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VIALS

Multimodal · 2026-08-21

Handshake AI's VIALS (Visual Interpretation of Artifacts in the Life Sciences) is a visual question-answering benchmark of 161 expert-written tasks on artifacts from biotech and pharmaceutical R&D: gels and blots, phylogenetic trees, flow-cytometry plots, plasmid maps, cell-counting images, protein-structure and binding views, and small-molecule structures. Models see only the image(s) and question at their provider's default inference settings, and a GPT-5-mini judge decides whether the final answer matches the held-out ground truth (or falls in an accepted numeric range). Accuracy is averaged over three rollouts per task; failed or refused requests count as incorrect.

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