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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted for a variety of tasks with implicit graphical structures, such as planning in robotics, multi-hop question answering or knowledge probing, structured commonsense reasoning, and more.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Heng Wang , Shangbin Feng , Tianxing He , Zhaoxuan Tan , Xiaochuang Han , Yulia Tsvetkov

Although most current large multimodal models (LMMs) can already understand photos of natural scenes and portraits, their understanding of abstract images, e.g., charts, maps, or layouts, and visual reasoning capabilities remains quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenqi Zhang , Zhenglin Cheng , Yuanyu He , Mengna Wang , Yongliang Shen , Zeqi Tan , Guiyang Hou , Mingqian He , Yanna Ma , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

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

Recent advancements in large vision-language models (LVLMs) have led to significant progress in generating natural language descriptions for visual content and thus enhancing various applications. One issue with these powerful models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Mingyang Zhou , Hou Pong Chan , Yi R. Fung , Zhenhailong Wang , Lingyu Zhang , Shih-Fu Chang , Heng Ji

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) perform strongly on single-turn chart generation, their ability to support real-world exploratory data analysis remains underexplored. In practice, users iteratively refine visualizations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Manav Nitin Kapadnis , Lawanya Baghel , Atharva Naik , Carolyn Rosé

Chart summarization is a crucial task for blind and visually impaired individuals as it is their primary means of accessing and interpreting graphical data. Crafting high-quality descriptions is challenging because it requires precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Omar Moured , Jiaming Zhang , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Scientific fact-checking has mostly focused on text and tables, overlooking scientific charts, which are key for presenting quantitative evidence and statistical reasoning. We introduce ClimateViz, the first large-scale benchmark for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ruiran Su , Jiasheng Si , Zhijiang Guo , Janet B. Pierrehumbert

The coding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have opened up new opportunities for automatic statistical analysis in machine learning and data science. However, before their widespread adoption, it is crucial to assess the…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-26 Xinyi Song , Lina Lee , Kexin Xie , Xueying Liu , Xinwei Deng , Yili Hong

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are increasingly used for tasks where detecting multimodal harmful content is crucial, such as online content moderation. However, real-world harmful content is often camouflaged, relying on nuanced…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yanhui Li , Qi Zhou , Zhihong Xu , Huizhong Guo , Wenhai Wang , Dongxia Wang

As ChatGPT and GPT-4 spearhead the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), more researchers are investigating their performance across various tasks. But more research needs to be done on the interpretability capabilities of LLMs, that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Dongfang Li , Jindi Yu , Baotian Hu , Zhenran Xu , Min Zhang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have greatly improved code generation, specifically at the function level. For instance, GPT-4o has achieved a 91.0\% pass rate on HumanEval. However, this draws into question the adequacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jianbo Dai , Jianqiao Lu , Yunlong Feng , Guangtao Zeng , Rongju Ruan , Ming Cheng , Dong Huang , Haochen Tan , Zhijiang Guo

The capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have reached state-of-the-art on many visual reasoning tasks, including chart reasoning, yet they still falter on out-of-distribution (OOD) data, and degrade further when asked to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sanchit Sinha , Oana Frunza , Kashif Rasul , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Aidong Zhang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hold promise for accelerating scientific discovery by interpreting complex experimental procedures. However, their true capabilities are poorly understood, as existing benchmarks neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yicheng Xu , Yue Wu , Jiashuo Yu , Ziang Yan , Tianxiang Jiang , Yinan He , Qingsong Zhao , Kai Chen , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Manabu Okumura , Yi Wang

Large language model (LLM) research has grown rapidly, along with increasing concern about their limitations. In this survey, we conduct a data-driven, semi-automated review of research on limitations of LLMs (LLLMs) from 2022 to early 2025…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Aida Kostikova , Zhipin Wang , Deidamea Bajri , Ole Pütz , Benjamin Paaßen , Steffen Eger

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown promising reasoning capabilities on text-rich images from charts, tables, and documents. However, the abundant text within such images may increase the model's sensitivity to language.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xinmiao Yu , Xiaocheng Feng , Yun Li , Minghui Liao , Ya-Qi Yu , Xiachong Feng , Weihong Zhong , Ruihan Chen , Mengkang Hu , Jihao Wu , Dandan Tu , Duyu Tang , Bing Qin

In this paper, we test whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can match human-subject performance in tasks involving the perception of properties in network layouts. Specifically, we replicate a human-subject experiment about…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jacob Miller , Markus Wallinger , Ludwig Felder , Timo Brand , Henry Förster , Johannes Zink , Chunyang Chen , Stephen Kobourov

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in various natural language tasks, often achieving performances that surpass those of humans. Despite these advancements, the domain of mathematics presents a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ankit Satpute , Noah Giessing , Andre Greiner-Petter , Moritz Schubotz , Olaf Teschke , Akiko Aizawa , Bela Gipp

Motivational interviewing (MI) promotes behavioural change in substance use disorders. Its fidelity is measured using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) framework. While large language models (LLMs) can potentially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Aishwariya Jha , Prakrithi Shivaprakash , Lekhansh Shukla , Animesh Mukherjee , Prabhat Chand , Pratima Murthy

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

A number of tasks have been proposed recently to facilitate easy access to charts such as chart QA and summarization. The dominant paradigm to solve these tasks has been to fine-tune a pretrained model on the task data. However, this…

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