diff --git a/evals/evaluation_llava.py b/evals/evaluation_llava.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/evals/evaluation_llava.py
@@ -0,0 +1,283 @@
+import argparse
+import csv
+import json
+import logging
+import os
+import pandas as pd
+import re
+
+from typing import Optional, Tuple, List, Dict
+
+logging.basicConfig(
+    format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s',
+    level=logging.INFO,
+    datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+
+def parse_arguments():
+    """
+    Parse command line arguments for the model evaluation script.
+    Returns:
+        argparse.Namespace: Parsed arguments containing evaluation configuration
+    """
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Evaluate model accuracy for llava models.')
+    parser.add_argument('--mode', choices=['tqa', 'vqa', 'vtqa'], default='tqa')
+    parser.add_argument('--output_folder', type=str, default='outputs/', help='Path to the directory containing model outputs.')
+    parser.add_argument('--dataset_id', type=str, default='MilaWang/SpatialEval', help='Dataset identifier for Hugging Face.')
+    parser.add_argument('--eval_summary_dir', type=str, default='eval_summary', help='Path to the directory to save evaluation summaries.')
+    parser.add_argument('--task', type=str, default='spatialgrid', choices=['all', 'spatialmap', 'mazenav', 'spatialgrid', 'spatialreal'], help='Task to evaluate.')
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    return args
+
+
+def extract_model_name(filename: str, suffix: str = "_w_reason.jsonl") -> Optional[str]:
+    """Extracts the model name from the filename."""
+    prefix = "m-"
+    if filename.startswith(prefix) and filename.endswith(suffix):
+        return filename[len(prefix):-len(suffix)]
+    return None
+
+
+def extract_available_options(prompt):
+    """
+    Extract multiple choice options from a prompt text.
+    Args:
+        prompt (str): The prompt text
+    
+    Returns:
+        list: List of tuples containing (letter, option_text) pairs
+              e.g., [('A', 'North'), ('B', 'South'), ('C', 'East'), ('D', 'West')]
+    """
+    # Match the full block starting with "Available options:"
+    # The pattern captures multiple lines of choices in format "A. Option text"
+    block_pattern = r"Available options:\n((?:\s*[A-Z]\s*\.\s*.*\n?\s*)+)" # choice fix
+    
+    block_match = re.search(block_pattern, prompt)
+    choices = []
+    if block_match:
+        block_text = block_match.group(1)
+        # Extract each individual choice with letter and text
+        # Pattern matches: "A. Some option text"
+        choice_pattern = r'([A-Z])\s*\.\s*(.*)\s*'
+        choices = re.findall(choice_pattern, block_text)
+    else:
+        logging.info("No match found when extracting `Available Options`")
+    
+    return choices
+
+
+def extract_answer(json_string, choices):
+    """
+    Extract the model's answer from its response text.
+    
+    This function handles multiple response formats:
+    1. Direct letter answers: "Answer: A"
+    2. Text answers that match choice options: "Answer: North"
+    3. Answers without explicit "Answer:" tag
+    
+    Args:
+        json_string (str): The model's complete response text
+        choices (list): List of available choice options from extract_available_options()
+    
+    Returns:
+        tuple: (answer_letter, answer_text, is_direct_answer)
+            - answer_letter: The extracted choice letter (A, B, C, etc.)
+            - answer_text: The extracted answer text
+            - is_direct_answer: Index if model gave direct text match, None otherwise
+    """
+    
+    # Find choice letters A, B, C etc and corresponding text for that letter.
+    letters = [x[0] for x in choices] # Example: ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']
+    choice_str = [re.sub(r'[^\w\s]|[\s]+$', '', x[1]) for x in choices]  # remove all trailing space and punctuation
+    choice_str_lower = [x.lower() for x in choice_str] # Lowercase for case-insensitive matching
+    min_choice, max_choice = min(letters), max(letters)
+
+    # Match everything except . and first extract everything after `Answer` tag
+    # `<A single letter option` is included since sometimes, 
+    # the model repeats the question during inference and the parser should not 
+    # consider that
+    pattern_answer = r"\**Answer\**\s*:\**\s*(?!<A single letter option)([^.\s$]+)"
+    match = re.search(pattern_answer, json_string, re.IGNORECASE)
+
+    if match:
+        answer_string = match.group(1)
+        answer_string = re.sub(r'[^\w\s]|[\s]+$', '', answer_string)  # remove all trailing space and punctuation
+    else:
+        answer_string = None
+
+
+    # Strict check:
+    # Models sometimes directly output `Answer: Southwest.` 
+    # instead of a choice letter.
