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Flowcharts are graphical tools for representing complex concepts in concise visual representations. This paper introduces the FlowLearn dataset, a resource tailored to enhance the understanding of flowcharts. FlowLearn contains complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Huitong Pan , Qi Zhang , Cornelia Caragea , Eduard Dragut , Longin Jan Latecki

When people query Vision-Language Models (VLMs) but cannot see the accompanying visual context (e.g. for blind and low-vision users), augmenting VLM predictions with natural language explanations can signal which model predictions are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Keyu He , Tejas Srinivasan , Brihi Joshi , Xiang Ren , Jesse Thomason , Swabha Swayamdipta

Image classification is one of the most fundamental capabilities of machine vision intelligence. In this work, we revisit the image classification task using visually-grounded language models (VLMs) such as GPT-4V and LLaVA. We find that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yuhui Zhang , Alyssa Unell , Xiaohan Wang , Dhruba Ghosh , Yuchang Su , Ludwig Schmidt , Serena Yeung-Levy

Vision-Language Translation (VLT) is a challenging task that requires accurately recognizing multilingual text embedded in images and translating it into the target language with the support of visual context. While recent Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xintong Wang , Jingheng Pan , Yixiao Liu , Xiaohu Zhao , Chenyang Lyu , Minghao Wu , Chris Biemann , Longyue Wang , Linlong Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang

Recently, many versatile Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged continuously. However, their capacity to query information depicted in visual charts and engage in reasoning based on the queried contents remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Renqiu Xia , Bo Zhang , Hancheng Ye , Xiangchao Yan , Qi Liu , Hongbin Zhou , Zijun Chen , Peng Ye , Min Dou , Botian Shi , Junchi Yan , Yu Qiao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) leverage aligned visual encoders to transform images into visual tokens, allowing them to be processed similarly to text by the backbone large language model (LLM). This unified input paradigm enables VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bangzheng Li , Fei Wang , Wenxuan Zhou , Nan Xu , Ben Zhou , Sheng Zhang , Hoifung Poon , Muhao Chen

Vision-language models(VLMs) are increasingly applied to visual stock price forecasting, yet existing benchmarks inadequately evaluate their understanding of stock price in candlestick charts. First, prior studies fail to isolate VLMs'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kaiqi Hu , Linda Xiao , Shiyue Xu , Ziyi Tang , Mingwen Liu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have made substantial progress across a wide range of visual question answering benchmarks, spanning visual reasoning, document understanding, and multimodal dialogue. These improvements are evident in a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dhruba Ghosh , Yuhui Zhang , Ludwig Schmidt

Visualizations help communicate data insights, but deceptive data representations can distort their interpretation and propagate misinformation. While recent Vision Language Models (VLMs) perform well on many chart understanding tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Harsh Nishant Lalai , Raj Sanjay Shah , Hanspeter Pfister , Sashank Varma , Grace Guo

Vision language models (VLMs) are designed to extract relevant visuospatial information from images. Some research suggests that VLMs can exhibit humanlike scene understanding, while other investigations reveal difficulties in their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Sangeet Khemlani , Tyler Tran , Nathaniel Gyory , Anthony M. Harrison , Wallace E. Lawson , Ravenna Thielstrom , Hunter Thompson , Taaren Singh , J. Gregory Trafton

In this work, we introduce Mini-Gemini, a simple and effective framework enhancing multi-modality Vision Language Models (VLMs). Despite the advancements in VLMs facilitating basic visual dialog and reasoning, a performance gap persists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yanwei Li , Yuechen Zhang , Chengyao Wang , Zhisheng Zhong , Yixin Chen , Ruihang Chu , Shaoteng Liu , Jiaya Jia

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) building upon the foundation of powerful large language models have made rapid progress in reasoning across visual and textual data. While VLMs perform well on vision tasks that they are trained on, our results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zixuan Wu , Yoolim Kim , Carolyn Jane Anderson

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in multimodal tasks, yet they often struggle with visual arithmetic, seemingly simple capabilities like object counting or length comparison, which are essential for relevant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Can Qin , Haoyi Qiu , Philippe Laban , Shafiq Joty , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

Natural-language-to-visualization (NL2VIS) systems based on large language models (LLMs) have substantially improved the accessibility of data visualization. However, their further adoption is hindered by two coupled challenges: (i) the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Marko Hostnik , Rauf Kurbanov , Yaroslav Sokolov , Artem Trofimov

Large vision language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance on medical visual question answering benchmarks, yet their reliance on visual information remains unclear. We investigate whether frontier VLMs demonstrate genuine…

Cross-modal entity linking refers to the ability to align entities and their attributes across different modalities. While cross-modal entity linking is a fundamental skill needed for real-world applications such as multimodal code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Iñigo Alonso , Gorka Azkune , Ander Salaberria , Jeremy Barnes , Oier Lopez de Lacalle

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), they may over-rely on visual language priors existing in their training data rather than true visual reasoning. To investigate this, we introduce ViLP, a benchmark featuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tiange Luo , Ang Cao , Gunhee Lee , Justin Johnson , Honglak Lee

Accounting for individual differences can improve the effectiveness of visualization design. While the role of visual attention in visualization interpretation is well recognized, existing work often overlooks how this behavior varies based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Minsuk Chang , Yao Wang , Huichen Will Wang , Yuanhong Zhou , Andreas Bulling , Cindy Xiong Bearfield

Vision-language models (VLMs) are achieving increasingly strong performance on multimodal tasks. However, reasoning capabilities remain limited particularly for smaller VLMs, while those of large-language models (LLMs) have seen numerous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Victor Carbune , Hassan Mansoor , Fangyu Liu , Rahul Aralikatte , Gilles Baechler , Jindong Chen , Abhanshu Sharma

We introduce CHARTOM, a visual theory-of-mind benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models' capability to understand and reason about misleading data visualizations though charts. CHARTOM consists of carefully designed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shubham Bharti , Shiyun Cheng , Jihyun Rho , Jianrui Zhang , Mu Cai , Yong Jae Lee , Martina Rau , Xiaojin Zhu