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    <h1>Evaluating Multimodal Systems</h1><p>How to evaluate multimodal systems without confusing benchmarks with real capability: OCR, audio, grounding, reasoning and metric failures.</p>
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    <div class="s5-video-watch__snippet-grid"><article><span>01</span><h2>1. What it means to evaluate grounding</h2><p>In multimodal systems, grounding is the degree to which the model&#x27;s answer is supported by the actual content of the image or audio, rather than by statistical inferences about what kind…</p></article>
<article><span>02</span><h2>2. The problem of benchmark contamination</h2><p>The second systematic problem is contamination. Foundation models are pretrained on massive amounts of internet data, and there is no guarantee that image-description pairs or evaluation…</p></article>
<article><span>03</span><h2>3. Language bias: answering from probability, not evidence</h2><p>The language bias/prior is the tendency of models to generate answers that are statistically likely given the text of the question, regardless of the image content. It is the subtlest form…</p></article></div>
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