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In professional life sciences workflows, scientists routinely interpret visual artifacts (gel blots, microscopy images, plasmid maps, flow cytometry plots, molecular structures, ...) to inform research decisions.
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In professional life sciences workflows, scientists routinely interpret visual artifacts (gel blots, microscopy images, plasmid maps, flow cytometry plots, molecular structures, ...) to inform research decisions. We introduce VIALS, a visual question-answering benchmark with 161 such interpretation tasks, spanning the types of artifacts examined throughout experimental workflows in the biotech industry (rather than polished figures from publications and textbooks). While frontier vision-language models can now fluently describe natural images, we find that they are unable to accurately interpr...
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Publisher: arxiv.org
ID: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21357v1 · Indexed 7 days ago