Recent times have witnessed an increasing number of applications of deep neural networks towards solving tasks that require superior cognitive abilities, e.g., playing Go, generating art, ChatGPT, etc. Such a dramatic progress raises the question: how generalizable are neural networks in solving problems that demand broad skills? To answer this question, we propose SMART: a Simple Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning Task (and the associated SMART-101 dataset) for evaluating the abstraction, deduction, and generalization abilities of neural networks in solving visuo-linguistic puzzles designed specifically for children of younger age (6--8). Our dataset consists of 101 unique puzzles; each puzzle comprises a picture and a question, and their solution needs a mix of several elementary skills, including pattern recognition, algebra, and spatial reasoning, among others. To train deep neural networks, we programmatically augment each puzzle to 2,000 new instances; each instance varied in appea
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Recent advances in large language models have led to the development of multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), which take both image data and text as an input. Virtually all of these models have been announced within the past year, leading to a significant need for benchmarks evaluating the abilities of these models to reason truthfully and accurately on a diverse set of tasks. When Google announced Gemini (Gemini Team et al., 2023), they showcased its ability to solve rebuses—wordplay puzzles which involve creatively adding and subtracting letters from words derived from text and images. The diversity of rebuses allows for a broad evaluation of multimodal reasoning capabilities, including image recognition, multi- step reasoning, and understanding the human creator’s intent. We present REBUS: a collection of 333 hand-crafted rebuses spanning 13 diverse cate- gories, including hand-drawn and digital images created by nine contributors. Samples are presented in Table 1. Notably, GPT-4V, the most powe
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