+    # For such cases, we expect the model to predict the correct choice string
+    # if it's only going predict the choice string. So, rephrased answers will
+    # be tagged as non direct answer and parsing proceeds to else block
+    is_direct_answer = None
+    if answer_string is not None:
+        is_direct_answer = choice_str_lower.index(answer_string.lower()) if answer_string.lower() in choice_str_lower else None
+
+    if is_direct_answer is not None:
+        # This occurs when the model predicts the correct choice string
+        # Map back to the corresponding choice letter
+        answer_letter = letters[is_direct_answer]
+        answer_text = answer_string
+    else:
+        # Ignore the phrase from question, some models repeat question
+        # First check if there's an "Answer:" tag in the response
+        search_answer = re.search(r"\**Answer\**\s*:\**\s*(?!.*<A single letter option that best answers the question>).*", json_string, re.IGNORECASE)
+        if search_answer is None:
+            logging.info(f"No Answer tag found, match option directly")
+            optional_phrase = "the correct answer is"
+            # Find the pattern with choice letter and optional preceeding phrase string
+            # Match until \n or . or Reason is encountered
+            pattern = fr'(?:\b{optional_phrase}\b)*\s*\**([{min_choice}-{max_choice}])\s*\.?\s*(.*?)(?=\**Reason\**\b|\n|\.|$)\.?'
+        else:
+            # "Answer:" tag found, extract the choice letter after it
+            # Stop extraction when encountering "Reason:", newline, or period
+            pattern = fr'\**Answer\**\s*:\**\s*([{min_choice}-{max_choice}])\**\s*\.?\s*(.*?)(?=\**Reason\**\b|\n|\.|$)\.?'  
+        match = re.search(pattern, json_string, re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL)
+        if match:
+            answer_letter = match.group(1)  # The choice letter (A, B, C, etc.)
+            answer_text = match.group(2)    # Any additional text after the letter
+            logging.info(f"Found answer: {answer_letter} {answer_text}")
+        else:
+            logging.info("No match found for non direct answer")
+            answer_letter = answer_text = None
+    
+    return answer_letter, answer_text, is_direct_answer
+
+def extract_reason(json_string):
+    """
+    Extract the reasoning text from the model's response.
+    
+    Args:
+        json_string (str): The model's complete response text
+    
+    Returns:
+        str or None: The extracted reasoning text, or None if no reasoning found
+    """
+    # Pattern to match "Reason:" followed by the reasoning text
+    pattern = r"\**Reason\**\s*:*\**\s*(.*)\n?"
+    match = re.search(pattern, json_string, re.IGNORECASE)
+    return match.group(0) if match else None
+    
+    
+
+def evaluate_model_accuracy(model_output_path: str, eval_summary_path: str, model_name: Optional[str] = None) -> Tuple[float, int]:
+    """
+    Evaluate the accuracy of a model based on its output file.
+    
+    This function processes a JSONL file containing model responses, extracts answers,
+    compares them against ground truth, and calculates accuracy metrics.
+    
+    Args:
+        model_output_path (str): Path to the JSONL file containing model outputs
+        eval_summary_path (str): Path where evaluation summary will be saved
+        model_name (str, optional): Name of the model being evaluated
+    
+    Returns:
+        Tuple[float, int]: (accuracy_score, total_questions_processed)
+    """
+    eval_summary: List[Dict[str, str]] = []
+    correct_answers = 0
+    line_count = 0
+    
+    with open(model_output_path, "r") as f:
+        for line in f:
+            data = json.loads(line)
+            question_id = int(data["id"].split('.')[-1])
+            task = data["id"].split(".")[0]
+            id_q = data["id"]
+            logging.info(f"----- id: {id_q} -------")
+
+            line_count += 1
+            try:
+                # Extract the available multiple choice options from the prompt
+                choices = extract_available_options(data["prompt"])
+
+                # Parse the model's response to extract its answer
+                answer_letter, answer_text, is_direct_answer = extract_answer(data["answer"], choices)
+
+                # Extract any reasoning the model provided
+                reason = extract_reason(data["answer"])
+
+                # Get the ground truth answer and lower for comparison
+                ref_ans = str(data["oracle_option"]).lower()
+                logging.info(f"-- ref_answer: {ref_ans}")
+                logging.info(f"-- answer_letter: {answer_letter}, answer_text: {answer_text}, is_direct_answer: {is_direct_answer is not None}, is_direct_answer_idx: {is_direct_answer}")
+                logging.info(f"-- total_response: {data['answer']}")
