MMErroR: A Benchmark for Erroneous Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Yang Shi, Yifeng Xie, Minzhe Guo, Liangsi Lu, Mingxuan Huang +4 more
1/6/2026
cs.CVcs.AIcs.LG

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Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have improved performance in multi-modal learning, raising the question of whether these models truly understand the content they process. Crucially, can VLMs detect when a reasoning process is wrong and identify its error type? To answer this, we present MMErroR, a multi-modal benchmark of 2,013 samples, each embedding a single coherent reasoning error. These samples span 24 subdomains across six top-level domains, ensuring broad coverage and taxonomic richness. Unlike existing benchmarks that focus on answer correctness, MMErroR targets a process-level, error-centric evaluation that requires models to detect incorrect reasoning and classify the error type within both visual and linguistic contexts. We evaluate 20 advanced VLMs, even the best model (Gemini-3.0-Pro) classifies the error in only 66.47\% of cases, underscoring the challenge of identifying erroneous reasoning. Furthermore, the ability to accurately identify errors offers valuable insights into the capabilities of multi-modal reasoning models. Project Page: https://mmerror-benchmark.github.io

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@article{shi2026mmerror,
  title  = {MMErroR: A Benchmark for Erroneous Reasoning in Vision-Language Models},
  author = {Yang Shi and Yifeng Xie and Minzhe Guo and Liangsi Lu and Mingxuan Huang and Jingchao Wang and Zhihong Zhu and Boyan Xu and Zhiqi Huang},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2601.03331},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03331v1}
}

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