spawlonka/bongard-rwr-plus-l6

Bongard RWR+/L6

This is a variant of the dataset that features six images per side and reduced image diversity across instances. The original dataset is available here.

Bongard Problems (BPs) provide a challenging testbed for abstract visual reasoning (AVR), requiring models to identify visual concepts from just a few examples and describe them in natural language. Early BP benchmarks featured synthetic black-and-white drawings, which might not fully capture the complexity of real-world scenes. Subsequent BP datasets employed real-world images, albeit %with real-world the represented concepts are identifiable from high-level image features, reducing the task complexity. Differently, the recently released Bongard-RWR dataset aimed at representing abstract concepts formulated in the original BPs using fine-grained real-world images. Its manual construction, however, limited the dataset size to just $60$ instances, constraining evaluation robustness. In this work, we introduce Bongard-RWR+, a BP dataset composed of $5,400$ instances that represent original BP abstract concepts using real-world-like images generated via a vision language model (VLM) pipeline. Building on Bongard-RWR, we employ Pixtral-12B to describe manually curated images and generate new descriptions aligned with the underlying concepts, use Flux.1-dev to synthesize images from these descriptions, and manually verify that the generated images faithfully reflect the intended concepts. We evaluate state-of-the-art VLMs across diverse BP formulations, including binary and multiclass classification, as well as textual answer generation. Our findings reveal that while VLMs can recognize coarse-grained visual concepts, they consistently struggle with discerning fine-grained concepts, highlighting limitations in their reasoning capabilities.

Field Descriptions

Field	Type	Description
id	int	Unique identifier for the Bongard problem instance.
left_images	list	List of paths to 6 images from the left side + 1 test image.
right_images	list	List of paths to 6 images from the right side + 1 test image.
left_side_image	str	Path to a stitched image containing all left-side images.
right_side_image	str	Path to a stitched image containing all right-side images.
whole_image	str	Path to a stitched image showing both sides side-by-side.

Release Date

15.05.2025

Licensing

Bongard-RWR+ is released under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please cite the corresponding paper if you use this dataset in your research.