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Are Image Generators Zero-Shot Perceivers? A Rigorous Evaluation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Recent work, such as Vision Banana, shows that lightweight instruction tuning can enable an image generator to achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple visual perception tasks. Motivated by this perspective, we ask how far image generators can go on public visual perception benchmarks in a zero-shot setting. We introduce ProbeGen, a benchmark for zero-shot generative perception that casts monocular depth estimation, referring/reasoning segmentation, and object counting as conditional generation tasks specified through text prompts, and compares 20 models in total---including propri

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