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Putting Captions to the Test: Evaluating Video Caption Quality through Multiple-Choice Question Answering.

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Researchers at Apple Machine Learning Research propose evaluating video caption quality through multiple-choice question answering rather than matching generated text against ground-truth references.

Why it matters: The reference-matching paradigm is limited by the one-to-many nature of video description.

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“Evaluating video captioning remains a critical challenge for Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Existing metrics primarily rely on matching generated text against ground-truth references.”
Apple Machine Learning Research, 11 Sept 2026, 00:00.

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