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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities across modalities such as images and text. However, tabular data, despite being a critical real-world modality, remains relatively underexplored in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kun-Yang Yu , Zhi Zhou , Shi-Yu Tian , Xiao-Wen Yang , Zi-Yi Jia , Ming Yang , Zi-Jian Cheng , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

In this work, we address question answering (QA) over a hybrid of tabular and textual data that are very common content on the Web (e.g. SEC filings), where discrete reasoning capabilities are often required. Recently, large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Fengbin Zhu , Ziyang Liu , Fuli Feng , Chao Wang , Moxin Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Tabular reasoning involves interpreting natural language queries about tabular data, which presents a unique challenge of combining language understanding with structured data analysis. Existing methods employ either textual reasoning,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Nikhil Abhyankar , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth , Chandan K. Reddy

Recently, Vision Language Models (VLMs) have increasingly emphasized document visual grounding to achieve better human-computer interaction, accessibility, and detailed understanding. However, its application to visualizations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Alexander Vogel , Omar Moured , Yufan Chen , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Reasoning about information from multiple parts of a passage to derive an answer is an open challenge for reading-comprehension models. In this paper, we present an approach that reasons about complex questions by decomposing them to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hadeel Al-Negheimish , Pranava Madhyastha , Alessandra Russo

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses frequently require numerical data that authors report only as figures, yet manual digitisation is slow and does not scale. We present PlotPick, an open-source tool that uses vision-language models (VLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tommy Carstensen

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have attracted increasing research attention due to their powerful visual understanding capabilities. While they have achieved impressive results on various vision tasks, their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengzhi Xu , Yuyang Wang , Lai Wei , Lichao Sun , Weiran Huang

While the recent Chain-of-Thought (CoT) technique enhances the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) with the theory of mind, it might still struggle in handling logical reasoning that relies much on symbolic expressions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jundong Xu , Hao Fei , Liangming Pan , Qian Liu , Mong-Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

Nowadays, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been gradually employed to solve complex tasks. To face the challenge, task decomposition has become an effective way, which proposes to divide a complex task into multiple simpler subtasks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yiliu Sun , Yanfang Zhang , Zicheng Zhao , Sheng Wan , Dacheng Tao , Chen Gong

Despite the significant improvements achieved by large language models (LLMs) in English reasoning tasks, these models continue to struggle with multilingual reasoning. Recent studies leverage a full-parameter and two-stage training…

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Table reasoning, which aims to generate the corresponding answer to the question following the user requirement according to the provided table, and optionally a text description of the table, effectively improving the efficiency of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Xuanliang Zhang , Dingzirui Wang , Longxu Dou , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

Building cross-model intelligence that can understand charts and communicate the salient information hidden behind them is an appealing challenge in the vision and language(V+L) community. The capability to uncover the underlined table data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mingyang Zhou , Yi R. Fung , Long Chen , Christopher Thomas , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Bar charts are an effective way to convey numeric information, but today's algorithms cannot parse them. Existing methods fail when faced with even minor variations in appearance. Here, we present DVQA, a dataset that tests many aspects of…

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Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown significant progress in mathematical reasoning, yet they still face a critical bottleneck with problems requiring visual assistance, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chengqi Duan , Kaiyue Sun , Rongyao Fang , Manyuan Zhang , Yan Feng , Ying Luo , Yufang Liu , Ke Wang , Peng Pei , Xunliang Cai , Hongsheng Li , Yi Ma , Xihui Liu

Charts are very popular to analyze data and convey important insights. People often analyze visualizations to answer open-ended questions that require explanatory answers. Answering such questions are often difficult and time-consuming as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shankar Kantharaj , Xuan Long Do , Rixie Tiffany Ko Leong , Jia Qing Tan , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Chart understanding enables automated data analysis for humans, which requires models to achieve highly accurate visual comprehension. While existing Visual Language Models (VLMs) have shown progress in chart understanding, the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Muye Huang , Han Lai , Xinyu Zhang , Wenjun Wu , Jie Ma , Lingling Zhang , Jun Liu

Table reasoning is a challenging task that requires understanding both natural language questions and structured tabular data. Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid , Davood Rafiei

Data visualizations are central to scientific communication, journalism, and everyday decision-making, yet they are frequently prone to errors that can distort interpretation or mislead audiences. Rule-based visualization linters can flag…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Valentin Bonas , Martin Sinnona , Viviana Siless , Emmanuel Iarussi

The current remote sensing image analysis task is increasingly evolving from traditional object recognition to complex intelligence reasoning, which places higher requirements on the model's reasoning ability and the flexibility of tool…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Chujie Wang , Zhiyuan Luo , Ruiqi Liu , Can Ran , Shenghua Fan , Xi Chen , Chu He

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in chart understanding, largely driven by supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on increasingly large synthetic datasets. However, scaling SFT data alone is inefficient and…

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