# HanMoVLM: Large Vision-Language Models for Professional Artistic Painting Evaluation

Source: [HanMoVLM: Large Vision-Language Models for Professional Artistic Painting Evaluation](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b24889d030084c22e2f895>)

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Data updated: 2026-03-13T05:00:04.336Z

Authors: Hongji Yang, Yucheng Zhou, Wencheng Han, Songlian Li, Xiaotong Zhao, Jianbing Shen

Published: 2026-03-11T14:21:59.000Z

## Abstract

While Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive general visual capabilities, they remain artistically blind and unable to offer professional evaluation of artworks within specific artistic domains like human experts. To bridge this gap, we transform VLMs into experts capable of professional-grade painting evaluation in the Chinese Artistic Domain, which is more abstract and demands extensive artistic training for evaluation. We introduce HanMo-Bench, a new dataset that features authentic auction-grade masterpieces and AI-generated works, grounded in real-world market valuations. To realize the rigorous judgment, we propose the HanMoVLM and construct a Chain-of-Thought (CoT) validated by experts. This CoT guides the model to perform expert-level reasoning: from content identification and Region of Interest (RoI) localization to professional evaluation, guided by both theme-specific evaluation and typical three-tier evaluation in Chinese paintings. Furthermore, we design a reward function to refine the reasoning process of the HanMoVLM to improve the accuracy. We demonstrate that HanMoVLM can serve as a critical backbone for Test-time Scaling in image generation. By acting as a high-quality verifier, HanMoVLM enables generative models to select the most artistically superior outputs from multiple candidates. Experimental results and human studies confirm that the proposed HanMoVLM effectively bridges the gap, achieving a high consistency with professional experts and significantly improving the quality of Chinese Painting generation.

## Recorded benchmark results

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- [Painting Grading on HanMo-Bench](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/painting-grading-on-hanmo-bench.md>): Painting Grading; HanMo-Bench; MAE: 0.631.

## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10814>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.10814.pdf>)