MIA-Bench
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B 92.7% leads since September 2025 Models answer 400 image prompts that stack several strict instructions on format, length and content. An LLM judge scores how well each answer follows every instruction.
ICLR 2025 paper. Reported in Qwen-VL reports under alignment.
- Made by
- Apple
- Released
- July 2024
- Kind
- General visual questions
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Graded by a model
- Answers
- Open-ended
- Tasks
- All public
- Last in a launch post
- September 2025, dropped after it saturated
- Last model added
- January 2026
In the authors’ words
We introduce MIA-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on their ability to strictly adhere to complex instructions. Our benchmark comprises a diverse set of 400 image-prompt pairs, each crafted to challenge the models' compliance with layered instructions in generating accurate responses that satisfy specific requested patterns. Evaluation results from a wide array of state-of-the-art MLLMs reveal significant variations in performance, highlighting areas for improvement in instruction fidelity. Additionally, we create extra training data and explore supervised fine-tuning to enhance the models' ability to strictly follow instructions without compromising performance on other tasks. We hope this benchmark not only serves as a tool for measuring MLLM adherence to instructions, but also guides future developments in MLLM training methods.
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B leads with 92.7%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
Source: Labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B | 92.7% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 2 |  STEP3-VL-10B | 92% | Jan 2026 | Lab model card |
Number one over time
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Qwen’s own number for Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B passed 85% in September 2025
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Labs dropped it from launch posts once the best score passed 85%
Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2025 | Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B | 92.7 | MIABench |
2 system cards report it, from 2 labs
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2026 | STEP3-VL-10B technical report | 92 | MIA-Bench, SeRe (Table 1) | Capabilities |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B technical report | 92.7 | MIA-Bench (Table 2) | Capabilities |
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