Can MLLMs Decode the Creative Leap? Introducing C4 for Cross-Concept Understanding

arXiv:2608.06501 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.MM · Submitted 2026-08-06 · Read on arXiv

Ming Wang, Yuqing Zhang, Tingna Xie, Xiangju Li, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.MM

Submitted: 2026-08-06

Updated: 2026-08-10

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 21× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• MLLMs — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Composition — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Evaluation Framework — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Compositionality — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Faithfulness — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generator — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• MME: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
• MM-Vet: Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Integrated Capabilities
• MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI
• CMMMU: A Chinese Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark
• REBUS: A Robust Evaluation Benchmark of Understanding Symbols
• OpenAI GPT-5 System Card
• Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence
• MiMo-V2-Flash Technical Report
• GLM-4.5V and GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning
• InternVL3.5: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal Models in Versatility, Reasoning, and Efficiency
• Gemma 3 Technical Report
• NVIDIA Nemotron Nano V2 VL
• Qwen3-VL Technical Report

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