+                logging.info(f"-- choices: {choices}")
+
+                # Compare model answer with ground truth
+                model_answer = answer_letter
+                if model_answer is not None:
+                    model_answer = str(model_answer).lower()
+                    # Note: only considers option, not the text after the choice
+                    eval_result = int(ref_ans == model_answer) 
+                else:
+                    eval_result = 0
+                    logging.info("--- No answer choice was extracted")
+
+                correct_answers += eval_result
+                eval_summary.append({
+                    "id": id_q,
+                    "ref": ref_ans, 
+                    "model_output": model_answer, 
+                    "eval_result": eval_result, 
+                    "is_direct_answer": is_direct_answer is not None,
+                    "choices": choices,
+                    "len_choices": len(choices),
+                    "oracle_full_answer": data["oracle_full_answer"], # Complete ground truth answer
+                    "oracle_answer": data["oracle_answer"], # Ground truth answer text
+                    "model_answer_text_extracted": answer_text, # Text extracted after "Answer:"
+                    "model_reason_text_extracted": reason, # Text extracted after "Reason:"
+                    "model_complete_response": data["answer"]  # Full model response
+                    
+                    })
+                logging.info(f"-----------------------\n\n")
+
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(e)
+                continue
+    
+    # Save evaluation results to CSV file
+    with open(eval_summary_path.replace(".jsonl", ".csv"), mode='w') as csv_file:
+        fieldnames = list(eval_summary[0].keys())
+        writer = csv.DictWriter(csv_file, fieldnames=fieldnames)
+        writer.writeheader()
+        writer.writerows(eval_summary)
+
+    return correct_answers / line_count if line_count > 0 else 0, line_count
+
+
+def main(args):
+    output_dir = os.path.join(args.output_dir, args.task)
+    output_csv = os.path.join(args.eval_summary_dir, f"{args.task}_acc.csv")
+
+    model_accuracies = []
+    for filename in os.listdir(output_dir):
+        if filename.endswith(".jsonl"):
+            model_name = extract_model_name(filename)
+            if model_name:
+                output_filename = os.path.join(output_dir, filename)
+                eval_summary_path = os.path.join(args.eval_summary_dir, f"{args.task}_{model_name}_eval_summary.jsonl")
+                accuracy, num_outputs = evaluate_model_accuracy(output_filename, eval_summary_path, model_name)
+                model_accuracies.append({'Model Name': model_name, f'Acc': accuracy})
+                logging.info(f"Parsed answers at {eval_summary_path}")
+                logging.info(f"-------- {args.task}: ACCURACY: {accuracy} -------")
+
+    df = pd.DataFrame(model_accuracies)
+    df_sorted = df.sort_values(by='Model Name', ascending=True)
+    df_sorted.to_csv(output_csv, index=False)
+    logging.info(f"{args.task} | {args.mode} | CSV file with model accuracies has been created at {output_csv}")
+    
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    args = parse_arguments()
+    args.output_folder = os.path.join(args.output_folder, args.dataset_id.replace("/", "__"))
+    args.output_dir = os.path.join(args.output_folder, args.mode)
+    args.eval_summary_dir = os.path.join(args.eval_summary_dir, args.mode)
+    os.makedirs(args.eval_summary_dir, exist_ok=True)
+
+    main(args)
diff --git a/inference_vlm.py b/inference_vlm.py
index 29d5328..90aacd2 100644
--- a/inference_vlm.py
+++ b/inference_vlm.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def main(args, model, processor, dataset, output_file_path):
                         prompt = format_bunny_vqa_prompt_hf(item['text'], args)
                 elif "qwen" or "cog" or "instructblip" or "llava" in args.model_path.lower() or "merged" in args.model_path.lower():
                     if args.w_reason:
-                        prompt = f"{item['text']}\nFirst, provide a concise answer in one sentence. Then, elaborate on the reasoning behind your answer in a detailed, step-by-step explanation."
+                        prompt = f"{item['text']}\nFirst, provide a single letter response that selects the option which best answers the question. Then, elaborate on the reasoning behind your answer in a detailed, step-by-step explanation. Please strictly format the final response as follows -- Answer: <A single letter option that best answers the question>.\nReason: <reasoning behind the answer>\nRead the question again:\n{item['text']}"
                     elif args.completion:
                         prompt = f"{item['text']}\nAnswer:"
                     else: