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EvoLMM: Self-Evolving Large Multimodal Models with Continuous Rewards

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Recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) have enabled impressive reasoning and perception abilities, yet most existing training pipelines still depend on human-curated data or externally verified reward models, limiting their autonomy and scalability. In this work, we strive to improve LMM reasoning capabilities in a purely unsupervised fashion (without any annotated data or reward distillation). To this end, we propose a self-evolving framework, named EvoLMM, that instantiates two cooperative agents from a single backbone model: a Proposer, which generates diverse, image-grounded questions, and a Solver, which solves them through internal consistency, where learning proceeds through a continuous self-rewarding process. This dynamic feedback encourages both the generation of informative queries and the refinement of structured reasoning without relying on ground-truth or human judgments. When using the popular Qwen2.5-VL as the base model, our EvoLMM yields consistent gains upto $\sim$3\% on multimodal math-reasoning benchmarks, including ChartQA, MathVista, and MathVision, using only raw training images. We hope our simple yet effective approach will serve as a solid baseline easing future research in self-improving LMMs in a fully-unsupervised fashion. Our code and models are available at https://github.com/mbzuai-oryx/EvoLMM.

Omkar Thawakar, Shravan Venkatraman, Ritesh Thawkar, Abdelrahman Shaker, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman Khan, Fahad Khan• 2025

Related benchmarks

TaskDatasetResultRank
Object Hallucination EvaluationPOPE--
1455
Instruction FollowingIFEval--
625
Multi-discipline Multimodal UnderstandingMMMU
Accuracy55.31
317
Visual Mathematical ReasoningMathVista
Accuracy70.52
278
Document Visual Question AnsweringDocVQA--
263
Science Question AnsweringScienceQA (test)
Average Accuracy89.5
245
Optical Character RecognitionOCRBench
Score85
232
Visual Mathematical ReasoningMathVision
Accuracy24.81
186
Multimodal UnderstandingMMMU (val)--
152
Multimodal ReasoningMMStar
Accuracy61.53
143
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