AI BENCHMARK PROFILE
TRAPSBench
TRAPSBench is a procedurally generated video benchmark with 1,404 physics pairs to test epistemic restraint in VLMs, using Penalized Epistemic Calibration Score (PECS).
- Released
- 2026-08-13
- Readiness
- Paper only
- Primary field
- General AI
Why it matters
It highlights that VLMs can internally detect when abstention is required but fail to express it, offering a metric for calibration and restraint evaluation.
Motivation
When visual evidence is occluded or chaotic, models should abstain.
Primary resources
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