@article{beitscorereferencefreeimagecaptioningeva,
  title = {BEiTScore: Reference-free Image Captioning Evaluation with an Efficient Cross-Encoder Model},
  author = {Gonçalo Gomes and Bruno Martins and Chrysoula Zerva},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.21728},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21728},
}