While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate promising multilingual capabilities, their evaluation is currently hindered by two critical limitations: (1) the use of non-parallel corpora, which conflates inherent language capability gaps with dataset artifacts, precluding a fair assessment of cross-lingual alignment; and (2) disjointed multimodal inputs, which deviate from real-world scenarios where most texts are embedded within visual contexts. To address these challenges, we propose PM4Bench, the first Multilingual Multi-Modal Multi-task Benchmark constructed on a strictly parallel corpus across 10 languages. By eliminating content divergence, our benchmark enables a fair comparison of model capabilities across different languages. We also introduce a vision setting where textual queries are visually fused into images, compelling models to jointly "see," "read," and "think". Extensive evaluation of 10 LVLMs uncover a substantial performance drop in the Vision setting compared to standard inputs. Further analysis reveals that OCR capability is not only a general bottleneck but also contributes to cross-lingual performance disparities, suggesting that improving multilingual OCR is essential for advancing LVLM performance. We will release PM4Bench at https://github.com/opendatalab/PM4Bench .
@article{arxiv.2503.18484,
title = {PM4Bench: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models with Parallel Multilingual Multi-Modal Multi-task Corpus},
author = {Junyuan Gao and Jiahe Song and Jiang Wu and Runchuan Zhu and Guanlin Shen and Shasha Wang and Xingjian Wei and Haote Yang and Songyang Zhang and Weijia Li and Bin Wang and Dahua Lin and Lijun Wu and Conghui He},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.18484},
year = {2026}
}