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# LMMs-Eval

**What:** Evaluation toolkit for multimodal models.

**Why:** Measures how close you are to the frontier.

**Category:** Evals & benchmarks · **Stack layer:** tools

## Status

Catalog entry. Existence and repo metadata checked 2026-10-15 via the GitHub API. Install commands below are auto-extracted from the README and have NOT been executed or verified. Read the README before running anything; prefer a sandbox or venv.

## Install (unverified)

1. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed

```bash
git clone https://github.com/EvolvingLMMs-Lab/lmms-eval.git
```

2. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed

```bash
uv pip install git+https://github.com/EvolvingLMMs-Lab/lmms-eval.git
```

3. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed

```bash
conda install openjdk=8
```

4. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed

```bash
pip install s2wrapper@git+https://github.com/bfshi/scaling_on_scales
```

## Verify

No verified check yet. Minimum: the install command exits 0 and the tool's own help/version flag runs (exact flag: see README).

## Rollback (unverified)

1. source: derived inverse of install command

```bash
rm -rf lmms-eval
```

2. source: derived inverse of install command

```bash
pip uninstall -y s2wrapper@git+https://github.com/bfshi/scaling_on_scales
```

## Links

- Homepage: https://www.lmms-lab.com
- Repo: https://github.com/EvolvingLMMs-Lab/lmms-eval
- README: https://github.com/EvolvingLMMs-Lab/lmms-eval#readme