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Technology & AIAug 3, 2026

CAPEval: A Decoupled Caption Evaluation across Understanding and Generation

Captions serve as a primary supervision signal for both multimodal understanding and text-to-image generation.

Captions serve as a primary supervision signal for both multimodal understanding and text-to-image generation. However, previous evaluations treat the caption quality as a single scalar objective, which conflates two distinct properties: (1) how much visual information a caption…

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