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HEIM

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Text-to-image models are scored on 12 aspects, such as alignment, quality, aesthetics, originality, reasoning, knowledge, bias and toxicity, with human raters and automatic metrics.

NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks. Image generation has no own subcategory in the taxonomy, so it sits under video generation.

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Stanford CRFM
Released
November 2023
Kind
Image generation and editing
Level
Everyday
Scored
Graded by people
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
All public

In the authors’ words

The stunning qualitative improvement of recent text-to-image models has led to their widespread attention and adoption. However, we lack a comprehensive quantitative understanding of their capabilities and risks. To fill this gap, we introduce a new benchmark, Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (HEIM). Whereas previous evaluations focus mostly on text-image alignment and image quality, we identify 12 aspects, including text-image alignment, image quality, aesthetics, originality, reasoning, knowledge, bias, toxicity, fairness, robustness, multilinguality, and efficiency. We curate 62 scenarios encompassing these aspects and evaluate 26 state-of-the-art text-to-image models on this benchmark. Our results reveal that no single model excels in all aspects, with different models demonstrating different strengths. We release the generated images and human evaluation results for full transparency at https://crfm.stanford.edu/heim/v1.1.0 and the code at https://github.com/stanford-crfm/helm, which is integrated with the HELM codebase.

Abstract of Holistic Evaluation of Text-To-Image Models (arXiv:2311.04287, CC0)

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