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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive abilities across various tasks, including visual question answering and chart comprehension, yet existing benchmarks for chart-related tasks fall short in capturing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zifeng Zhu , Mengzhao Jia , Zhihan Zhang , Lang Li , Meng Jiang

Solving complex chart Q&A tasks requires advanced visual reasoning abilities in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), including recognizing key information from visual inputs and conducting reasoning over it. While fine-tuning MLLMs for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei He , Zhiheng Xi , Wanxu Zhao , Xiaoran Fan , Yiwen Ding , Zifei Shan , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

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

We propose a novel framework that leverages Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to automate the evaluation of LLM-generated data visualizations. Traditional evaluation methods often rely on human judgment, which is costly and unscalable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 James Ford , Xingmeng Zhao , Dan Schumacher , Anthony Rios

Charts are a crucial visual medium for communicating and representing information. While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have made progress on chart question answering (CQA), the task remains challenging, particularly when models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ali Salamatian , Amirhossein Abaskohi , Wan-Cyuan Fan , Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Leonid Sigal , Giuseppe Carenini

Chart question answering (ChartQA) tasks play a critical role in interpreting and extracting insights from visualization charts. While recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) like GPT-4o have shown promise in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yifan Wu , Lutao Yan , Leixian Shen , Yunhai Wang , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Designers often create visualizations to achieve specific high-level analytical or communication goals. These goals require people to extract complex and interconnected data patterns. Prior perceptual studies of visualization effectiveness…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hyotaek Jeon , Hyunwook Lee , Minjeong Shin , Tapendra Pandey , Joohee Kim , Shinwook Seon , Daeun Jeong , Sungahn Ko , Ghulam Jilani Quadri

Visualizations play a pivotal role in daily communication in an increasingly data-driven world. Research on multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for automated chart understanding has accelerated massively, with steady improvements on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jonathan Tonglet , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens , Iryna Gurevych

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promising capabilities in interpreting visualized graph data, offering a new perspective for graph-structured reasoning beyond traditional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Qihang Ai , Ruizhou Li , Menghui Wang , Haiyun Jiang

Despite the promising results of large multimodal models (LMMs) in complex vision-language tasks that require knowledge, reasoning, and perception abilities together, we surprisingly found that these models struggle with simple tasks on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Kai Zhang , Jianwei Yang , Jeevana Priya Inala , Chandan Singh , Jianfeng Gao , Yu Su , Chenglong Wang

Data visualization in the form of charts plays a pivotal role in data analysis, offering critical insights and aiding in informed decision-making. Automatic chart understanding has witnessed significant advancements with the rise of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Hou Pong Chan , Yi R. Fung , Haoyi Qiu , Mingyang Zhou , Shafiq Joty , Shih-Fu Chang , Heng Ji

Visualizations, such as charts, are crucial for interpreting complex data. However, they are often provided as raster images, which are not compatible with assistive technologies for people with blindness and visual impairments, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Omar Moured , Sara Alzalabny , Anas Osman , Thorsten Schwarz , Karin Muller , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Table summarization is a crucial task aimed at condensing information from tabular data into concise and comprehensible textual summaries. However, existing approaches often fall short of adequately meeting users' information and quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Weijia Zhang , Vaishali Pal , Jia-Hong Huang , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate promising chart comprehension capabilities. Yet, prior explorations of their visualization literacy have been limited to assessing their response correctness and fail to explore their internal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Lianghan Dong , Anamaria Crisan

Emerging multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit great potential for chart question answering (CQA). Recent efforts primarily focus on scaling up training datasets (i.e., charts, data tables, and question-answer (QA) pairs) through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Xingchen Zeng , Haichuan Lin , Yilin Ye , Wei Zeng

This paper evaluates the visualization literacy of modern Large Language Models (LLMs) and introduces a novel prompting technique called Charts-of-Thought. We tested three state-of-the-art LLMs (Claude-3.7-sonnet, GPT-4.5 preview, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Amit Kumar Das , Mohammad Tarun , Klaus Mueller

Understanding charts requires models to jointly reason over geometric visual patterns, structured numerical data, and natural language -- a capability where current vision-language models (VLMs) remain limited. We introduce ChartNet, a…

Automated data visualization plays a crucial role in simplifying data interpretation, enhancing decision-making, and improving efficiency. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating visualizations from natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mizanur Rahman , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Shafiq Joty , Enamul Hoque

Graphs are a powerful tool for representing and analyzing complex relationships in real-world applications such as social networks, recommender systems, and computational finance. Reasoning on graphs is essential for drawing inferences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Bahare Fatemi , Jonathan Halcrow , Bryan Perozzi

The increasing integration of Visual Language Models (VLMs) into visualization systems demands a comprehensive understanding of their visual interpretation capabilities and constraints. While existing research has examined individual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Saugat Pandey , Alvitta Ottley