WorldCuisines Leaderboard
Which Visual Language Model (VLM) is the BEST on understanding culture through food?
๐ Welcome to the WorldCuisines leaderboard! The leaderboard evaluates VLM's multilinguality and multicultural understanding based on dishes around the world.
- Dish Name (No Context): predict the name of a dish based on its image and question without any context.
- Dish Name (Contextualized): predict the name of a dish based on its image and question with additional context information.
- Dish Name (Adversarial): predict the name of a dish based on its image and the question with adversarial context.
- Location: predict the location where the food is commonly consumed and originated given the dish image, question, and a context.
Each test set has two settings:
- MCQ: multiple choice questions
- OEQ: open-ended questions
How to evaluate your model and submit your results?
Please refer to the guideline in Github README to evaluate your own model (soon to be released).
โน๏ธ The model utilizes an optimized prompt (Check our repository for details) instead of the original one.
Model | Avg | Dish Name (No Context) | Dish Name (Contextualized) | Dish Name (Adversarial) | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B | 81.17 | 78.17 | 90.43 | 82.23 | 56.73 |
Model | Avg | Dish Name (No Context) | Dish Name (Contextualized) | Dish Name (Adversarial) | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B | 82.21 | 88.45 | 91.57 | 82.29 | 66.52 |
Model | Avg | Dish Name (No Context) | Dish Name (Contextualized) | Dish Name (Adversarial) | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B | 25.05 | 14.27 | 35.47 | 12.6 | 35.53 |
Model | Avg | Dish Name (No Context) | Dish Name (Contextualized) | Dish Name (Adversarial) | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B | 27.83 | 21.88 | 37.51 | 14.79 | 37.13 |
Abstract
Vision Language Models (VLMs) often struggle with culture-specific knowledge, particularly in languages other than English and in underrepresented cultural contexts. To evaluate their understanding of such knowledge, we introduce WorldCuisines, a massive-scale benchmark for multilingual and multicultural, visually grounded language understanding. This benchmark includes a visual question answering (VQA) dataset with text-image pairs across 30 languages and dialects, spanning 9 language families and featuring over 1 million data points, making it the largest multicultural VQA benchmark to date. It includes tasks for identifying dish names and their origins, and we provide evaluation datasets in two sizes (12k and 60k instances) alongside a training dataset (1 million instances). Our findings show that while VLMs perform better with correct location context, they struggle with adversarial contexts and predicting specific regional cuisines and languages. To support future research, we release a knowledge base with annotated food entries and images along with the VQA data.
Resources
WorldCuisines Leaderboard Submission Instructions
โ Please note that you need to submit the json file with following format:
{
"Model": "[NAME]",
"Repo": "https://huggingface.co/[MODEL_NAME]",
"Dish Name (No Context)": 50,
"Dish Name (Contextualized)": 50,
"Dish Name (Adversarial)": 50,
"Location": 50
}
Then, select which benchmark you are submitting to. After submitting, you can click the "Refresh" button to see the updated leaderboard (it may take few seconds).