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Visual Question Answering (VQA) has become an important benchmark for assessing how large multimodal models (LMMs) interpret images. However, most VQA datasets focus on real-world images or simple diagrammatic analysis, with few focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jill P. Naiman , Daniel J. Evans , JooYoung Seo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable ability in solving complex tasks, making them a promising tool for enhancing tabular learning. However, existing LLM-based methods suffer from high resource requirements, suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Ruxue Shi , Hengrui Gu , Xu Shen , Xin Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are reshaping how modern agentic systems reason over sequential user-behavior data. However, whether textual or image representations of user behavior data are more effective for maximizing MLLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Tianning Dong , Luyi Ma , Varun Vasudevan , Jason Cho , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

Chart comprehension presents significant challenges for machine learning models due to the diverse and intricate shapes of charts. Existing multimodal methods often overlook these visual features or fail to integrate them effectively for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Hanwen Zheng , Sijia Wang , Chris Thomas , Lifu Huang

Chart question answering (CQA) has become a critical multimodal task for evaluating the reasoning capabilities of vision-language models. While early approaches have shown promising performance by focusing on visual features or leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jingxuan Wei , Nan Xu , Junnan Zhu , Yanni Hao , Gaowei Wu , Bihui Yu , Lei Wang

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

Correct answers do not necessarily reflect cultural understanding. We introduce CRaFT, an explanation-based multilingual evaluation framework designed to assess how large language models (LLMs) reason across cultural contexts. Rather than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shehenaz Hossain , Haithem Afli

This paper proposes to improve visual question answering (VQA) with structured representations of both scene contents and questions. A key challenge in VQA is to require joint reasoning over the visual and text domains. The predominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Damien Teney , Lingqiao Liu , Anton van den Hengel

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

As the performance of Large-scale Vision Language Models (LVLMs) improves, they are increasingly capable of responding in multiple languages, and there is an expectation that the demand for explanations generated by LVLMs will grow.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Shintaro Ozaki , Kazuki Hayashi , Yusuke Sakai , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Katsuhiko Hayashi , Taro Watanabe

Learning to fuse vision and language information and representing them is an important research problem with many applications. Recent progresses have leveraged the ideas of pre-training (from language modeling) and attention layers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Bowen Zhang , Hexiang Hu , Vihan Jain , Eugene Ie , Fei Sha

Although great progress has been made by previous table understanding methods including recent approaches based on large language models (LLMs), they rely heavily on the premise that given tables must be converted into a certain text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Mingyu Zheng , Xinwei Feng , Qingyi Si , Qiaoqiao She , Zheng Lin , Wenbin Jiang , Weiping Wang

Stochastic sampling strategies are widely adopted in large language models (LLMs) to balance output coherence and diversity. These heuristics are often inherited in Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) without task-specific justification. However, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Boqi Chen , Xudong Liu , Yunke Ao , Jianing Qiu

With the advent of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), datasets used for visual question answering (VQA) and referring expression comprehension have seen a resurgence. However, the most popular datasets used to evaluate MLLMs are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jian Lu , Shikhar Srivastava , Junyu Chen , Robik Shrestha , Manoj Acharya , Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

While table understanding increasingly relies on pixel-only settings, current benchmarks predominantly use synthetic renderings that lack the complexity and visual diversity of real-world tables. Additionally, existing visual table…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Iñigo Alonso , Imanol Miranda , Eneko Agirre , Mirella Lapata

Open-source multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel in various tasks involving textual and visual inputs but still struggle with complex multimodal mathematical reasoning, lagging behind proprietary models like GPT-4V(ision) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Mengzhao Jia , Zhihan Zhang , Wenhao Yu , Fangkai Jiao , Meng Jiang

Integrating large language models (LLMs) with knowledge graphs derived from domain-specific data represents an important advancement towards more powerful and factual reasoning. As these models grow more capable, it is crucial to enable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Stefan Dernbach , Khushbu Agarwal , Alejandro Zuniga , Michael Henry , Sutanay Choudhury

Table Visual Question Answering (Table VQA) is typically addressed by large vision-language models (VLMs). While such models can answer directly from images, they often miss fine-grained details unless scaled to very large sizes, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Guo Yutong , Wanying Wang , Yue Wu , Zichen Miao , Haoyu Wang

Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various VQA tasks. However, they often lack interpretability and struggle with complex visual inputs, especially when the resolution of the input image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hao Shao , Shengju Qian , Han Xiao , Guanglu Song , Zhuofan Zong , Letian Wang , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Visual Question answering is a challenging problem requiring a combination of concepts from Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. Most existing approaches use a two streams strategy, computing image and question features that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Will Norcliffe-Brown , Efstathios Vafeias , Sarah Parisot