---
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- found
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- expert-generated
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license:
- cc-by-sa-4.0
multilinguality:
- multilingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- image-text-to-text
- cross-modal-retrieval
task_ids:
- topic-classification
pretty_name: MVL-SIB
language_details: ace_Arab, ace_Latn, acm_Arab, acq_Arab, aeb_Arab, afr_Latn, ajp_Arab,
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  fra_Latn, fur_Latn, fuv_Latn, gla_Latn, gle_Latn, glg_Latn, grn_Latn, guj_Gujr,
  hat_Latn, hau_Latn, heb_Hebr, hin_Deva, hne_Deva, hrv_Latn, hun_Latn, hye_Armn,
  ibo_Latn, ilo_Latn, ind_Latn, isl_Latn, ita_Latn, jav_Latn, jpn_Jpan, kab_Latn,
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  ory_Orya, pag_Latn, pan_Guru, pap_Latn, pol_Latn, por_Latn, prs_Arab, pbt_Arab,
  quy_Latn, ron_Latn, run_Latn, rus_Cyrl, sag_Latn, san_Deva, sat_Beng, scn_Latn,
  shn_Mymr, sin_Sinh, slk_Latn, slv_Latn, smo_Latn, sna_Latn, snd_Arab, som_Latn,
  sot_Latn, spa_Latn, als_Latn, srd_Latn, srp_Cyrl, ssw_Latn, sun_Latn, swe_Latn,
  swh_Latn, szl_Latn, tam_Taml, tat_Cyrl, tel_Telu, tgk_Cyrl, tgl_Latn, tha_Thai,
  tir_Ethi, taq_Latn, taq_Tfng, tpi_Latn, tsn_Latn, tso_Latn, tuk_Latn, tum_Latn,
  tur_Latn, twi_Latn, tzm_Tfng, uig_Arab, ukr_Cyrl, umb_Latn, urd_Arab, uzn_Latn,
  vec_Latn, vie_Latn, war_Latn, wol_Latn, xho_Latn, ydd_Hebr, yor_Latn, yue_Hant,
  zho_Hans, zho_Hant, zul_Latn
tags:
- sib-200
- sib200
---

# MVL-SIB: Massively Multilingual Visual-Language SIB

## Introduction

MVL-SIB is a multilingual dataset that provides image-sentence pairs spanning 205 languages and 7 topical categories (`entertainment`, `geography`, `health`, `politics`, `science`, `sports`, `travel`). It was constructed by extending the [SIB-200](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Davlan/sib200) benchmark. For each topic, a set of [10 permissively licensed images](https://huggingface.co/datasets/WueNLP/mvl-sib200/tree/main/data/images/sib200) was manually collected to distinctly represent each category. The dataset creates three instances per original sentence, pairing it with multiple positive and negative image-sentence combinations to challenge both multimodal reasoning and language understanding. MVL-SIB supports detailed evaluations across text-only and cross-modal tasks.

Paper: [MVL-SIB: A Massively Multilingual Vision-Language Benchmark for Cross-Modal Topical Matching](https://huggingface.co/papers/2502.12852)

## Usage Example

Below is an example of how to load and use the MVL-SIB dataset with the Hugging Face `datasets` library in Python:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the MVL-SIB dataset for the 'img2sent' (or 'sent2img') task in English
dataset = load_dataset("wuenlp/mvl-sib200", name="img2sent.eng_Latn", trust_remote_code=True)

