Existing multilingual benchmarks for Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) suffer from limitations including language-specific content biases, disjointed multimodal input formats, and a lack of safety evaluation. To address these gaps, we propose PM4Bench, the first Parallel Multilingual Multi-Modal Multi-task Benchmark for LVLMs. PM4Bench features a parallel corpus design across 10 languages, enabling fair and accurate cross-lingual comparisons. It includes the vision setting where text and queries are embedded in images, requiring LVLMs to simultaneously "see", "read", and "think", aligning with real-world applications. Additionally, PM\textsuperscript{4}Bench incorporates safety evaluations, addressing critical oversight in existing multilingual benchmarks. Using PM4Bench, we evaluate 11 mainstream LVLMs, revealing significant cross-linguistic performance disparities, particularly in vision settings, and identifying OCR capability as a key determinant of these imbalances. We will release PM4Bench atthis https URL.
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title={ PM4Bench: A Parallel Multilingual Multi-Modal Multi-task Benchmark for Large Vision Language Model },
author={ Junyuan Gao and Jiahe Song and Jiang Wu and Runchuan Zhu and Guanlin Shen and Shasha Wang and Xingjian Wei and Haote Yang and Songyang Zhang and Weijia Li and Bin Wang and Dahua Lin and Lijun Wu and Conghui He },
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.18484},
year={ 2025 }
}