案， 答案为：图

English prompts:

prompt 0 
<img1><img2><img3><img4>
"Answer the following question according to the provided four images, they corresponds 
to Option (A), Option (B), Option (C), Option (D). Choose one best answer from the given options.
Question: {}, your answer is: Option ("

promtp 1
"Answer the following question according to the provided four images which corresponds 
to Option (A), Option (B), Option (C), Option (D). Choose one best answer from the given options.
The options are:
<img1>Option (A)
<img2>Option (B)
<img3>Option (C)
<img4>Option (D)
Question: {}, your answer is: Option ("

prompt 2
"Answer the following question according to the provided four images, 
and choose one best answer from the given options.
The options are:
<img1>Option (A)
<img2>Option (B)
<img3>Option (C)
<img4>Option (D)
Question: {}, your answer is: Option ("

prompt 3
"Human: Question{} The options are: 
Option (A)<img1>
Option (B)<img2>
Option (C)<img3>
Option (D)<img4>
Assistant: If I have to choose one best answer from the given options， the answer is：Option ("

Single-image VQA

See format_text_prompt() in model-eval/scripts/sivqa_utils.py https://github.com/lyan62/foodie-eval/blob/76a22ee16fb58bb090c0ad3eb1f35e39fc71687e/model-eval/scripts/sivqa_utils.py#L30

Citation

@inproceedings{li-etal-2024-foodieqa,
    title = "{F}oodie{QA}: A Multimodal Dataset for Fine-Grained Understanding of {C}hinese Food Culture",
    author = "Li, Wenyan  and
      Zhang, Crystina  and
      Li, Jiaang  and
      Peng, Qiwei  and
      Tang, Raphael  and
      Zhou, Li  and
      Zhang, Weijia  and
      Hu, Guimin  and
      Yuan, Yifei  and
      S{\o}gaard, Anders  and
      Hershcovich, Daniel  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    year = "2024",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1063",
    }