print(dataset[0])
{'images': ['.cache/huggingface/hub/datasets--wuenlp--mvl-sib/snapshots/96384481f8688607140d69ca45de30cdb18c8596/data/images/sib200/health_5.jpg',
  '.cache/huggingface/hub/datasets--wuenlp--mvl-sib/snapshots/96384481f8688607140d69ca45de30cdb18c8596/data/images/sib200/health_3.jpg',
  '.cache/huggingface/hub/datasets--wuenlp--mvl-sib/snapshots/96384481f8688607140d69ca45de30cdb18c8596/data/images/sib200/health_4.jpg',
  '.cache/huggingface/hub/datasets--wuenlp--mvl-sib/snapshots/96384481f8688607140d69ca45de30cdb18c8596/data/images/sib200/health_6.jpg',
  '.cache/huggingface/hub/datasets--wuenlp--mvl-sib/snapshots/96384481f8688607140d69ca45de30cdb18c8596/data/images/sib200/health_1.jpg'],
 'sentences': ['Der „typische” Besuch beinhaltet die Flugreise zum internationalen Flughafen von Orlando, dann die Busfahrt zu einem Disney-Hotel auf dem Gelände, danach einen etwa wochenlangen Aufenthalt dort, ohne das Disney-Gelände zu verlassen, und anschließend die Heimreise.',
  'Das KI-System wird heute häufig in den Bereichen Wirtschaft, Medizin, Ingenieurwesen und Militär eingesetzt und ist zudem in zahlreiche Softwareanwendungen für Heimcomputer und Videospiele eingebaut worden.',
  'Am Montag haben die Wisenschaftler der Stanford University School of Medicine die Erfindung eines neuen Diagnosetools bekanntgegeben, mit dem Zellen nach ihrem Typ sortiert werden können: ein winziger, ausdruckbarer Chip, der für jeweils etwa einen US-Cent mit Standard-Tintenstrahldruckern hergestellt werden kann.',
  '1895 unterzeichnete die Regierung der Qing-Dynastie nach der Niederlage im ersten Chinesisch-Japanischen Krieg (1894-1895) den Vertrag von Shimonoseki, in dem sie die Souveränität über Taiwan an Japan abtrat, welches die Insel bis 1945 regierte.'],
 'categories': ['travel', 'science', 'health', 'politics'],
 'label': 2,
 'id': 0,
 'index_id': 0}
```

## Tasks

Large vision-language models must select one of 4 candidate sentences that best matches the topic of the reference images (\`images-to-sentence') or, conversely, choose one of 4 candidate images corresponding to the topic of the reference sentences (\`sentences-to-image'). We present the model with the list of topics that images and sentences may be associated with. Otherwise, it would be unclear along which dimension the model should match images and sentences. The portion of the prompt that introduces the task is provided in English, while the sentences to be topically aligned with images are presented in one of the 205 languages included in MVL-SIB.

### Images-To-Sentence

![Images-To-Sentence](./mvl-sib_images-to-sentence.png)

#### Suggested Prompt

```markdown
Which sentence best matches the topic of the images? The images and the sentences each belong
to one of the following topics: "entertainment", "geography", "health", "politics", "science and technology", "sports", or "travel". Choose one sentence from A, B, C, or D. Output only a single letter!

# Images
<IMG_TOKENS>
<IMG_TOKENS>
<IMG_TOKENS>
<IMG_TOKENS>
<IMG_TOKENS>

# Sentences

A. ```Maroochydore führte am Ende die Rangfolge an, mit sechs Punkten Vorsprung vor Noosa als Zweitem.```
B. ```Es wurden keine schwere Verletzungen gemeldet, jedoch mussten mindestens fünf der zur Zeit der Explosion Anwesenden aufgrund von Schocksymptomen behandelt werden.```
C. ```Finnland ist ein großartiges Reiseziel für Bootstouren. Das „Land der tausend Seen“ hat auch Tausende von Inseln – in den Seen und in den Küstenarchipelen.```
D. ```Es ist auch nicht erforderlich, dass Sie eine lokale Nummer von der Gemeinde erhalten, in der Sie leben. Sie können eine Internetverbindung über Satellit in der Wildnis v on Chicken in Alaska erhalten und eine Nummer auswählen, die vorgibt, dass Sie im sonnigen Arizona
sind.```

Your answer letter:
```

### Sentences-To-Image

![Sentences-To-Image](./mvl-sib_sentences-to-image.png)

#### Suggested Prompt

```markdown
Which image best matches the topic of the sentences? The sentences and the images each belong to one of the following topics: "entertainment", "geography", "health", "politics", "science and technology", "sports", or "travel". Choose one image from A, B, C, or D. Output only a single letter!

# Sentences

- ```Maroochydore führte am Ende die Rangfolge an, mit sechs Punkten Vorsprung vor Noosa als Zweitem.```
- ```Die Schlagmänner der mittleren Reihe, Sachin Tendulkar und Rahul Dravid, zeigten gute Leistungen und erzielten eine Partnerschaft mit 100 Runs.```
- ```Da pro Tag nur achtzehn Medaillen zur Verfügung stehen, hat es ein Anzahl an Ländern nicht auf das Podium geschafft.```
- ```Wintersportarten sind in den nördlichen Regionen am beliebtesten und Italiener nehmen an internationalen Wettkämpfen und olympischen Spielen teil.```
- ```Nach dem Rennen bleibt Keselowski mit 2.250 Punkten Spitzenreiter in der Fahrerwertung```

# Images

A. <IMG_TOKENS>
B. <IMG_TOKENS>
C. <IMG_TOKENS>
D. <IMG_TOKENS>

Your answer letter: 
```
# Languages

The list of languages availabe in MVL-SIB is available [here](https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/blob/main/flores200/README.md#languages-in-flores-200). In addition, [SIB-200](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Davlan/sib200) also adds N'Koo.

# Citation

Should you be using MVL-SIB or refer to the findings of our paper, please cite us per below:

```
@misc{schmidt2025mvlsibmassivelymultilingualvisionlanguage,
      title={MVL-SIB: A Massively Multilingual Vision-Language Benchmark for Cross-Modal Topical Matching}, 
      author={Fabian David Schmidt and Florian Schneider and Chris Biemann and Goran Glavaš},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.12852},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12852}, 
}
```